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Re: Planning for the next release


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Planning for the next release
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 20:50:29 +0200
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> With UEFI (almost) ready, Guile 2.2 in the house, and “make release”,
>>> should we aim for next week (like Wed. 17th)?  Can we focus on polishing
>>> the remaining bits and testing?
>>>
>>> If the schedule turns out to be too tight, we could move to the week
>>> after.
>>
>> I’d like to merge wip-installer, but not start it by default.  It would
>> be a shame to see the branch bit-rot.
>
> I agree we shouldn’t let it bitrot.  Earlier I suggested postponing it
> though, because we wouldn’t have time to test it (nobody is currently
> working on it AFAIK):
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00491.html
>
> WDYT?

Okay, let’s merge it some time after the release to be sure that it
doesn’t break anything.

>> We also need to fix the glibc on hurd (the patch for i686 should not be
>> applied there), but I haven’t been able to reproduce the failure on
>> hydra.  https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2036383/nixlog/1/raw
>
> Cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd from x86_64-linux-gnu works:
>
>   $ guix build sed --target=i586-pc-gnu
>   /gnu/store/rd2jngvxbyk5a1yy2ysd0d3wwkbw0pmc-sed-4.4
>
> It would be better to fix cross builds from i686 as well.  I can take a
> look but I wouldn’t consider it a blocker.

You don’t need to spend time on this.  I didn’t know that it’s a cross
build *from* i686 that’s failing.  Earlier I didn’t find the right
incantation to reproduce that failing build, but now I should be able to
figure it out and fix it.

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Ricardo

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