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Re: Release on April 18th?
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zimoun |
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Re: Release on April 18th? |
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Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:18:19 +0100 |
Hi Leo,
On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 at 14:07, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:41:34AM +0100, zimoun wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 at 13:51, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>> > * Update tzdata
>>
>> “guix refresh tzdata -l” provides couple of dependants. Is it
>> reasonable to update it for the next release?
>
> For me, I see 1765 dependents (a "couple" is 2). We have the capacity to
> rebuild them in this timeframe.
I should have had emphasized «couple». ;-)
Ah, I miss something because I thought this kind of upgrade was a
candidate for core-updates or staging.
Anyway. :-)
Added to the TODO. :-)
> The staging branch has been completed, along with the previous
> ungrafting. But now there are new grafts and, in my opinion, we don't
> have time to do another staging round before April 18.
Ungrafting as an instance of «Sisyphus stone». ;-)
>> From my point of view, the whole “ungrafting” process is unclear on two
>> sides: 1. how to effectively ungraft a package? i.e., what are the
>> typical steps? and 2. what is the list of packages to ungraft?
>
> 1) Move the changes of the replacement packages into the packages that
> were being replaced. For example, we should move the patch
> 'python-2.7-CVE-2021-3177.patch' from the origin of python-2.7/fixed to
> the origin of python-2.7.
>
> 2) Grep on the master branch in gnu/packages for '(replacement'. That
> will show you every graft.
Thanks for the explanations. I will try to contribute to the effort in
the next days.
Does it exist a way to list the grafts? I mean there is “guix build
--no-grafts” but I do not know how to get what grafts which will be
applied beforehand.
Cheers,
simon
- Re: Release on April 18th?, (continued)
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- Re: Release on April 18th?, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/05
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