From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:56:33 +0300 Message-ID: <20151020225633.4e091c15@debian-netbook> References: <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/r379fcTnZCFGgK4WAR7MlQr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zod1Y-0006AJ-DY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:56:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zod1V-0007QU-6x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:56:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?UTF-8?B?Q291cnTDqHM=?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/r379fcTnZCFGgK4WAR7MlQr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:45:54 +0200 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote: > Mark H Weaver skribis: >=20 > > Andreas Enge writes: > > =20 > >> 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. =20 > > > > 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. =20 >=20 > We=E2=80=99re talking of ~150 dependent packages, which to me sounded OK= =C2=B9. >=20 > 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 =E2=80=98dbus-update=E2=80=99.) >=20 > The Nixpkgs folks have a =E2=80=98staging=E2=80=99 branch for changes tha= t cause mass > rebuilds but are well tested, such that they can be merged into =E2=80=98= master=E2=80=99 > anytime=C2=B2. Perhaps something we should do as well? >=20 > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20 > =C2=B9 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00653.html > =C2=B2 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447 >=20 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. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --Sig_/r379fcTnZCFGgK4WAR7MlQr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWJpxxAAoJEPTB05F+rO6T7y8P/jx+ZW7aVANAmXzk3Cm6ak5C xHqtY4YP60X28InnAPKRiZbA/i2W5dT4GWjVw93zCUl5sG0y09HoP21YREkAmWoC T7D4m6mPhZESHg1AUGl3MXR3j2t/NyqTN4IX0Zb0aP1z9I1ksU9MjPRvzS/KR7ya NRXley6+9RgPlwKh4pPVoDDQ3zotTMCb1R22aj+AZs+iE8Na/XCYJz0mXNkiwN+a +zJ1s6noxYXYi3c+KHvh/NbRRuTycJNpYhQI1AAq5JmTuDpEtX+32PqeV43O+m9M bdMawNff1Zt2wP2pp+AxrfaypzhtwyqJSWjDaxVmRO0j3aqMY2l3DpKBieGK8s4Y jUZoozFpBuPN2EM32e89WhX5CdeiFPlccPR82mOajAHccBv8n21e45UeEFAYjDQZ EUGrMKhhE6Zf6qAakM3qfnXtzPnFsBNZSedTP9IjdVOp8fMLk9YRKKES2+GN1eRw zT3iFv9sgOk53L2JDV23eQVu+NEWSo6x4ghawlk3Pxpgw3DBy7pemqKM5RAyL8aa q4hGF1x3Y/CaXE9QythwmxmzEAxvkvbfb6l+puxNOogrppOv9a3XKlibxxNaYs3a JSIyvFSXI7tmKPmN7pXvMYf+HY3FPCddFH1EEokwE0yCggs/ChCMmGybf0oiKVwl AihjeNEIGwRfCZYSw/2h =mThx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/r379fcTnZCFGgK4WAR7MlQr--