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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Dealing with mass rebuilds
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:45:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:17:12 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>
>> andreas pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 075c3ebd2dc3d8223e23025ceb5026810dfaa98d
>> Author: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
>> Date:   Sun Oct 18 12:20:02 2015 +0200
>>
>>     gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0.
>
> To avoid unnecessary rebuilds on hydra, I reverted this commit on
> master, and instead pushed it to the 'dbus-update' branch, which will
> hopefully be merged soon.

We’re talking of ~150 dependent packages, which to me sounded OK¹.

If we delay obvious changes like this too much, the risk is to end up
with upgrade-everything branches that take ages to get merged (what is
happening with ‘dbus-update’.)

The Nixpkgs folks have a ‘staging’ branch for changes that cause mass
rebuilds but are well tested, such that they can be merged into ‘master’
anytime².  Perhaps something we should do as well?

Ludo’.

¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00653.html
² http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-20 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1ZoZal-0001Fl-M5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-20 18:17   ` 01/01: gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0 Mark H Weaver
2015-10-20 19:45     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-10-20 19:56       ` Dealing with mass rebuilds Efraim Flashner
2015-10-20 21:47       ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-21  7:27         ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-21 16:41           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-21 16:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-22 20:11           ` Paul van der Walt
2015-10-25 21:34             ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-22 18:20       ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-22 18:32         ` Andreas Enge

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