Re: Status of ‘core-updates’

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello!

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:

> Disclaimer: I've been quite busy with work recently and haven't been
> able to work on core-updates that much (having to build the world
> locally doesn't help).

No problem.  We should find someone willing to pick up the coordination
work for the coming month or so.  Any volunteer?  :-)

To be clear (but I guess it’s crystal clear to anyone who’s been around
long enough :-)), what we need most is someone to keep track of changes,
coordinate efforts, decide what goes in the branch and what’s postponed
or moved to a separate branch, and send periodic (weekly) status updates
over the course of a couple of months.  This can (and probably should)
be done without doing any actual hacking on the branch.

> Currently, the desktop system image doesn't build anymore because we've
> also integrated patches to use pkgconf instead of pkg-config.  I think
> the effort to actually make that work with all of our packages is going
> to be a bit too much to handle right now.  IMO, we should probably
> revert/branch out before then so that we can push core-updates past the
> finish line.  A feature branch to integrate pkgconf properly could then
> be worked on later.

Last time we discussed it on IRC, you were in the process of putting up
a branch without those pkgconf changes, IIRC.  Were you able to complete
that work?

If not, I guess that’ll be the first thing to do, unless someone has a
better idea.

> Other than that, I was able to get a working desktop before the
> aforementioned patches but with some locale errors that I fixed with
> ae07bc2dd0124b625acf70e594ccc90d6d128562, so I'm not expecting too much
> trouble.  We'll probably have to add libxcrypt as an input to some other
> packages that I haven't tested yet, but that's quite trivial.

Alright.

Thanks for all the work so far!

Ludo’.