Re: Freezing ‘core-updates’ soon?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hello!

> What about finally merging that ‘core-updates’ branch?  :-)
>
> The main things to decide on are:
>
>   • Upgrading to GCC 10?  I know Marius has spent time looking at it and
>     fixing build failures caused by the upgrade.  Can we do it?
>
>   • Reduced binary seeds—anything new?  My understanding is that the
>     reduced binary seed bootstrap now works on ARM, but that we were
>     waiting on a Mes release to merge those bits.  Janneke, Danny?

Sadly, we are not there yet.  The gcc/glibc build is still not done.

The full source bootstrap is "almost ready" and is waiting for a GNU Mes
release.  It was wating for an M2-Planet release but that happened last
week!  I'm not sure about a time frame here though.  A week, hmm?

>   • Simplified package inputs—I’ll keep working on that, and most of the
>     work can be done without a world rebuild, so it’s not a blocker IMO.

I haven't really caught-up here and am still wondering here about things
like

   ("foo-for-build" ,foo)
   ("patch-bar" ,(search-patch ...))

but that's prolly addressed.  I'll look into this.

Greetings,
Janneke

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