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W dniu nie, 25.02.2018 o godzinie 15∶17 +0900, użytkownik Benda Xu |
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napisał: |
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> Hi all, |
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> |
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> Yes, it's 2018. But there are still RHEL 4 and 5 systems running |
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> antique kernels such as 2.6.8 and 2.6.18. In my experience, many of |
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> them are data acquisition hubs or computing clusters. No administrator |
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> cares about security as long as they "work". |
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> Under the form "Prefix", Gentoo is set out to rescue users trapped in |
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> these abandoned wastelands of antiques. After years of work, we have |
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> achieved that goal, except one minor thing: glibc periodically drop |
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> support for old linux kernels, the lastest glibc supporting linux 2.6.8 |
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> is 2.16 and for linux-2.6.18 it is glibc-2.19. |
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> With the recent reunion of the Toolchain Project, old glibc versions are |
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> masked and removed, accelerating the adoption of new versions. This |
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> opens a new oppotunity for the Prefix: people stops caring about |
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> unsupported glibc versions, the Prefix Project can take them over |
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> without worrying about breaking other peoples' machines. |
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> |
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> Now, profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix/kernel-2.6.16+ |
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> unmasks <glibc-2.18. Some pathes needs to be backported, like the |
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> /lib/gentoo/functions.sh transition. prefix/kernel-2.6+ with glibc-2.16 |
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> is also planned. In addition, glibc have to be patched to get python3 |
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> built[1-3], which is urgent once portage drops python2[4]. |
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> So I would like to hear what you guys think if I: |
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> - keep glibc-2.19 and glibc-2.16 in tree and unmasking them in the |
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> selected Prefix profiles; |
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> - maintain those selected outdated glibc versions on the |
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> infrastructure of the Toolchain Project[5]; |
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> - (optional) add an exception to the toolchain support policy[6]. |
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How about moving them to an overlay? |
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> Thanks and cheers! |
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> Benda |
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> 1. https://bugs.python.org/issue28092 |
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> 2. https://bugs.python.org/issue31255 |
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> 3. https://bugs.python.org/issue29157 |
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> 4. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/7eb61502d827476a9326b0f180dbd2fa |
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> 5. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/Patchsets_with_Git |
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> 6. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/Support_policies |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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