Hi Maxim et al, On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 11:12 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hello Guix! > > The core-updates branch is still alive, and has accumulated (or plans > to) a few changes that cause world-rebuilds, such as fixes to > git-minimal (bug#65924) as well as docbook improvements (bug#65479) and > fixes to the build systems so that deep input rewriting works as > intended (bug#65665). > > I think we could also batch ungrafting of all grafted packages, to make > the most out of this complete rebuild. > That sounds good, we have suddenly got a bunch of grafts deep in the dependency tree. Speaking of which, I was planning to at least ungraft libx11 and libxpm, recipients of recent grafts for security reasons, on a forthcoming mesa-updates branch. I'm just waiting for the next point release of mesa, since 23.2.1 is actually the first release where typically a first .1 release is considered the start of the stable series. (Though 23.2 has had a long release candidate time.) So, what are we thinking of the time to build/merge core-updates? I was hoping to do some ungrafting and updating in the mesa-related ecosystem this week, depending on upstream. I'll start a separate thread soon to ask for what patches to include there that I don't already know about, but I'm happy to include similar scope ungrafting if that makes sense before core-updates. What does everyone think? I think it is more a question of timing/resources, either doing some ungrafting earlier but then having more builds again soon after (e.g. glibc ungraft), or knocking some of it out earlier with a smaller scope. > To recall, the policy surrounding what goes to core-updates is still > unchanged (per the Contributing section of our manual), except for areas > covered by teams (which is still patchy at best -- have you considered > joining teams?) > And thanks for pointing this out. I do hope we continue building teams and scopes for them so core-updates doesn't end up getting too unwieldy. I'm optimistic of a quicker merge timeline here as well, the ungrafting being a nice immediate reason to do this. > What do you think? If you are interested in participating in the > effort, you can send your ungrafting patches for review with the > --subject-prefix='PATCH core-updates' prefix or if you are a committer > you could simple version bumps to core tools that have been posted to > guix-patches, if any. Thanks Maxim for getting things rolling here! John
