[bug#38509] [PATCH] gnu: libuv: Update to 1.34.0

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> writes:

> Andrew Miloradovsky <andrew@interpretmath.pw> writes:
>
>> -    (arguments
>> -     '(;; XXX: Some tests want /dev/tty, attempt to make connections, etc.
>> -       #:tests? #f))
>> +    (arguments '(#:tests? #f))
>> +    ;; tests 122-124 (getnameinfo_basic_ip*) fail
>> +    ;; https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/2531
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thank you for your submission. I have some questions before we go
> forward with this patch. First, I'd like to note that this change would
> trigger a huge rebuild of thousands of dependent packages.
>
> brettg@oryx ~/Repos/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l libuv
> Building the following 2067 packages would ensure 5397 dependent packages are rebuilt:
>
> That said, is there some particular functionality or security that is
> provided with this patch? If so, it would be great if you could
> elaborate on that in the Git sub-header of the commit message.
>
> Since this patch would trigger such a massive rebuild it will need to go
> to the `core-updates` branch to rest before it sees master. So having
> that detail in the commit message will make it easier for us to see what
> we are working with.
>
> Lastly, just curious if there is a way to work around the issues with
> tests 122-124 as shown in your above snippet. I know that the tests were
> blanket disabled before, so I am just curious if there is a _better_ way
> to do this, maybe i'm wrong. If the issue is that the tests require
> network functionality that can usually be spoofed with some
> effort. Also, stylistically, comments not on the same line as the code
> they are commenting usually go before the code in question.
>
> I hope that makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions, I am
> happy to help.

Actually, on further exploration of the `core-updates` branch, libuv is
already at 1.34 there.

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
https://git.sr.ht/~brettgilio/