Re: 58/142: gnu: polkit: Update to 0.120 and ungraft.

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@kolabnow.com>]

Hello Maxim,

[ Not sure which mailing list to copy on this email, so I’m adding
  guix-devel. I hope you don’t mind. ]

Em quarta-feira, 20 de outubro de 2021, às 15:56:37 -03, guix-
commits@gnu.org escreveu:

> apteryx pushed a commit to branch core-updates-frozen-batched-changes
> in repository guix.
>
> commit a9013fe0a43a096e554c8073808d8cd5c1b621b2
> Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Oct 8 11:56:47 2021 -0400
>
>     gnu: polkit: Update to 0.120 and ungraft.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/polkit.scm (polkit): Update to 0.120.
>     [origin]: Update URL and remove libsystemd-login substitution.  
Remove
>     replacement.
>     [inputs]: Update mozjs-60 to mozjs-78.
>     [native-inputs]: Add libxslt and docbook-xsl for manpage generation.
>     [phases]{fix-manpage-generation}: New phase.
>     (polkit/fixed): Delete package.
>     * gnu/packages/patches/polkit-CVE-2021-3560.patch: Delete file.
>     * gnu/local.mk: De-register it.
>     
>     Co-authored-by: Morgan Smith <Morgan.J.Smith@outlook.com>
> ---
>  gnu/local.mk                                    |  1 -
>  gnu/packages/patches/polkit-CVE-2021-3560.patch | 21 ----------
>  gnu/packages/polkit.scm                         | 51 ++++++++
+----------------
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

<snip>

>      (inputs
>       `(("expat" ,expat)
>         ("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)
>         ("elogind" ,elogind)
> -       ("mozjs" ,mozjs-60)
> +       ("mozjs" ,mozjs-78)
>         ("nspr" ,nspr)))
>      (propagated-inputs
>       `(("glib" ,glib))) ; required by polkit-gobject-1.pc

This is an important change in the polkit dependencies, because mozjs-78
depends on Rust which only builds on x86_64. The practical consequence
is that polkit and all its dependents become x86_64-only packages. I’m
not saying it’s wrong, but it’s a big change and I thought it would be
useful to mention it.

I just discovered it today when playing a bit with the
core-updates-frozen-batched-changes branch on ppc64le.

-- 
Thanks
Thiago