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 D752913877A for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCD4AE0948; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:20:23 +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 12D1EE0922 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (mobile-internet-5d6a02-186.dhcp.inet.fi [93.106.2.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E17933EB08 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53DE36FA.2010400@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:19:54 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32 References: <1839476.CY3ocDWS18@vapier> In-Reply-To: <1839476.CY3ocDWS18@vapier> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: efc862fb-6acf-450d-bdc3-49eb97471824 X-Archives-Hash: 4cf24b1f58459b76b149447d5a7e2e2b On 03/08/14 16:16, Mike Frysinger wrote: > upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choices: > - upgrade your kernel > - switch to a different C library > - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while > > be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to glibc-2.19. > this includes security fixes, but more importantly as time moves on, making > newer gcc versions sanely compile glibc. we've kept older glibc versions > around to be nice, and on a part time basis for cross-compiling, but none of > those are given priority. i.e. fixes come as people feel like doing them. > > certainly once glibc-2.20+ goes stable, there is no expectation let alone > requirement that packages in the tree be kept working with older glibc > versions. the maintenance cost there is unreasonable. > > i guess if you're stuck on old crap, now would be a good time to start > preparing to unstick your crap. glibc-2.20 will most likely be in ~arch in > the next 6 months. > -mike use of 2.6.32 needs ~sys-fs/udev-208 (kept around for late 2.6.32 patchsets) use of current udev needs at least 2.6.39 for CONFIG_FHANDLE so there's more problems with running such a old kernel than just glibc just saying