Welcome back to our blog series about the evolution of mass-prebuild. In our first post in 2022, we introduced this powerful open source tool designed for streamlining package builds across multiple architectures and Linux distributions. This article continues that journey, exploring how mass-prebuild has been continually refined, improved, and grown in response to user feedback and technological advancements. By Frédéric Bérat.
The Mass Prebuilder (MPB) is a set of tools aimed to help the user to create mass rebuilds around a limited set of packages, in order to assess the stability of a given update.
This article also describes:
- Recap: What is mass-prebuild?
- Navigating the path to stability: The early days of mass-prebuild
- Expanding horizons, accelerating growth: Innovations and upgrades
- Bug fixes, enhancements, and new features: The continued evolution
- A milestone with GCC 14: Uncovering critical issues through comprehensive rebuilds
Throughout its remarkable evolution, mass-prebuild has become an indispensable tool to assess the stability of a given component update. By incorporating numerous improvements, updates, bug fixes, and new features, it has solidified its position as a vital resource within the open-source community. Yet, there will be some improvement coming for the tool. An example of this is the backends. The mass-prebuild currently supports COPR and mock for the builds, support for Koji is still not yet integrated and will be part of a future release. Interesting read for any open-source builder!
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