Re: core-updates freeze

[Kei Kebreau]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time.
>>>
>>> Yay!
>>>
>>>> This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently
>>>> representing 433 commits from 15 people, with commits dating back to
>>>> September last year(!).
>>>
>>> Ouch!  This is both impressive and… frightening.  :-)
>>>
>>>> Some of the highlights from this branch include:
>>>>
>>>> * jannekes long-awaited new reduced binary seeds for i686 and x86_64
>>>> * GCC7 is now the default compiler
>>>> * The 'CMake' package comes with full documentation
>>>> * OpenSSL 1.1 is now the default 'openssl' package
>>>> * GNOME 3.30
>>>> * glibc 2.29, binutils 2.32, gettext 0.20, bash 5.0.7, gawk 5.0.1, ...
>>>
>>> Exciting!
>>>
>>>> To give everyone a little time to brush up any last-minute patches, as
>>>> well as let the CI catch up with 'master' and 'staging', I suggest we
>>>> set a final date for starting the full CI build on *July 9th*, i.e six
>>>> days from now.  At which point the branch becomes bugfix-only, no new
>>>> updates or features.
>>>>
>>>> July 9th incidentally gives us just enough time to get Python 3.7.4 too,
>>>> which comes with desirable security and OpenSSL 1.1 compatibility fixes.
>>>
>>> July 9th is now behind us, where are we?  I’m currently running:
>>>
>>>   guix pull --branch=core-updates -p /tmp/core-updates
>>>
>>> so I can give it a shot with my profile and my system.
>>>
>>> Is there anything people should pay attention to, or any specific tests
>>> we should make?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Ludo’.
>>
>> I must say, the GNOME 3.30 changes haven't been pushed to core-updates
>> yet.  There were a number of issues with the updated GNOME desktop as I
>> last built it.  For example, the displayed time was incorrect, and the
>> "night light" feature didn't work.  Other issues included failing tests
>> that I couldn't figure out and just disabled to get the building to
>> finish.
>
> I think many of the failing tests should be fixed with commit
> ee46474d54a661e87cd501c3fde6e572b3423a60.
>

Some recent core-updates commits (possibly including this one) fixed at
least one package's tests.  I'll re-enable a few others and see where
that leads.

> Wrt the time zone issue, it appears recent Glib refuses to function if
> /etc/localtime is not a symbolic link, reminiscent of 
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746>:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/blob/glib-2-60/glib/gtimezone.c#L443
>
> I'm not sure what we should do about it.  Thoughts?
>
> Kei: Does it work if you 'echo Your/Timezone > /etc/timezone' ?
> Alternatively, you could make /etc/localtime a symbolic link to
> $tzdata/share/zoneinfo/Your/Timezone, though that will not persist a
> reboot.

I can confirm that both of these methods work, so crude work-arounds
include

  1.  Setting the system's configured time zone in /etc/timezone
  2.  Making /etc/localtime a symbolic link to the correct tzdata files
  3.  Patching glib to read from /etc/localtime if it is a symlink or a
      file

There are some other issues that I run into immediately, such as an
Emacs that fails to start when run under X.org (error log attached) and
a Gnome Control Center that crashes almost immediately after running.
Any ideas what may be going on here?  I've attached error logs for
both.

Thanks,
Kei

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