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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:58:27PM -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: |
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> We actually ran into something along this issue with git. |
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> Now, arm is an interesting keyword, because for arm, when something |
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> needs to be stabled, we have to test armv4, armv5, armv6, armv6 |
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> hardfloat, armv7, armv7 hardfloat, armv7 uclibc. |
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> In my testing, one known issue was that git on uclibc did (and still |
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> doesn't) work properly starting with git 1.8 - so I noted in the bug |
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> that this was the case, and to NOT stable it for arm. Unfortunately, |
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> someone else on the ARM team disregarded the note and stabled the new |
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> git, then the git maintainers dropped the old versions. Now on arm |
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> uclibc, git is entirely broken and unusable. |
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Ugh, this does suck. |
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Wasn't there a proposal years ago to include the libc in the keyword? |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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