From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Any objections to removing linux-libre@4.1? Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87zidm3p91.fsf@netris.org> References: <87wp8suvs4.fsf@netris.org> <20170604163130.GA14880@jasmine> <87o9u3v30i.fsf@netris.org> <20170605214644.GA27266@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dI2qU-0003gY-Pj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:59:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dI2qR-0004XH-6o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:59:42 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:57527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dI2qR-0004X0-1X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:59:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170605214644.GA27266@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:46:44 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 05:47:41PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> I forgot to mention: >> >> Leo Famulari writes: >> > I'd hate to "strand" existing users who might not notice that they are >> > not receiving updates to the 'linux-4.1' package they've specified in >> > their GuixSD configuration. >> >> I think they could not fail to notice, because if we removed it, any >> attempt to build a system with linux-libre-4.1 would fail immediately. > > Ah, right. I was thinking of `guix package -u .` for out-of-tree packages. Thanks for reminding me about this issue with "guix package -u". I just filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gnu.org/27261 Mark