From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.61.0. Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:11:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20160921161131.GA3358@solar> References: <8737kw2tp8.fsf@gnu.org> <871t0g2o7m.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmk7a-0005WK-5l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:11:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmk7V-0003jP-0L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:11:41 -0400 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:47058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmk7U-0003jA-Ix for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:11:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871t0g2o7m.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" To: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > I don't know what the impact of the following upgrade is, but I think it > would be good to update Boost to the latest stable version that was > released on May 13th, 2016. boost has quite a few dependencies, as Ricardo already pointed out, and in my experience tends to be a bit fragile. So maybe the best option would be to create a boost-update branch and have it built on hydra to see whether there are problems. It not, one could then cherry-pick the commit to master. Andreas