[packman] too much updates

[Herbert Graeber]

Am Freitag, 28. März 2014, 19:08:31 schrieb Dmitriy Perlow:
> Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet at free.fr>  Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:00:53
> 
> +0300:
> > Le 28/03/2014 16:26, Martin Schlander a écrit :
> >> Fredag den 28. marts 2014 11:40:07 skrev Hendrik Vogelsang:
> >>> On 27.03.2014 17:21, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> >>>> The alternative would be to have separate
> >>>> projects for each release and linking the Packman packages to the
> >>>> corresponding Packages in stable releases on OBS
> >>> 
> >>> One of the main reasons for having Packman is to provide updates to the
> >>> latest and greatest versions of various packages....
> >> 
> >> I guess the problem is not so much the "real" updates, but all the
> >> rebuilds
> >> with little or no changes.
> > 
> > Don't we have a build-compare script enabled to not trigger unnecessary
> > rebuilds?
> > 
> > 
> > Guillaume
> 
> We have, see
> https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/live_build_log?arch=x86_64&package=QMPla
> y2&project=Multimedia&repository=openSUSE_13.1 f.e.

Includings build-compare in the project is not enough. Packages must be 
cleaned from using the build time via __DATE__ and __TIME__. That can be done 
by replacing those by the modification of the *.changes file. For an example 
look into the mythtv spec files.

Herbert