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On Wednesday 18 March 2009 23:43:50 Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> On 18/03/09 Alan McKinnon said: |
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> > Well, this is gentoo and we don't need no stinking Changelogs on gentoo |
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> > :-) |
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> > |
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> :) |
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> : |
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> > Seriously, you are running a stable arch. All known issues should be |
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> > resolved by the time glibc hits stable. You can always askhere, or look |
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> > at b.g.o for any outstanding issues |
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> Bulgarian Gay Organization? Sorry, googling for b.g.o is dangerous. :) |
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hehehe, that's funny :-) |
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bugs.gentoo.org |
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b.g.o. is the common name used around here. Probably not the most obvious |
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thing in the world though |
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[snip] |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ equery belongs /usr/include/linux/quota.h |
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> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/include/linux/quota.h in *... ] |
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> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 (/usr/include/linux/quota.h) |
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> ulier@anton:~$ uname -a |
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> Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD |
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> Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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> So slightly off but compatible. At some point a newer glibc would simply |
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> fail to build if it's incompatible then, I assume? |
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It is as close to guaranteed to build as you are ever going to get. The public |
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interface to the kernel via it's headers simply does not change in |
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incompatible ways. |
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But if it ever did, then yes, glibc would fail to build |
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> Looking on a CentOS box I see that they package that directory in a package |
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> called glibc-kernheaders. Makes sense... |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mike |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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