From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] QEMU 2.9.0-rc1 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:03:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8817u0w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bmsifttx.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20170330233710.GA12960@jasmine> 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]:45379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctrWg-0000cZ-Mx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:03:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctrWc-0000qC-NU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:03:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170330233710.GA12960@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:37:10 -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" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:27:54PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Leo Famulari writes: >> > gnu: qemu: Update to 2.9.0-rc1 [security fixes]. >>=20 >> I think it would be nice to have this in Guix proper (as a separate >> variable), so users don't have to apply this patch and build it >> manually. The downside is that it would land in users' profiles unless >> they take steps to prevent it, but I'm not sure how much of a problem >> that is given how easy it is to roll-back or exclude it. Thoughts? > > I'm unsure if we should add it. QEMU usually goes through 4 or 5 release > candidates. If the release candidates quickly turn into a release, as one would expect, then perhaps we can just wait for a few more days? Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.