On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:45:54 +0200 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > > > Andreas Enge writes: > > > >> andreas pushed a commit to branch master > >> in repository guix. > >> > >> commit 075c3ebd2dc3d8223e23025ceb5026810dfaa98d > >> Author: Andreas Enge > >> 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. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted