Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-08-18 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ian, Ian Eure writes: [...] > The recent 3.101.1 NSS release is an ESR, per the relesae notes[1]. > What’s the process for getting that update into Guix? Since it’ll > cause many rebuilds, it needs to go into a branch first. core-updates > seems like a reasonable place for it -- do I just s

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-08-15 Thread Ian Eure
Maxim Cournoyer writes: Hi, Ian Eure writes: Felix Lechner writes: Hi Ian, On Mon, Jul 01 2024, Ian Eure wrote: if you have strong feelings about -next vs. -latest How about nss-rapid? It provides the clue about what was packaged to someone who knows libnss. I like it. I’ll

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-07-01 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Ian Eure writes: > Felix Lechner writes: > >> Hi Ian, >> >> On Mon, Jul 01 2024, Ian Eure wrote: >> >>> if you have strong feelings about -next vs. -latest >> >> How about nss-rapid? It provides the clue about what was packaged >> to >> someone who knows libnss. >> > > I like it. I’ll upd

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
Felix Lechner writes: Hi Ian, On Mon, Jul 01 2024, Ian Eure wrote: if you have strong feelings about -next vs. -latest How about nss-rapid? It provides the clue about what was packaged to someone who knows libnss. I like it. I’ll update the package descriptions to make this clear

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-07-01 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ian, On Mon, Jul 01 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > if you have strong feelings about -next vs. -latest How about nss-rapid? It provides the clue about what was packaged to someone who knows libnss. Kind regards Felix

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer writes: Hi Ian, Ian Eure writes: [...] Concretely: The current nss package should stay how it is. When the next ESR happens, it should update to that (ungrafting nss at the same time), and track ESR releases only from that point forward. I don’t think it wo

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-06-30 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ian, Ian Eure writes: [...] > Concretely: > > The current nss package should stay how it is. When the next ESR > happens, it should update to that (ungrafting nss at the same time), > and track ESR releases only from that point forward. I don’t think it > would make sense to downgrade the

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-06-27 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Felix, Felix Lechner writes: Hi Ian, On Thu, Jun 27 2024, Ian Eure wrote: The nss package updates frequently, around once a month. [...] I'm considering options to balance update frequency vs. huge rebuilds. Your plan sounds reasonable but my opinion is inconsequential. Instead, I'd

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-06-27 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ian, On Thu, Jun 27 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > The nss package updates frequently, around once a month. [...] I'm > considering options to balance update frequency vs. huge rebuilds. Your plan sounds reasonable but my opinion is inconsequential. Instead, I'd like to point out that you are not

Proposal: nss updates

2024-06-27 Thread Ian Eure
The nss package updates frequently, around once a month. It's also very low in the package graph, so a ton of stuff depends on it. The most recent update was a graft for security fixes, so we didn't have to rebuild everything, but the new Librewolf version once again requires an nss update. I