W dniu nie, 25.02.2018 o godzinie 15∶17 +0900, użytkownik Benda Xu napisał: > Hi all, > > Yes, it's 2018. But there are still RHEL 4 and 5 systems running > antique kernels such as 2.6.8 and 2.6.18. In my experience, many of > them are data acquisition hubs or computing clusters. No administrator > cares about security as long as they "work". > > Under the form "Prefix", Gentoo is set out to rescue users trapped in > these abandoned wastelands of antiques. After years of work, we have > achieved that goal, except one minor thing: glibc periodically drop > support for old linux kernels, the lastest glibc supporting linux 2.6.8 > is 2.16 and for linux-2.6.18 it is glibc-2.19. > > With the recent reunion of the Toolchain Project, old glibc versions are > masked and removed, accelerating the adoption of new versions. This > opens a new oppotunity for the Prefix: people stops caring about > unsupported glibc versions, the Prefix Project can take them over > without worrying about breaking other peoples' machines. > > Now, profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix/kernel-2.6.16+ > unmasks <glibc-2.18. Some pathes needs to be backported, like the > /lib/gentoo/functions.sh transition. prefix/kernel-2.6+ with glibc-2.16 > is also planned. In addition, glibc have to be patched to get python3 > built[1-3], which is urgent once portage drops python2[4]. > > > So I would like to hear what you guys think if I: > > - keep glibc-2.19 and glibc-2.16 in tree and unmasking them in the > selected Prefix profiles; > > - maintain those selected outdated glibc versions on the > infrastructure of the Toolchain Project[5]; > > - (optional) add an exception to the toolchain support policy[6].
How about moving them to an overlay? > > Thanks and cheers! > Benda > > 1. https://bugs.python.org/issue28092 > 2. https://bugs.python.org/issue31255 > 3. https://bugs.python.org/issue29157 > 4. > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/7eb61502d827476a9326b0f180dbd2fa > 5. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/Patchsets_with_Git > 6. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/Support_policies > -- Best regards, Michał Górny
