From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:56:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151020225633.4e091c15@debian-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:45:54 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
> > Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> >
> >> andreas pushed a commit to branch master
> >> in repository guix.
> >>
> >> commit 075c3ebd2dc3d8223e23025ceb5026810dfaa98d
> >> Author: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
> >> Date: Sun Oct 18 12:20:02 2015 +0200
> >>
> >> gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0.
> >
> > To avoid unnecessary rebuilds on hydra, I reverted this commit on
> > master, and instead pushed it to the 'dbus-update' branch, which will
> > hopefully be merged soon.
>
> We’re talking of ~150 dependent packages, which to me sounded OK¹.
>
> If we delay obvious changes like this too much, the risk is to end up
> with upgrade-everything branches that take ages to get merged (what is
> happening with ‘dbus-update’.)
>
> The Nixpkgs folks have a ‘staging’ branch for changes that cause mass
> rebuilds but are well tested, such that they can be merged into ‘master’
> anytime². Perhaps something we should do as well?
>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00653.html
> ² http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447
>
It would make an obvious place to push an sqlite update and allow the
dbus-update update branch to focus just on the dbus-update, or a core-update
branch to focus just on core updates.
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[not found] ` <E1ZoZal-0001Fl-M5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-20 18:17 ` 01/01: gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0 Mark H Weaver
2015-10-20 19:45 ` Dealing with mass rebuilds Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-20 19:56 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2015-10-20 21:47 ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-21 7:27 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-21 16:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-21 16:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-22 20:11 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-10-25 21:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-22 18:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-22 18:32 ` Andreas Enge
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