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On Thursday 10 May 2012 15:01:06 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 09.05.2012 15:47, schrieb Mike Frysinger: |
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> > our glibc versions long ago stopped working with linux-2.4 due to NPTL |
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> > being required. further, we've long set the min kernel version to 2.6.9 |
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> > in the ebuild itself. so bumping it to 2.6.16 isn't a stretch. |
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> > the driving force here is that glibc upstream is looking to set the min |
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> > kernel version to 2.6.16. if there's no real incentive for us to |
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> > support anything older, then we'll follow suite. |
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> Can you please keep an old version in the tree? Masked if necessary. |
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> There are still virtual private server hosts out there using 2.6.9 |
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> (usually old Red Hat or SuSE servers) and with OpenVZ you cannot deploy |
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> your own kernel. |
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it takes a while for older versions to expire from the main tree, and when |
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they do, they just get shifted to the toolchain overlay. so it should be easy |
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for you to add that overlay and pull older glibcs from there. |
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for example, there's a glibc-2.9 ebuild still which has been around for 3 |
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years at this point, so consider this a 3 year notice :P. |
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-mike |