Hi, On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:36 PM, Kaelyn <kaelyn.al...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi John, > > On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:11 PM, John Kehayias > john.kehay...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > Hi Kaelyn, > > > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 08:01 PM, Kaelyn wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've just submitted a pair of patches for the mesa-updates branch: > > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67136 updating xorgproto and > > > xorg-server-xwayland. The xorgproto is a high-impact update (guix > > > refresh reports rebuilding 8710 packages would ensure 22871 dependent > > > packages are rebuilt), but required to update to the latest xwayland > > > as xwayland requires a newer version of presentproto than in the > > > current guix xorgproto package. The updating and ungrafting of mesa > > > and a number of X.org related libraries seemed like a good time (and > > > place) to update xorgproto as well. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Kaelyn > > > > Thanks for the patches. I think mesa-updates in this current iteration > > is set on builds (ended up being a lot more due to the ungrafting but > > seems done on our main architectures for several days now). I had to > > make some other changes to fix some larger breakages but at this point I > > think it will just be taking us back in the build queue too much. > > > > So I think it would make more sense on the next big rebuild, either > > core-updates (talk about doing that with more ungrafts right now) or > > I'll do mesa-updates again when the next release of mesa hits. Or maybe > > it makes sense to just do another branch for xwayland? > > > > Open to ideas! I'll send a separate message soon on the status of > > mesa-updates and see what people think, but my thought was to merge this > > to master in the next day or so if there are no objections. > > > > Thanks! > > John > > > No worries! I realize I was a little late to the party for the mesa-updates > branch (had some ongoing technical issues), so if core-updates is still early > enough in the process I think it would be good to push the changes to that > branch. The current xwayland is pretty old, and the updated version has quite > a few CVEs fixed in comparison (just > https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Halloween-Bugs-2023 and > https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Holiday-2022 list 8 CVEs fixed > between xwayland 21.1.3 and 23.2.2). I forgot to sent an email when I did this, but a few weeks ago I updated the xorgproto/xwayland update ticket (#66964) to refer to core-updates instead of mesa-updates and sent in a v2 of the patches rebased against core-updates. Cheers, Kaelyn
