Hi John, John Kehayias <john.kehay...@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hi Guix-ers, > > Time for another round of Mesa and friends updates! I've been waiting > for another Mesa release but seems the 23.2 series has stalled out and > now is a good time before 23.3 or 24. I've been using 23.2.1 for some > packages locally without issue. I would like to get this branch built > and then promptly merged, assuming no showstoppers. Actually, probably > just cherry-pick since it is should just be a few commits and I find > that cleaner, personally (but happy for advice here). If you're going to put a branch for it and build it whole, I'd simply merge it whole after it's done building and hasn't regressed on package failures or other things. > There's already a CI build job and I'll submit the request to merge > for hopefully QA to compare. I will also do some ungrafting. Maxim, > I'm CC'ing you since you mentioned the core-updates cycle about to > happen, so if this branch takes some time maybe we'll be better off > just combining. Let me know. Otherwise I hope to have the branch > building in a few days and then let it churn. I'd say go for a branch! > Here is a list of what has been on my radar and I'll be looking to > apply on the mesa-updates branch. If there's something I missed and > you think makes sense here (e.g. lower level graphical/X related > libraries) please let me know. And yes, I need to make a Mesa team. It > is on my list! > > 1. ungraft libx11 and libxpm > > 2. update mesa (23.2.1) > > 3. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65375> (libepoxy fix for GTK, see > <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64981>) > > 4. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65155> (mesa vulkan search-paths) > > 5. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65153> (sdl2 vulkan-loader; and update sdl2?) > > 6. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64637> (libdrm update; to even newer version > now) > > 7. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66727> (libxkbcommon update) > > 8. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64639> (pixman update) > > 9. submit patch for mesa team > > Thanks everyone! And when you see the updates pushed on mesa-updates > and builds become available, please do test and let me know. Or if > you'd like to join this team of one, happy to have you on board. Sounds like a fine plan! Thank you for tackling this! -- Thanks, Maxim
