Re: core-updates frozen!

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:02:04AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Once these changes are pushed, I'll start a new evaluation:
>> >
>> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00063.html
>> >
>> > Please, no more rebuild the world changes except to fix breakage in the
>> > core packages.
>> 
>> address@hidden was *just* released[0] and contains some important
>> bug fixes (notably CVE-2017-2624).
>> 
>> [0] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-March/002779.html
>
> It looks like a relatively small set of changes.
>
>> AFAICT it has not been built yet on Hydra since it's not part of the
>> "core" package set. Is it okay to push?
>
> xorg-server is not a core package, so I guess it's fine. I'll do the
> update when pushing the libgd changes from the thread linked above.

Note that 1.19.3 will be released shortly since 1.19.2 had a release bug
that requires running `autoreconf`. See:

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-March/002780.html

> I've been reconfiguring my GuixSD system on core-updates, so I've fixed
> and then suffered breakage in a few non-core packages so far :)

Wow, nice :)

> At some arbitrary point we have to stop changing the branch and just
> build it. Newer important updates will have to be grafted.

Agreed. Let's do a full evaluation once Hydra settles down and then
*really* freeze it ;)

>> Unfortunately I have not been able to backport the fix to 1.18.4.
>
> Okay, hopefully we can figure it out or copy from another distro.

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