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 1OlOFf-00056M-9O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:39:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2FBBE0A5F; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84962E0A5F for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so3582688ewy.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:38:00 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=YHgYdknflqAl58B2ZQ/ftRuFkuYSk6kg+mo9ZYIY4WM=; b=ETtXOrhDbDJDStwaGJFh0fKXrEA1WQ/QLexWkk+JDjgycynDF4MywFKY7IrGF1pnIr ADVbd9SSUkPT5ogURxI6QnCltSk86Z6/MYHR4TjlQ5IMZPZ1a9H4LzTIAgwatPlu3ruH HC0VMyrQ7GR/MBbOKuPwavERZuZoh9YrxUvP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=uiYZseKyld1uyOyAmjJfve/EV8cWnJ0WbScYWyKuiLJYsOgY8wdnYRAIKKDetgam9a LSkmSixluwQq4byVdbPHsRtNxmUiDP+SS8PUU2gmicBUNBNwJFexEKnAlVIPko84EFhy r2lHEP5tcQdJ6f2eWmlk97upI7tnQnb3u/i5c= Received: by 10.213.14.78 with SMTP id f14mr907967eba.79.1282059480884; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v59sm12292228eeh.22.2010.08.17.08.37.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:34:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201008171033.09425.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201008171421.35070.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <201008171421.35070.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> 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: <201008171734.59882.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4cb3a5cf-6120-4798-81e5-82f45353da05 X-Archives-Hash: 96d45b2ade7809fb76e1717eece5ef32 On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? > >=20 > > I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, > > and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only > > comment I can find at this early stage is flameeye's blog, and > > this makes me quadruple nervous: > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > And if you say that =E2=80=9Cthe new GLIBC works for me=E2=80=9D, are y= ou saying > > that the package itself builds or if it=E2=80=99s actually integrated > > correctly? Because, you know, I used to rebuild the whole system > > whenever I made a change to basic system packages when I > > maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it=E2=80=99s ready for ~arch > > when you haven=E2=80=99t even rebuilt the system (and you haven=E2=80= =99t, or you > > would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something > > I=E2=80=99d define as reckless and I=E2=80=99d venture to say you=E2=80= =99re not good > > material to work on the quality assurance status. > >=20 > > =E2=80=9Ccorrectness=E2=80=9D in the case of the system C library would= be =E2=80=9Cit a > > t least leaves the system set building and running=E2=80=9D; glibc 2.12 > > does not work this way. >=20 > OK here on ~amd64, but you got me worried so I emerged m4 to check > and that went OK too. I got a couple of replies, all like this one - positive. Thanks, all. I'll start the update later on tonight and let 'er run. =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com