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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: core-updates merged!
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:14:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4zxym1r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfaGc0bJTyysR5fPTov1x97Ui4mzrUfB6MzVFqUB_hyrTA@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:55:08 -0400")

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I've just merged core-updates in master, and Hydra has already built
>> most of it.  So that brings glibc 2.19, grep 2.18, libgc 7.4, guile
>> 2.0.11, bash 6.3, the ability to use directories as package sources
>> (instead of tarballs), and a bunch of other updates and improvements.
>
> bash 6.3?  Is this a typo or have I missed something?

4.3, indeed.  :-)

> Merging core-updates every 2 months sounds reasonable to me, fwiw.
> What are the potential downsides to frequently merging core-updates?
> Too much package rebuilding?   Unstable software?  Just curious if
> there are any good reasons for a more conservative approach.

The main issue is too much rebuilding, yes, and perhaps sometimes we’d
gather very few changes in 2 months.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-26 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-18 14:26 core-updates merge soon! Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-26 15:46 ` core-updates merged! Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-26 15:55   ` Thompson, David
2014-03-26 16:14     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-03-26 17:28       ` Thompson, David
2014-03-27  9:37         ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-05 16:51 core-updates, wip-armhf, and 0.8.1 Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-16 12:39 ` core-updates merged! Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 16:38 Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 18:46 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 18:50   ` John Darrington
2015-02-10 19:38   ` Federico Beffa
2016-08-01  8:19 Core-updates Andreas Enge
2016-08-01 21:48 ` core-updates merged! Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-02 13:26   ` ng0
2016-08-02 17:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-02 17:48       ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-02 21:28         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-03  4:04           ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 16:42             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-03 17:24               ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 17:56                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-03 18:39                   ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 20:01                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-03 21:01                       ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 21:27                         ` Andreas Enge
2016-08-03 22:14                           ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-06 14:42             ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-10 19:49               ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-13  7:15                 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-08-09  3:07           ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-18 21:24 'core-updates' status Marius Bakke
2017-08-21 21:07 ` Marius Bakke
2017-08-25 18:34   ` Marius Bakke
2017-08-25 19:55     ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-26 12:04       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-26 13:30         ` core-updates merged! Marius Bakke
2017-08-27 16:03           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-08 19:47 Marius Bakke
2020-05-08 20:48 ` Jack Hill

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