Re: core-updates, next release, and all that

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 01/09/16 05:33, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 28/07/16 19:31, Andreas Enge wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > the main failures that remain on x86 are related to the gmime problem fixed
> > > in master. So I merged master once again and will start another evaluation
> > > of core-updates. Probably we are done then.
> > >
> > > There is a little problem with some source that cannot be downloaded:
> > >      http://hydra.gnu.org:3000/build/1327453
> > > If this has not been fixed in master yet, maybe the bioinformatics people
> > > would like to have a look.
> > Fixed in 'f2e791750'. This was another case of BioConductor deleting out
> > of date sources, and more encouragement to move to SVN as discussed
> > previously.
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00683.html
> Yeah, I really feel guilty each time I tell people here that Guix helps
> with reproducibility — and then I remember Bioconductor and have to add
> a footnote…
It isn't so bad with content addressed mirrors now of course, this was a 
special case with hydra itself going down.

> I have already rewritten a Bioconductor package locally to test this.
> It shouldn’t take very long to move to SVN, but I just haven’t found the
> time so far.  Maybe after the recursive importer is merged I’ll be able
> to make time to adjust the importer and existing Bioconductor packages.
Excellent.

ben