From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g7HGk-000864-Le for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:47:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g7HGg-0001ty-JB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:47:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:57755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g7HGg-0001tu-ER for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:47:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g7HGg-0002jK-BF for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:47:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#32834] [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Build with rust-1.24. Resent-Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:47:13 +0000 From: Nils Gillmann Message-ID: <20181002094713.wicniziznzna24fv@abyayala> References: <20180925044904.23530-1-efraim@flashner.co.il> <87lg7kvuhz.fsf@gnu.org> <4F179DDB-1E56-44ED-8F7D-A088BB30905E@flashner.co.il> <20181001090338.aflixd7cezx2sicp@abyayala> <87r2h8so8b.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87r2h8so8b.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Mark H Weaver , 32834@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Nils Gillmann skribis: > > > Efraim Flashner transcribed 782 bytes: > >> > >> > >> On September 29, 2018 9:55:36 PM UTC, ludo@gnu.org wrote: > >> >Hi Efraim, > >> > > >> >Efraim Flashner skribis: > >> > > >> >> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[native-inputs]: Use the oldest > >> >> compatable rust over newer releases when building icecat. > >> > > >> >[...] > >> > > >> >> + ;; Icecat 60 checkes for rust>=1.24 > >> >> + `(("rust" ,rust-1.24) > >> >> + ("cargo" ,rust-1.24 "cargo") > >> > > >> >I suppose the goal is to reduce the build chain, right? > >> > >> Right. Currently each round of rust takes about 12 hours on my fast aarch64 board. This built successfully on aarch64 and ng0 was able to build and test it on x86_64. > > > > It is convenient (less than 36 hours build, build only one version of > > rust), but I have to second the doubt about CVEs. > > Mark, have you considered asking Mozilla about their recommended > > strategy wrt chosing the right rust for a Firefox-based browser > > building and implications of using an older rust for crates already > > in Firefox? > > I suspect Mozilla is not paying attention to bootstrapping issues the > way we do, so they’d probably recommend just using the latest Rust > version. > > Ludo’. Turns out they have it documented: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Rust_Update_Policy_for_Firefox for 60: Firefox Version Requires Rust release date Firefox release date Firefox 60 Rust 1.24.0 2018 February 15 2018 May 9