Re: core-updates freeze

[Kei Kebreau]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time.
>
> Yay!
>
>> This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently
>> representing 433 commits from 15 people, with commits dating back to
>> September last year(!).
>
> Ouch!  This is both impressive and… frightening.  :-)
>
>> Some of the highlights from this branch include:
>>
>> * jannekes long-awaited new reduced binary seeds for i686 and x86_64
>> * GCC7 is now the default compiler
>> * The 'CMake' package comes with full documentation
>> * OpenSSL 1.1 is now the default 'openssl' package
>> * GNOME 3.30
>> * glibc 2.29, binutils 2.32, gettext 0.20, bash 5.0.7, gawk 5.0.1, ...
>
> Exciting!
>
>> To give everyone a little time to brush up any last-minute patches, as
>> well as let the CI catch up with 'master' and 'staging', I suggest we
>> set a final date for starting the full CI build on *July 9th*, i.e six
>> days from now.  At which point the branch becomes bugfix-only, no new
>> updates or features.
>>
>> July 9th incidentally gives us just enough time to get Python 3.7.4 too,
>> which comes with desirable security and OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility fixes.
>
> July 9th is now behind us, where are we?  I’m currently running:
>
>   guix pull --branch=core-updates -p /tmp/core-updates
>
> so I can give it a shot with my profile and my system.
>
> Is there anything people should pay attention to, or any specific tests
> we should make?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ludo’.

I must say, the GNOME 3.30 changes haven't been pushed to core-updates
yet.  There were a number of issues with the updated GNOME desktop as I
last built it.  For example, the displayed time was incorrect, and the
"night light" feature didn't work.  Other issues included failing tests
that I couldn't figure out and just disabled to get the building to
finish.

If people would like to see my progress, I can send a patch series to
the guix-patches list, but working on this alone has been a slow process
thanks to the long rebuilds that come from working on this branch.  I'd
rather not push a partially-working GNOME, but I also don't want to
hinder the merging of core-updates, so please let me know what course of
action is preferred here.

Thanks,
Kei