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commit: 6481c7c90949d466b4635df2f8dda29024e7221e |
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Author: Anthony G. Basile <blueness <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Mon Sep 26 22:29:00 2016 +0000 |
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Commit: Anthony G. Basile <blueness <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Mon Sep 26 22:29:00 2016 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=6481c7c9 |
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Add news item for migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng |
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Signed-off-by: Anthony G. Basile <blueness <AT> gentoo.org> |
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...16-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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...9-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt.asc | 17 ++++++++ |
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diff --git a/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt b/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt |
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+++ b/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt |
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+Title: Migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng |
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+Author: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> |
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+Content-Type: text/plain |
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+Posted: 2016-09-26 |
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+Revision: 1 |
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+News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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+Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/uclibc |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/amd64 |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/amd64 |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/arm/armv7a |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/arm/armv7a |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/mips |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/mips |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/ppc |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/ppc |
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+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/x86 |
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+Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/x86 |
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+ |
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+Upstream development of uClibc has been stalled since July 2015 and |
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+there hasn't been a proper release since May 2012 [1]. New patches |
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+addressing important issues have been submitted but these have not been |
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+reviewed nor have they been committed to the master branch. Also, |
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+backporting even those patches which have been committed to master is |
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+now impractical as too many intermediate layers of patches conflict. |
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+For all intents and purposes, upstream uClibc is dead. |
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+ |
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+Fortunately, a fork called uClibc-ng [2] was begun by Waldemar Brodkorb |
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+in February 2015 and is actively being maintained. Accordingly, |
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+Gentoo's Hardened uClibc project will be migrating to uClibc-ng as its |
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+libc provider. Currently stage3 tarballs based on sys-libs/uclibc-ng |
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+are available for all supported arches at [3] and these will become the |
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+default after October 5, 2016. Older stage3s based on sys-libs/uclibc |
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+will be removed. |
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+ |
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+Unfortunately, migrating a production system from uclibc to uclibc-ng |
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+is not straightforward owing to the central role played by libc. A |
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+migration guide is provided at [4]. This has been tested on live |
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+systems with success, but the user is cautioned to plan a backup and |
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+recovery plan should something go wrong. |
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+ |
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+Refs. |
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+[1] https://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/log/ |
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+[2] http://uclibc-ng.org/ |
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+[3] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/ |
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+[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc#Migration_to_uClibc-ng |
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diff --git a/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt.asc b/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng/2016-09-26-migration-to-sys-libs_uclibc-ng.en.txt.asc |
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index 0000000..96dde39 |
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