[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

[Duncan]

Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:44:20 -0700 as excerpted:

> On 30/10/2012 00:22, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> reminder: plan on landing this week.  glibc-2.17 is in the process of
>> shaking out upstream.
>
> *shrug* we've got the warning so it's fair for it to land. I recommend
> people who're using ~arch to mask it on their systems for a short while
> though, as we still have quite a few failures that haven't been solved —
> but if they haven't been solved this month they'll require the
> maintainer to stumble across them *hard*.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=glibc-2.16

FWIW, I unmasked and have been running glibc-2.16 since a couple days 
after the earlier announcement.  I had boost-1.50 unmasked and merged 
before trying glibc-2.16, so that wasn't a problem, and...

> Speaking of which, I confirm my plan to unmask GnuTLS 3.1 for basically
> the same reason. Upstream is moving on to new versions, we're behind one
> major and one minor right now.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gnutls-3

... I've been running gnutls-3.x for some time (at one point it was 
needed for the live-git pan I run), tho I had to remask gnutls-3.1.3 as I 
experienced some problem (IDR what) with it.  But I'm running 3.1.2 
without issue.

What gnutls-3.1.x are you planning to unmask?  Do I need to try 3.1.3 
again and file a bug (if there's not one filed already) if the problem 
still exists, or is 3.1.2 good enough?

FWIW, I also recently did a full emerge --empty-tree @world too, so there 
shouldn't be any hidden problems lurking around to bite on either 
package, at least with my @world and USE flag combo, either.

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