Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > 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’.
I must say, the GNOME 3.30 changes haven't been pushed to core-updates yet. There were a number of issues with the updated GNOME desktop as I last built it. For example, the displayed time was incorrect, and the "night light" feature didn't work. Other issues included failing tests that I couldn't figure out and just disabled to get the building to finish. If people would like to see my progress, I can send a patch series to the guix-patches list, but working on this alone has been a slow process thanks to the long rebuilds that come from working on this branch. I'd rather not push a partially-working GNOME, but I also don't want to hinder the merging of core-updates, so please let me know what course of action is preferred here. Thanks, Kei
