Hi John, John Kehayias <john.kehay...@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hi Maxim et al, > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 11:12 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> The core-updates branch is still alive, and has accumulated (or plans >> to) a few changes that cause world-rebuilds, such as fixes to >> git-minimal (bug#65924) as well as docbook improvements (bug#65479) and >> fixes to the build systems so that deep input rewriting works as >> intended (bug#65665). >> >> I think we could also batch ungrafting of all grafted packages, to make >> the most out of this complete rebuild. >> > > That sounds good, we have suddenly got a bunch of grafts deep in the > dependency tree. > > Speaking of which, I was planning to at least ungraft libx11 and > libxpm, recipients of recent grafts for security reasons, on a > forthcoming mesa-updates branch. I'm just waiting for the next point > release of mesa, since 23.2.1 is actually the first release where > typically a first .1 release is considered the start of the stable > series. (Though 23.2 has had a long release candidate time.) > > So, what are we thinking of the time to build/merge core-updates? I > was hoping to do some ungrafting and updating in the mesa-related > ecosystem this week, depending on upstream. I should be able to drive this merge in a speedy manner, since I have a lot of time at the moment. I'm hopeful it could be merged into master in a month time (so, approximately mid-November). > I'll start a separate thread soon to ask for what patches to include > there that I don't already know about, but I'm happy to include > similar scope ungrafting if that makes sense before core-updates. To keep things easy to follow and avoid duplicating efforts, I'd keep most ungrafting to core-updates, unless those pertaining to other teams such as mesa. -- Thanks, Maxim
