From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlHeu-0004Ay-0Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:36:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33726E07D2; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3CAE07D2 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so2726805eyf.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:36:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=OEfbrRrmwyCu12WzR/LRCyKSd5Ylf/jiITb/UGPnuzM=; b=amTZLBadcbluOi19IrQsXdB2HODdTLffvWkxGh8CQku784Ka4lbd7/4EoOcrp+cQlD ujDPOf2SKk6xHF3LDZTkLlr/tEC6ZjxVgC8fHo2BssFxOtVhniY7Av8QXgJktBo1/pdD k0r93h62wNc++YFkLozXMZ5q2VB5B0VuuWKGg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZJeKZYL1JdGfBmPIyVAc5BG/Ltzj/c0IOlbdIFbOvOoOqXSeqQdMLqGps6CuNtFV0B LF/nF8zixZLxxrEQ9sPBr+UVc+MmT3KYbpucd4QjgFlVwm1BELWjj6x/mzWGIS8lr52b lTcXbeaUjZeOLJpzZ8D6ciWyd2nQ5MSwwwwzk= Received: by 10.213.113.12 with SMTP id y12mr5764885ebp.53.1282034167424; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v8sm11640033eeh.20.2010.08.17.01.36.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:36:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:33:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201008171033.09425.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2cf2e51e-ac86-428a-849e-1cf8631785c4 X-Archives-Hash: 15a9cd442548f95e2203d2f30530d5e0 Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and=20 downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find = at=20 this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous: And if you say that =E2=80=9Cthe new GLIBC works for me=E2=80=9D, are you s= aying that the=20 package itself builds or if it=E2=80=99s actually integrated correctly? Bec= ause, you=20 know, I used to rebuild the whole system whenever I made a change to basic= =20 system packages when I maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it=E2=80= =99s ready=20 for ~arch when you haven=E2=80=99t even rebuilt the system (and you haven= =E2=80=99t, or you=20 would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something I=E2=80=99d = define as=20 reckless and I=E2=80=99d venture to say you=E2=80=99re not good material to= work on the=20 quality assurance status. =E2=80=9Ccorrectness=E2=80=9D in the case of the system C library would be = =E2=80=9Cit a t least=20 leaves the system set building and running=E2=80=9D; glibc 2.12 does not wo= rk this=20 way. =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com