Re: State of core-updates

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello,

Am Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 08:43:13PM +0000 schrieb Kaelyn:
> I'm at least a little in favor of that, as the commit message for cc56be2f3858487cf1d8acfb345942f0784221ee is mis-formatted (it doesn't have the first 'gnu: ' prefixed summary line, and so git log --oneline doesn't format it right).

sorry for that, I did go over the commit message, but overlooked this part.

> I just quickly formatted and sent a v2 patch using "git format-patch --attach" and "git send-email" to try to get something at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62209 that will work properly with "git am". (I'm still puzzled at what happened with the first one, as downloading the whole message and applying it with "git am" also fails for me.)

It still does not - there is no first line for the commit message
(the "gnu: ...").

When I try to "git am the-message-in-mbox-format", I get:
fatal: Dirty index: cannot apply patches (dirty: gnu/local.mk gnu/packages/gnome.scm gnu/packages/patches/glib-networking-32-bit-time.patch)

When I just try to apply "git am v2-0001-gnu-glib-networking-Fix-32-bit-builds.patch":
Patch format detection failed.
(which is normal, it does not have the commit message, but starts with
"diff").

I may have made an error, but it is suspicious that QA apparently also did
not manage to extract a git commit (there is no corresponding branch in
guix-patches).

Concerning "git send-email", I recently tried it and followed the advice at
   https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Sending-a-Patch-Series
It does not involve a "git format-patch" step.

Andreas