bug#26534: [PATCH] gnu: Update glib to 2.52.1.

[Kei Kebreau]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:

> Kei Kebreau writes:
>
>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Marius Bakke writes:
>>>
>>>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Marius Bakke writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From 802c557c95ae9cbe7edeec1ab58fc05ef4c4cd32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>>>> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 15:53:54 +0200
>>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Update glib to 2.52.1.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib):  Update to 2.52.1.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  gnu/packages/glib.scm | 4 ++--
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/glib.scm b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>>>>>> index 6de9cce0b..4e29a550b 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>>>>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
>>>>>>> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ shared NFS home directories.")
>>>>>>>  (define glib
>>>>>>>    (package
>>>>>>>     (name "glib")
>>>>>>> -   (version "2.50.3")
>>>>>>> +   (version "2.52.1")
>>>>>>>     (source (origin
>>>>>>>              (method url-fetch)
>>>>>>>              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnome/sources/"
>>>>>>> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ shared NFS home directories.")
>>>>>>>                                  name "-" version ".tar.xz"))
>>>>>>>              (sha256
>>>>>>>               (base32
>>>>>>> -              "16frrwhc1yqkzx6bgh3060g94dr2biab17fb01mrni819jzr9vl2"))
>>>>>>> +              "0vsqrvjwsk2x3mm2i428hpm5vgsi1b384l6xdhm7xmzj2yw2d34l"))
>>>>>>>              (patches (search-patches "glib-tests-timer.patch"))))
>>>>>>>     (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>>>>>>     (outputs '("out"           ; everything
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> 2.12.1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Guix,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it OK to update glib?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect this would require some other GTK updates as well. Maybe we
>>>>>> can start a new "gnome-updates" branch[0] and try to bring everything up
>>>>>> to date. "glib" alone has almost 1500 dependent packages which is too
>>>>>> much for "staging". What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a good idea.  The ultimate purpose is to get the latest GNOME
>>>>> release in GNU Guix.  I cannot carry this task entirely myself, if we
>>>>> would like to get it in before the next GNOME release.. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I am not sure we need to build everything on Hydra, since it's
>>>>> already under a high load.  Maybe it's enough to create a branch in the
>>>>> Git repository and do the builds locally?
>>>>
>>>> I think pushing a "gnome-updates" branch to Savannah is a good start :)
>>>> `./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u gnome` appears able to do the grunt of
>>>> it. Let's start a Hydra evaluation once most packages are updated and
>>>> see how it goes :)
>>>
>>> I pushed the branch and put the glib update there.  I will push of
>>> 'refresh -u gnome' there as well.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Roel Janssen
>>
>> Hi Roel,
>>
>> I'm looking at updating GNOME packages as well. When I tried building
>> the most recent version of Eye of GNOME, glib gave me two test
>> failures. Do you think these failures could be a result of glib
>> dependencies needing to be updated, or is this fixable on its own?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Kei
>
> Dear Kei,
>
> I think I have found what fixes the two failing tests.. I run the tests
> in parallel.  When I disabled running them in parallel, two tests fail
> related to 'gdbus'.
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen

I have good news! Your original patch works when I upgrade dbus to its
latest version, 1.10.18. So now we just need to update dbus and get the
update merged into gnome-updates.

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