From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre-headers: Update to 3.18.11 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:46:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87d236go3r.fsf@netris.org> References: <1429029191.6750@bluehome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiCP4-0004yS-Ri for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:46:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiCOx-0000WP-5J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:46:10 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:42819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiCOx-0000W5-1p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:46:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1429029191.6750@bluehome.net> (Jason Self's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:33:13 -0700 (PDT)") 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: Jason Self Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org "Jason Self" writes: > I understand that updated headers are needed in order for the new > version of VLC to compile successfully. Updating linux-libre-headers entails a full rebuild of everything in Guix. As Andreas noted, I updated it to the latest LTS (3.14.37) in the core-updates branch, which will hopefully be merged to master within a few days. Is 3.14.x new enough? Should I have chosen differently? If we need to change it, we'll have to wait for the next core-updates cycle. More generally, what should be our policy on how to choose a version for linux-libre-headers? > Also, since Alexandre Oliva periodically removes tarballs so as to > free up space on the virtual machine that hosts these, it might also > be a good idea to put a copy of linux-libre-3.18.11-gnu.tar.xz in > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror/ along with the current version > 3.3.8. Indeed, we should keep a copy of the source tarball for our linux-libre-headers there. I don't know that I have the necessary access to do that, so I guess that's a job for Ludovic. Mark