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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:43:32
Message-Id: 1519551800.829.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels by Benda Xu
1 W dniu nie, 25.02.2018 o godzinie 18∶25 +0900, użytkownik Benda Xu
2 napisał:
3 > Hi Michał,
4 >
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> writes:
6 >
7 > > > So I would like to hear what you guys think if I:
8 > > >
9 > > > - keep glibc-2.19 and glibc-2.16 in tree and unmasking them in the
10 > > > selected Prefix profiles;
11 > > >
12 > > > - maintain those selected outdated glibc versions on the
13 > > > infrastructure of the Toolchain Project[5];
14 > > >
15 > > > - (optional) add an exception to the toolchain support policy[6].
16 > >
17 > > How about moving them to an overlay?
18 >
19 > I have reflected on this option and concluded it is an overkill to
20 > create an overlay for only 1 package.
21 >
22
23 I don't think this is the first old version Prefix team needs keeping.
24 Another example are old versions of LLVM.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny

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