Re: An update on ‘core-updates’

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> Several of us have been fiddling with the ‘core-updates’ branch for a
> while.  I think there’s now consensus that the branch is really
> dedicated to core packages and (guix build …) modules, as embodied in
> the new ‘core-packages’ team¹.
>
> We’ve updated GCC 11.x, glibc, binutils, and various packages from (gnu
> packages base).  Notable exceptions are Coreutils, Findutils, sed, and
> tar; I tried but that’s a bit more work, notably because their variants
> in commencement.scm would no longer build because their build scripts
> use sed patterns not supported by Gash-Utils.
>
> Long story short: I’d like us to freeze and merge the branch ASAP,
> notably because the glibc graft on ‘master’ leads to a bad user
> experience.  I’m happy with the current state of the branch and wouldn’t
> mind postponing remaining upgrades for the next cycle.
>
> Thoughts?

Sounds good!

> Remaining work includes: checking that cross-compilation targets still
> work after the recent Binutils updates, checking i586-gnu (GNU/Hurd) and
> other platforms, and possibly addressing the Gawk non-determinism
> issue².

There's a non-determinism issue in Python that is supposed to be fixed
in bug#68394; we should apply it if possible.

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Thanks,
Maxim