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On 12/21/2014 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> the following is a comment Mike made about the status of glibc in |
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> an earlier thread on this list: |
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> On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:16:52AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your |
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>> choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library |
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>> - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while |
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>> be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to |
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>> glibc-2.19. this includes security fixes, but more importantly as |
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>> time moves on, making newer gcc versions sanely compile glibc. |
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>> we've kept older glibc versions around to be nice, and on a part |
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>> time basis for cross-compiling, but none of those are given |
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>> priority. i.e. fixes come as people feel like doing them. |
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>> certainly once glibc-2.20+ goes stable, there is no expectation |
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>> let alone requirement that packages in the tree be kept working |
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>> with older glibc versions. the maintenance cost there is |
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>> unreasonable. |
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>> i guess if you're stuck on old crap, now would be a good time to |
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>> start preparing to unstick your crap. glibc-2.20 will most |
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>> likely be in ~arch in the next 6 months. -mike |
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> Since glibc-2.19-r1 is stable everywhere, what I want to know is |
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> whether we can remove versions *prior* to 2.19-r1 at this point. |
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> If we do, that makes it easy to fix bug 478764 [1], because there |
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> would only be three versions of glibc we have to worry about. |
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> thoughts? |
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> William |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478764 |
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I suppose it makes sense to drop old glibc ebuilds. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras |
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