Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke writes:
>
>> Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> From 802c557c95ae9cbe7edeec1ab58fc05ef4c4cd32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 15:53:54 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Update glib to 2.52.1.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib):  Update to 2.52.1.
>>> ---
>>>  gnu/packages/glib.scm | 4 ++--
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/glib.scm b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>> index 6de9cce0b..4e29a550b 100644
>>> --- a/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ shared NFS home directories.")
>>>  (define glib
>>>    (package
>>>     (name "glib")
>>> -   (version "2.50.3")
>>> +   (version "2.52.1")
>>>     (source (origin
>>>              (method url-fetch)
>>>              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnome/sources/"
>>> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ shared NFS home directories.")
>>>                                  name "-" version ".tar.xz"))
>>>              (sha256
>>>               (base32
>>> -              "16frrwhc1yqkzx6bgh3060g94dr2biab17fb01mrni819jzr9vl2"))
>>> +              "0vsqrvjwsk2x3mm2i428hpm5vgsi1b384l6xdhm7xmzj2yw2d34l"))
>>>              (patches (search-patches "glib-tests-timer.patch"))))
>>>     (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>>     (outputs '("out"           ; everything
>>> -- 
>>> 2.12.1
>>>
>>> Dear Guix,
>>>
>>> Is it OK to update glib?
>>
>> I suspect this would require some other GTK updates as well. Maybe we
>> can start a new "gnome-updates" branch[0] and try to bring everything up
>> to date. "glib" alone has almost 1500 dependent packages which is too
>> much for "staging". What do you think?
>>
>> [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html
>
> This is a good idea.  The ultimate purpose is to get the latest GNOME
> release in GNU Guix.  I cannot carry this task entirely myself, if we
> would like to get it in before the next GNOME release.. ;)
>
> So, I am not sure we need to build everything on Hydra, since it's
> already under a high load.  Maybe it's enough to create a branch in the
> Git repository and do the builds locally?

I think pushing a "gnome-updates" branch to Savannah is a good start :)
`./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u gnome` appears able to do the grunt of
it. Let's start a Hydra evaluation once most packages are updated and
see how it goes :)