Re: Let's build 'core-updates'!

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:29:17PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 09:33:02PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> > We are still missing the "binutils" update.  Efraim, do you remember
> > what the issue with 2.29 was?
> 
> binutils-boot0 built fine, I don't remember what the next -boot0 package
> was, but it failed completely so I reverted it. I was also worried about
> all the CVEs showing up, and the couple that I checked didn't affect
> 2.28.1.

There are many recent bug disclosures in binutils that I have not paid
attention to. We should try to get them fixed in this cycle.

> > Is there anything else we should consider this round?  Maybe the
> > automatic wrapping from <https://bugs.gnu.org/27003>?

Sounds good.

> We should update cmake. It would also be nice if we could get rid of
> some of libjpeg-8 and other similar older versions, but that's something
> that can wait for the next round if need be. We've already added the
> python update branch in, so we should make sure to update the packages
> like pytest to only have the later version. If we have any more packages
> without modify-phases that can be taken care of also.

Sounds good.

Does anyone volunteer to handle some of those tasks?

> I'm currently building out to gtk+ and gtk+@2 on aarch64 to see how
> everything goes.

Efraim, I saw you had issues with net-tools-for-tests. Can you give more
detail?

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