From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: staging evaluation in progress Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:32:43 -0400 Message-ID: <8736zjtkz8.fsf@netris.org> References: <874lkbds7e.fsf@fastmail.com> <87vacnief8.fsf@netris.org> <874lk1aiwt.fsf@fastmail.com> <87tvs14bgf.fsf@netris.org> <20180425132135.GC17662@macbook41> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBLUS-0006Dq-2j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:33:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBLUO-0006w8-4E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:33:48 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:41972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBLUN-0006vy-W2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:33:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180425132135.GC17662@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:21:35 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner writes: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:53:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Marius Bakke writes: >> >> > Mark H Weaver writes: >> > >> >> Hi Marius, >> >> >> >> Marius Bakke writes: >> >> >> >>> I just started a 'staging' evaluation: >> >>> >> >>> https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/staging >> >>> >> >>> Fairly minor changes this round, highlights include Wayland 1.15 and >> >>> GStreamer 1.14. We narrowly missed Mesa 17.3.9 which was scheduled for >> >>> today but delayed, hopefully 17.3.8 doesn't introduce any new bugs. >> >>> >> >>> Results should start ticking in tomorrow. >> >> >> >> The main issue I see so far is that 'gst-plugins-base' seems to >> >> consistently fail the "elements/opus" test on i686-linux. It failed >> >> twice in a row, anyway: >> >> >> >> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2635798 >> > >> > I can reproduce this failure locally, and could not find related bug >> > reports or git commits upstream. For now I downgraded to 1.12.5 so we >> > can proceed, and will report the i686 and armhf issues upstream. >> >> Instead of downgrading gstreamer, I think it would be better to simply >> disable that test on i686 for now. Most likely, it is due to tests that >> are intolerant of the double rounding that occurs on i686 without SSE2, >> where the old x87 FP instructions are used instead. The double rounding >> happens because x87 operations are performed on 80-bit double-extended >> precision floating-point numbers, which must then be rounded a second >> time when they are converted to 64-bit doubles as used in C. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Mark >> > > somewhat random tests fail on aarch64 also, different ones from the > other architectures. I'd suggest we wait it out until 1.14.1 and watch > upstream for bug fixes. Do we know if there are any security fixes in 1.14.0 that are not in 1.12.5? Is the 1.12.x branch still receiving security updates? Mark