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On Friday, February 13, 2009 07:27:04 Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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> Guillaume Castagnino schrieb: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I noticed this in hardened profile : |
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> > # Mask off anything greater than glibc-2.6.x for now. |
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> > # 2009-02-11 gengor |
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> > |
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> >> =sys-libs/glibc-2.7 |
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> > |
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> > Is there any good (means "critical") reason for this downgrade ? |
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> > Because it causes problem with some packages that needs higher glibc |
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> > version. For example : |
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> > - iproute2 needs >=glibc-2.7 |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > ('installed', '/', 'sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1', 'nomerge') pulled |
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> > in by |
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> > |
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> > >=sys-libs/glibc-2.7 required by ('installed', '/', 'sys- |
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> > |
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> > apps/iproute2-2.6.28', 'nomerge') |
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> > (and 12 more) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for your feedback |
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> > |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Guillaume |
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> |
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> I talked to gengor yesterday, so i just copy some lines from IRC: |
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> Feb 12 21:34:28 <gengor> Tommy[D]: because I haven't tested it against |
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> stable + stable kernel. Feb 12 21:37:57 <gengor> its safe because stable |
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> glibc (2.6.1) doesn't take advantage of any new API's between 2.6.{25,26} |
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> -> 2.6.27. I don't know about the newer glibc though, hence the mask. Feb |
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> 12 21:38:54 <gengor> it was fine to leave it that way when glibc was |
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> unstable (because those who run unstable should know what they are doing |
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> and be running unstable kernel too). But they're moving on glibc-2.8 |
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> stabilization right now. |
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> Feb 12 21:40:33 <gengor> and there are still some minor lingering issues w/ |
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> 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 so I don't want to mark it stable yet. Although we're |
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> getting to the point 2.6.26 is becoming out of date, not getting updates |
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> from mainline and I don't have time for a bunch of backports this time |
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> around - so my hand may be forced at some point. |
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In the future please refrain from cutting and pasting select bits of |
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conversation from IRC out of context. Or any IRC conversation for that |
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matter. You don't even realize that the bits you selected for cut/paste |
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don't even make sense w/o the other parts of the conversation. This is very |
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fscking rude. |
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To OP: If you've already upgraded your glibc then you've package.keyworded |
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it, so why not just package.unmask it as well? You're not forced to |
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downgrade. |
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