Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

[Marius Bakke]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Hello Guix!
>>> 
>>> Looks like there’s been a disk space issue a few days ago that’s now
>>> solved, so I’ve restarted an evaluation of the “core” subset.
>>> 
>>> Is there any blocker left or should we move forward after that?
>>
>> Let's also decide what to do about GRUB. I updated it originally because
>> something (I forgot what) failed to build without a newer GRUB.
>
> I think you meant "flex" here.
>
> According to https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/162 , this commit
> should fix the grub issue:
>
> https://github.com/westes/flex/commit/f5d87f1a26f4a5c3402497008ae10e9a1345d327
>
> Seeing as wireshark is apparently also affected according to the
> upstream bug, I would suggest applying this fix on our flex package.

Another option is to keep version 2.6.2 around, which is better than a
specialized "flex-for-grub". If the previous version works for both grub
and wireshark, I prefer this alternative.

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