From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: core-updates freeze Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:26:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87ftncvbgs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87blybrqjn.fsf@devup.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlay7-00017r-JP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:26:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87blybrqjn.fsf@devup.no> (Marius Bakke's message of "Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:11:56 +0200") 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: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Marius Bakke skribis: > The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time. Yay! > This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently > representing 433 commits from 15 people, with commits dating back to > September last year(!). Ouch! This is both impressive and=E2=80=A6 frightening. :-) > Some of the highlights from this branch include: > > * jannekes long-awaited new reduced binary seeds for i686 and x86_64 > * GCC7 is now the default compiler > * The 'CMake' package comes with full documentation > * OpenSSL 1.1 is now the default 'openssl' package > * GNOME 3.30 > * glibc 2.29, binutils 2.32, gettext 0.20, bash 5.0.7, gawk 5.0.1, ... Exciting! > To give everyone a little time to brush up any last-minute patches, as > well as let the CI catch up with 'master' and 'staging', I suggest we > set a final date for starting the full CI build on *July 9th*, i.e six > days from now. At which point the branch becomes bugfix-only, no new > updates or features. > > July 9th incidentally gives us just enough time to get Python 3.7.4 too, > which comes with desirable security and OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility fixes. July 9th is now behind us, where are we? I=E2=80=99m currently running: guix pull --branch=3Dcore-updates -p /tmp/core-updates so I can give it a shot with my profile and my system. Is there anything people should pay attention to, or any specific tests we should make? Thank you! Ludo=E2=80=99.