bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Not sure how to handle it.  We could explicitly write ‘coreutils-8.27’
>> above, which would solve the problem.  It would also make the graft much
>> less useful, except for people explicitly doing:
>>
>>   guix package -i coreutils
>>
>> So we might just as well remove the graft.
>
> Okay, that makes sense. I dropped the graft in the patch below and can
> confirm it works on my system. Note that coreutils-8.27 is now public so
> that `guix package -i coreutils` will pull in 8.27 regardless. PTAL.

Indeed.

> From 5be25413a76ca84c18e4f4174629af5fe6e87db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:13:45 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add workaround for `date` regression in address@hidden
>
> See <https://bugs.gnu.org/23035> and <https://bugs.gnu.org/26238>.
>
> * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils-8.27): New variable.
> * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages): Use that instead of COREUTILS.

Go for it!

Thanks,
Ludo’.