Re: Release on April 18th?

[Efraim Flashner]

On March 10, 2021 3:59:07 PM UTC, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Efraim,
>
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 17:30, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
>wrote:
> 
>>> Does it make sense to merge wip-ppc64le and core-updates?
>>> 
>> I wanted an Easy Win™ and I've pushed a branch
>wip-ppc64le-for-master,
>> which cherry-picked (I think) all of the powerpc64le commits and
>> adjusted them to work against master WITHOUT affecting other
>> architectures.
>>
>> I don't know why I thought it was an easy win, but if it looks good
>to
>> everyone I don't see why we couldn't merge powerpc64le into master by
>> the end of the week.
>
>So you confirm that cherry-picking from core-updates (as I suggested
>here [1]) is a bad idea, i.e., not an Easy Win™.  Anyway.
>
>IIUC, the remaining part is the GCC upgrade, right?
>
>
>1: <<http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-03-05.log#194536>

My understanding was that the gcc upgrade was necessary for powerpc64le with 
the next version of glibc. I think what we need now is people with powerpc64le 
hardware to test the branch.

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