From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:29:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh8jw265.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h8p3jfke.fsf@fastmail.com> <87a7uuhejf.fsf@elephly.net> <87po3ph0t1.fsf@fastmail.com> <87bmf8fhqf.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1Vk1-0005xo-9Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:29:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1Vjx-0001jj-Aa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:29:13 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a0c:e300::1]:49358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1Vjx-0001jX-2m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:29:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmf8fhqf.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:32:40 +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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> Since it's fairly late in the core-updates cycle, I think it would be >> better to try restoring the prlimit64 fallback on the "rhel6" branch and >> then revisit this during the next core-updates. > > I=E2=80=99m not too happy with this, because the longer we delay this the= more > packages we have to build. The longer the rhel6 branch has to be kept > alive the more urgent it becomes to build rhel6-core-updates and > duplicate efforts for the variant where glibc 2.25 is used. I want to > keep this situation as short-lived as possible. I agree. We said we=E2=80=99d freeze on April 2nd, so it=E2=80=99s still t= ime to do it. Ludo=E2=80=99.