Subject: Re: bug#50358: [PATCH core-updates-frozen 0/8] Shortened Rust bootstrap & other fixes.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:57:33 -0500

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This series hasten the Rust bootstrap chain by about half (from about 8 to 4
> hours) and fixes other things reported on the core-updates-frozen branch.
> It's a world-rebuilding series (mostly due to the fix to the source repacking
> code), so we might as well combine it with other world-rebuild changes that
> were being put off.
>
> Maxim Cournoyer (8):
>   guix: packages: Fix repacking of plain tarballs.
>   aux-files: sitecustomize: Cleanup and add explanatory comments.
>   gnu: glade3: Remove sitecustomize.py workaround.
>   gnu: rust: Bootstrap rust from 1.39.0 and optimize build time.
>   gnu: rust: Add rust 1.54 and move all non-bootstrapping logic to it.
>   gnu: Build all Rust packages using the latest rustc.
>   gnu: mozjs-78: Update to 78.13.0.
>   gnu: fontconfig: Add a search path for XDG_DATA_DIRS.

These commits have made it to core-updates-frozen.

Closing!

Maxim