Hello! Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis:
> The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time. Yay! > This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently > representing 433 commits from 15 people, with commits dating back to > September last year(!). Ouch! This is both impressive and… frightening. :-) > Some of the highlights from this branch include: > > * jannekes long-awaited new reduced binary seeds for i686 and x86_64 > * GCC7 is now the default compiler > * The 'CMake' package comes with full documentation > * OpenSSL 1.1 is now the default 'openssl' package > * GNOME 3.30 > * glibc 2.29, binutils 2.32, gettext 0.20, bash 5.0.7, gawk 5.0.1, ... Exciting! > To give everyone a little time to brush up any last-minute patches, as > well as let the CI catch up with 'master' and 'staging', I suggest we > set a final date for starting the full CI build on *July 9th*, i.e six > days from now. At which point the branch becomes bugfix-only, no new > updates or features. > > July 9th incidentally gives us just enough time to get Python 3.7.4 too, > which comes with desirable security and OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility fixes. July 9th is now behind us, where are we? I’m currently running: guix pull --branch=core-updates -p /tmp/core-updates so I can give it a shot with my profile and my system. Is there anything people should pay attention to, or any specific tests we should make? Thank you! Ludo’.
