From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A3F138247 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16110E0C29; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23DD7E0C07 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E3B33F827 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:56:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.18 heading to ~arch in next ~week Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:56:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.12.1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201401190552.49079.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart10470369.IjXR1CN0u5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201401200056.25272.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5544e329-cb1e-4e3e-a308-cf351e0e2f07 X-Archives-Hash: dc47b2af933630e82762849e7067e336 --nextPart10470369.IjXR1CN0u5 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 19 January 2014 13:07:24 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 05:52:48AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > with glibc-2.17 in stable now and glibc-2.19 release in like ~2 weeks, > > glibc 2.18 is heading to ~arch. there's been very little reported > > breakage reported thus far ... i hope it's because there isn't any vs > > people aren't using it. so if people want to try it out ahead of time, > > that'd be nice. >=20 > What ever happened with the rpc/libtirpc changes? unfortunately libtirpc isn't feature complete with glibc. so upstream glib= c=20 reverted the rpc removal and made it into a configure time flag which Gento= o has=20 enabled (i.e. we ship rpc headers/linkable symbols). which is why the bug= =20 onslaught died down. this doesn't preclude anyone from switching their package today to libtirpc= ;=20 there are a good number of packages where the functionality it provides is= =20 sufficient. in fact, you generally want to do that: - you'll get IPv6 support (which glibc refuses to add) - it'll make packages work on other C libraries (like uClibc) - will let us stop enabling rpc functionality in glibc (we want) - other extensions being added to libtirpc? we still have the tracker open: https://bugs.gentoo.org/381391 > Will packages that used RPC headers from glibc need more changes, and if > so, what? the idea was to make libtirpc have general feature parity with glibc. ther= e's=20 very few people working on this upstream though (the few maintainers are=20 common NFS peeps so they tend to focus more on that). still, some=20 functionality is being added slowly. =2Dmike --nextPart10470369.IjXR1CN0u5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJS3LqJAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBYFMQAIcRQuVSFQ3jHbJ4erGwO6g/ PGZ7kYmyhDyc0/Ju6tc+F3MIuG7noVSc7vhvRwBUksU430rpbWDVdRah1ODAabhU Bx+klTgBcFaaSIWW4Z2Hqk2Oc+d9k+Kg/u207r2b50ZCcbksjmeWjoMLiONE5PEf m8nGm0WH0OqiVwgGDiWJ3m7mxbA/F/NLAj0F6Gdmglpo8QHov271vWQrXaXPZ6cd n+FTw2EE2V4Tz6f297xz/sirI0MX7w0cnHuFEK+OMdzHbLchwkQz76kMQ7nh6lLc bc2alUyJxm92zRj0EdrpJizxBKCC8i+32ccIthNz8HSjXZ4nAVVRv6ZealVzb6Uu e22ns6pUfQSAddOdrN7RqY2gtWIFLdml82dDfHDl+fZ794Ge/zgeeARuLH0g1h5I eRdGFgqn7Q7XplB94bqjZwwz6TU3XXrDIFbk/bfbvlPBX2FOPOIE4O5i8xDr04Ra NAW//bWzDKASJx7VD6rd6nxwiPanJSIAe5V7lefLUIWMtySWETtVi0ZVDumJu1BI 9t7HYWOA0EY9jzbDnHgEfsEXiNY3EQm5r8lHI1TSUWhQELApZ7dLA0mxV9bSugcG N0sx12rdRkvakq2xNxhn52o0FHLYGnVwFoekDXhzUeVSQ7CX6+syqNd37Gm8kGhx rI6VNWAobTEhCr867NYC =5yQa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10470369.IjXR1CN0u5--