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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:10:35
Message-Id: 2313236.WXWrOG7ovh@porto
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels by Benda Xu
1 Am Sonntag, 25. Februar 2018, 07:17:47 CET schrieb Benda Xu:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > Yes, it's 2018. But there are still RHEL 4 and 5 systems running
5 > antique kernels such as 2.6.8 and 2.6.18...
6
7 Benda,
8
9 another option would be to (try to) revive glibc-2.5, 2.12, and 2.17 instead.
10
11 Yes I know they are even older, but these are the versions that RHEL uses, and
12 for which RH still provides support (until 2020 for 2.5, 2024 for 2.12)...
13 https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#Distribution_Branch_Mapping
14
15 That however would require that the RHEL patchsets are public somehwere. Which
16 I doubt... after all there's an "E" in RHEL...
17
18 Cheers,
19 Andreas
20
21 --
22 Andreas K. Hüttel
23 dilfridge@g.o
24 Gentoo Linux developer
25 (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>