From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Bash 4.4 upgrade Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:27:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20160930172703.GA30565@jasmine> References: <20160920205530.GA21257@jasmine> <20160921052048.GA21274@jocasta.intra> <87d1jxi7jc.fsf@gnu.org> <20160927212618.GA1117@jasmine> <87mvipl5uh.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bq1fc-00021b-0f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:32:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bq1fa-0005Mo-3S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:32:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mvipl5uh.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: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 06:17:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > I spent some time looking at the Bash package definition, but I'm stuck > > on how to handle all the Bash %patch-series machinery. There are > > currently no patches for Bash 4.4, nor is there an FTP directory > > corresponding to a future patch series. > > > > Does anyone have advice on how to proceed? > > I started looking at it and will probably push something Real Soon > (turned out to be trickier than I thought because of various changes in > what “make install” does.) Sounds good. There is also readline 7.0, which I would have pushed to core-updates at the same time as Bash.