| 16 Jun 2026 |
 Capypara | If those three PRs (or at least the GDM fixes) are ok to backport I'd label them? I'm just not sure if a minor GNOME update counts as breaking / how DE updates during a release are handled usually | 17:15:50 |
| Capypara | bobby285271Jan Tojnar
I'd like to help out maintaining GNOME, are any of you active and would be okay with that + maybe outline some steps to properly handle bigger updates - the last few times it was a bit chaotic, I think it would be good to have some solid documentation or maybe even some automation for some things. I think winstonwas also interested in helping out.
| 17:23:20 |
 winston | we should backport them to 26.05 afaik | 17:24:11 |
| Capypara | agree, i'll get an overview of PRs to core package since branch off and add the labels | 17:24:46 |
| Capypara | * | 17:24:56 |
| Capypara | or maybe make one big PR for staging... might be easier to deal with | 17:25:44 |
| winston | there's some automation you can stumble on, e.g.
nix-shell ./maintainers/scripts/update.nix --arg predicate '(path: pkg: pkg.updateScript.name or null == "gnome-update-script")'
which is mentioned in that update.nix script | 17:25:50 |
| winston | I completely missed 50.2 tho as I was busy with other stuff the last 2 weeks, but yea, I'd be interested in helping out 🫡 | 17:26:50 |
| winston | oh yea and regarding GDM, I think the best way to deal with the gdm-greeter UID warning would be to
1) restore 25.11 UIDs so the warning for people upgrading to 26.05 goes away
2) use systemd-userdbd for nixos-unstable so we can get rid of managing the UIDs altogether | 17:31:28 |
| winston | but there's blockers before we can do 2) as I understand, because we'd need to change how nixbld users are created, too | 17:32:04 |
| Capypara | there's also a new issue on this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/529995 which might be related, it reminds me of that issue we had as a blocker for a while in the initial 50 PR | 17:33:05 |
| Capypara | I also really need to get my main PC updated to 26.05. I ran into gdm issues myself a few weeks ago when I tried, but haven't really tried since, I just barely had any time, but really want to help here. Still on 25.11 here. I want to get the backports ready and then probably will try switching to 26.05-staging + backports to get an overview.
My unstable testing VM has been running 50 just fine, even the upgrade went smooth, but I also don't daily drive that one. | 17:36:51 |
| winston | appreciate more people testing and helping with gdm, I've not really been able to learn much more about the issues people are reporting :( | 17:38:39 |
| Capypara | I also hope I'll find some time to look more into it, what we have right now seems very hacky for gdm. but from the brief research I did gdm also seems to have a lot of hardcoded and not well documented preconditions that need to be met for it to really work correctly | 17:40:33 |
 tom | yeah, let's backport.
This was also done for other minor versions in the past. I'm not in front of a computer right now, so feel free to add the label if that does the trick, otherwise I'll do a manual backport as soon as I get to it. :) | 17:43:35 |
| Capypara | * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/517777
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/521789
(edit: nevermind, those were before branch-off, misremebered)
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/530103
| 18:18:51 |
| Capypara | I think btw that bobby is not active on Matrix (or Discourse from what I can see) and Jan was last active in February here | 18:23:31 |
| tom | Just checked out the 50.2 backport, didn't encounter any issues as far as my testing went (see my comments on the backport PR). The remaining open PRs for 50.2 are (all backports):
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/532400
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/530596
| 22:26:50 |
| tom | * Just checked out the 50.2 backport, didn't encounter any issues as far as my testing went (see my comments on the backport PR). The remaining open PRs for 50.2 are all backports now:
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/532400
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/530596
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