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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:59:39PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I guess it could be called ‘xorg-server-1.9.12’ and technically inherit
>> from ‘xorg-server’ but override the version and source.
>
> I've attached patches updating xorg-server and creating a special
> package to be used for building GTK+.
>
> From 5e6cc8caaf7de4d8863f8f4ab64d8c9e7cbbfcaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 13:44:48 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: xorg-server: Update to 1.19.2 [fixes CVE-2017-2624].
>
> * gnu/packages/xorg.scm (xorg-server): Update to 1.19.2.
> [native-inputs]: Add font-util, libtool, autoconf, and automake.
> [arguments]: Add 'bootstrap' phase.

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> From 3601571063aa0317720d19d83f1cb42745abd5f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:40:37 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: gtk+: Build GTK+ with its own xorg-server package.
>
> This will allow us to update xorg-server directly on the master branch.
>
> * gnu/packages/xorg.scm (xorg-server-1.19.2): New variable.
> * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (gtk+) [native-inputs]: Use xorg-server-1.19.2 instead 
> of
> xorg-server.
> (arguments): Add xorg-server-1.19.2 to #:disallowed-references.
  ^ square brackets  :-)

Both LGTM.

After that I think we can start building all the packages on Hydra,
right?

Thank you!

Ludo’.