From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-guix@etorok.net>
Cc: 24703@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24703: Re: bug#24703: Store references in 8-byte chunks in compiled code
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:42:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871szfs45v.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2024ad-13c1-d4b1-1541-c2a5bddcb403@etorok.net> ("Török Edwin"'s message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:46:59 +0300")
Török Edwin <edwin+ml-guix@etorok.net> writes:
> On 2016-10-16 22:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> When grafting, how will we achieve confidence that we've found the
>>> correct occurrence of the last character? I think we will have to give
>>> up our recently added feature of being able to change the version number
>>> of grafts.
>>
>> Wait, don’t jump to the conclusions. :-)
>
> I've just encountered the same problem with fontconfig (after
> installing GuixSD, running guix pull and guix system reconfigure,
> --no-grafts was required).
Here's how to recover, for now:
guix build --no-grafts -e '(@@ (gnu packages fontutils) fontconfig/fixed)'
> Would it be possible for the grafts to keep a symlink (somehow
> registered to be part of the grafted fontconfig so that guix gc
> doesn't remove it) instead of patching the binaries?
> /gnu/store/<old-hash>-fontconfig-2.11.94 -> /gnu/store/<grafted-hash>-fontconfig-2.11.94
This would effectively mutate the store, and we must never do this.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-16 3:49 bug#24703: fontconfig keeps obfuscated reference to itself, not grafted Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 4:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 5:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 6:24 ` bug#24703: Store references in 8-byte chunks in compiled code Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 9:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 9:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 10:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-16 19:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-17 7:46 ` bug#24703: " Török Edwin
2016-10-17 9:42 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-10-17 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-18 3:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-18 8:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-31 6:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-31 11:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-24 19:40 ` Leo Famulari
2016-10-24 20:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-04 23:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-05 18:36 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-06 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-09 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-09 23:16 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-10 8:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-02 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-11 10:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-19 21:25 ` Török Edwin
2016-10-20 12:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-16 14:42 ` bug#24703: fontconfig keeps obfuscated reference to itself, not grafted Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-16 15:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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