Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/22/14 16:37, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> >> Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 18:24:32 schrieb Anthony G. Basile: >> Well the side effect of this is that arcane and unmaintainable bandworms like toolchain.eclass are generated

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Duncan
Anthony G. Basile posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:36:44 -0500 as excerpted: > I've watched musl and uclibc and just hit up against the glibc changes > as they mysteriously rain down from Drepper. Just a quick reply to this side point... There's no indication in your post that you're aware that Dre

[gentoo-dev] git.gentoo.org/git.overlays.gentoo.org upgrades, 2014/12/24 & 2014/12/26

2014-12-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, I'm going to be doing some upgrades of Gitolite on our Git services, it'll be split between Dec 24th and Dec 26th. Watch #gentoo-dev IRC topic for a more live report of times, but I expect the outage portions to be under 45 minutes collectively. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Devel

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/fixdos

2014-12-23 Thread Markos Chandras
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Matthias Maier
Am 23. Dec 2014, 16:51 schrieb William Hubbs : >> just the simple fact that crossdev without the ability to select >> specific versions of glibc is only half as useful. And please, do not >> underestimate the usefulness of our crossdev script in this regard! > > I'm not saying anything about b

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 09:46:28AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/23/14 09:39, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:45:49AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> All, > >>> > >>> this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Matthias Maier wrote: > I'm a bit surprised about this discussion as Mike, who currently > maintains the toolchain, has never implied that suddenly older versions > of glibc are unusable. Or that we need a big cleanup. > > He simply stated two facts (that

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/23/14 09:39, William Hubbs wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:45:49AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote: All, this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which was not my intent; let's go back to my specific question about glibc. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:45:49AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which was not my intent; > > let's go back to my specific question about glibc. > > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100,

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote: All, this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which was not my intent; let's go back to my specific question about glibc. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: some of such software is binary, some other is too large to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/22/14 16:37, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 18:24:32 schrieb Anthony G. Basile: Well the side effect of this is that arcane and unmaintainable bandworms like toolchain.eclass are generated, with dozens of case distinctions for packages that *nearly* noone needs. Y

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > Because of that, i see no reason to keep the older versions of glibc > around. This would also give us a chance to clean up the ebuilds without > causing massive breakage. the eblits need to die. > Who is actually maintaining glibc, and w

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-23 Thread Matthias Maier
I'm a bit surprised about this discussion as Mike, who currently maintains the toolchain, has never implied that suddenly older versions of glibc are unusable. Or that we need a big cleanup. He simply stated two facts (that have been true for a long time) - for a current kernel a current toolcha