Hello Guix! Several of us have been fiddling with the ‘core-updates’ branch for a while. I think there’s now consensus that the branch is really dedicated to core packages and (guix build …) modules, as embodied in the new ‘core-packages’ team¹.
We’ve updated GCC 11.x, glibc, binutils, and various packages from (gnu packages base). Notable exceptions are Coreutils, Findutils, sed, and tar; I tried but that’s a bit more work, notably because their variants in commencement.scm would no longer build because their build scripts use sed patterns not supported by Gash-Utils. Long story short: I’d like us to freeze and merge the branch ASAP, notably because the glibc graft on ‘master’ leads to a bad user experience. I’m happy with the current state of the branch and wouldn’t mind postponing remaining upgrades for the next cycle. Thoughts? Remaining work includes: checking that cross-compilation targets still work after the recent Binutils updates, checking i586-gnu (GNU/Hurd) and other platforms, and possibly addressing the Gawk non-determinism issue². Currently package subsets are built here: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/core-updates https://guix.bordeaux.inria.fr/jobset/guix-core-updates I don’t think I can commit to coordinating the stabilization effort though as I’m busy with other things this month. Would anyone like to take the lead on this? Happy updating! Ludo’. ¹ https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67880 ² https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68378
