From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: glibc security update
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:14:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8mwpnx9.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87povsn7u4.fsf@netris.org>
Mark H Weaver writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> I've pushed a fix for CVE-2015-7547 to the master branch, although Hydra
> has not fully rebuilt it. I directed Hydra to build the most popular
> packages first, and with greater effort devoted to x86_64, so my hope is
> that most of what typical desktop users need is already built on x86_64.
> Still, it is likely that you'll need to compile some things locally.
>
> i686 is not as fully built, so users will probably need to do some more
> compiling, but hopefully it is manageable. I was able to fully update
> my Xfce desktop system on i686 anyway.
>
> As I write this, the rebuilds of armhf and mips64el are considerably
> less advanced, so be prepared for a significant amount of local
> recompilation.
Thank you Mark, and everyone who works on getting Hydra in order so we
can be safe. We really appreciate your hard work!
> We'll prioritize getting grafts working properly soon, so that we can
> deploy security updates to core libraries much more quickly in the
> future.
Yay!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-19 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-19 13:33 IMPORTANT: glibc security update Mark H Weaver
2016-02-19 18:14 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-20 5:20 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-21 1:40 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-02-21 23:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-02-21 22:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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