Re: Successfully running GNOME on core-updates + staging

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I've successfully updated my x86_64 GuixSD system to my private branch
>>> based on 'core-updates' with recent 'master' and 'staging' merged into
>>> it.  This system includes a full GNOME desktop environment plus a few
>>> programs based on Qt.  It all works quite well.
>>>
>>> My branch includes a few draft fixes and workarounds that I haven't yet
>>> pushed, but nothing that would require many rebuilds to update later.
>>>
>>> So, I think it might be time to ask Hydra to build all of core-updates,
>>> after staging is merged into it.
>>
>> I agree.  There was an issue with cross-compiling ‘bootstrap-tarballs’
>> that Marius reported a few days ago, which I’m looking into right now.
>> I don’t expect the fix(es) to trigger a full rebuild.
>>
>> If Marius and others don’t object, I’d say go for it!
>
> No objections from me.  However I do have a bunch of fairly innocent
> updates in my queue, such as SQLite, Glib and CMake.  It's also tempting
> to get rid of that Perl graft.  Is it too late for such changes?

I think it’s OK for sqlite/glib/cmake, but changing Perl would further
delay things, which perhaps is not desirable.

> Hydra will be busy for a couple of days with 'master' and 'staging', so
> there's little use in starting it immediately.

It took me a couple of days to reply :-), so maybe we can start the
evaluation now?

We can also get berlin to build all of ‘core-updates’ if we want.

Thanks,
Ludo’.