Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.61.0.

[Eric Bavier]

On 2016-09-22 16:16, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> > > boost has quite a few dependencies, as Ricardo already pointed out, 
> > > and in my
> > > experience tends to be a bit fragile. So maybe the best option would 
> > > be to
> > > create a boost-update branch and have it built on hydra to see 
> > > whether there
> > > are problems. It not, one could then cherry-pick the commit to 
> > > master.
> >
> > I replied before reading all the messages in that thread. Of course if 
> > Eric
> > has tried the commit locally and tested that nothing breaks, this 
> > could be
> > pushed to master directly.
>
> Should this not be pushed to core-updates? `guix refresh -l` reports:
>
> Building the following 190 packages would ensure 395 dependent packages
> are rebuilt: [...]

That's kind of on the edge of what's acceptable for master, as long as 
hydra isn't already overloaded, which it wasn't in this case.

> That will take a while on Hydra, and in the mean time anyone trying to
> install any dependent (or sub-dependent) package will have to compile
> them locally.

It's already finished rebuilding those dependents.

> Unless there is a security issue, isn't this exactly what core-updates
> is for?

Indeed, but for security updates grafts are preferable.

> Is `guix refresh recursive`?

Yes.

--
`~Eric