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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:21:01
Message-Id: 20180228102036.6d13cd2d@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:10:13 +0100
2 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > another option would be to (try to) revive glibc-2.5, 2.12, and 2.17 instead.
5 >
6 > Yes I know they are even older, but these are the versions that RHEL uses, and
7 > for which RH still provides support (until 2020 for 2.5, 2024 for 2.12)...
8 > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#Distribution_Branch_Mapping
9 >
10 > That however would require that the RHEL patchsets are public somehwere. Which
11 > I doubt... after all there's an "E" in RHEL...
12
13 You maybe won't get the full details of the changes but all the patches
14 are here. This looks like a much better breakdown than you get with
15 their kernel patches.
16
17 https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!glibc.git
18
19 --
20 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
21 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>