Re: IMPORTANT: glibc security update

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Mark H Weaver writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> I've pushed a fix for CVE-2015-7547 to the master branch, although Hydra
> has not fully rebuilt it.  I directed Hydra to build the most popular
> packages first, and with greater effort devoted to x86_64, so my hope is
> that most of what typical desktop users need is already built on x86_64.
> Still, it is likely that you'll need to compile some things locally.
>
> i686 is not as fully built, so users will probably need to do some more
> compiling, but hopefully it is manageable.  I was able to fully update
> my Xfce desktop system on i686 anyway.
>
> As I write this, the rebuilds of armhf and mips64el are considerably
> less advanced, so be prepared for a significant amount of local
> recompilation.

Thank you Mark, and everyone who works on getting Hydra in order so we
can be safe.  We really appreciate your hard work!

> We'll prioritize getting grafts working properly soon, so that we can
> deploy security updates to core libraries much more quickly in the
> future.

Yay!