From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Dealing with mass rebuilds Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:45:54 +0200 Message-ID: <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33859) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZocrH-0003qb-2G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:46:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zocr8-0004Jw-Nl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:46:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:17:12 -0400") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver skribis: > Andreas Enge writes: > >> andreas pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 075c3ebd2dc3d8223e23025ceb5026810dfaa98d >> Author: Andreas Enge >> 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=E2=80=99re talking of ~150 dependent packages, which to me sounded OK=C2= =B9. 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 =E2=80=98dbus-update=E2=80=99.) The Nixpkgs folks have a =E2=80=98staging=E2=80=99 branch for changes that = cause mass rebuilds but are well tested, such that they can be merged into =E2=80=98ma= ster=E2=80=99 anytime=C2=B2. Perhaps something we should do as well? Ludo=E2=80=99. =C2=B9 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00653.html =C2=B2 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447