On Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 at 1:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Hello Guix! > > I’d like to propose merging ‘core-updates’ real soon, say by next week, > Friday 30th. Woohoo! I look forward to it. My thanks and congratulations to all who helped with 'core-updates'! :) > > > But first, this branch started about a year ago (!), and it’s hard for > someone who’s not following IRC 7 days a week to figure out what the > status is—something we should definitely improve on. > > An overview in terms of package coverage can be found here: > > https://qa.guix.gnu.org/branch/core-updates > > To view “blocking builds” (packages that fail to build and thus “block” > all those that depend on it), say for i686-linux, see: > > https://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/revision/aab1fe98574e1cd4c7911c1e5571b3733fb71d67/blocking-builds?system=i686-linux&target=none&limit_results=50 > > or run: > > ./pre-inst-env guix weather -s i686-linux -c 200 > > from a ‘core-updates’ checkout. This gives an idea where to focus our > efforts. You can also browse individual ci.guix builds at: > > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/latest/dashboard?spec=core-updates > > Currently, we’re at ~95% on x86_64-linux, 80–90% on the other *-linux > systems, and ~2% on i586-gnu (GNU/Hurd; that’s more or less where we > were before.) Note that ci.guix is still struggling with aarch64-linux > build and hasn’t even attempted armhf-linux builds, but bordeaux.guix is > doing well. > > I’m aware of at least one important issue that prevents use of Guix > System on i686-linux: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72725 > > To me, that’s the last blocker, even though there’s room for improvement > here and there (for instance, FFmpeg currently fails to build on > i686-linux). My three 'core-updates' patches (which thank you for sprucing the remaining two up and committing them!) were from me addressing the main build failures I encountered while building my system and home configs against core-updates: wine64 and wine64-staging not building due to their dependence on the 32-bit (i686-linux) wine and wine-staging packages--the three patches fixed the wine64 build for me, although building wine-staging (for wine64-staging) hit the FFmpeg build failure. After two weeks of bisecting, I tracked it down to commit 8025d419db which updates binutils from 2.38 to 2.41. I haven't figured out how to address the bug but it seems to be from a change between 2.38 and 2.39, as I also found a Gentoo bug report hitting the same FFmpeg build error (https://bugs.gentoo.org/893118) and downgraded binutils to 2.39 to confirm the error is present with that version. Otherwise, IIRC I didn't encounter any other build failures for x86_64-linux. Cheers, Kaelyn > > Anything else? > > > A number of people already provided feedback informally after > reconfiguring their systems on ‘core-updates’. Please share your > experience, positive or negative, here! > > Ludo’.
