From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: 30537@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 06:52:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180220115221.GA17373@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220012229.GA28522@jasmine.lan>
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> My questions are, how does the glibc team choose the minimum kernel
> version? What could go wrong if we apply this patch and somebody uses
> Guix on a pre-3.2.0 kernel?
>
> Perhaps they simply chose to not support glibc on any kernel that is not
> supported upstream; 3.2.x is the oldest supported release series. But,
> we should have some idea of their reasoning, in my opinion.
As far as I can tell, the discussion started on the libc-alpha mailing
list in January 2016:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00885.html
... and continued into February:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00002.html
These messages can provide some useful context.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 18:46 glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 18:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 19:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 19:28 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 21:22 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 22:46 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 19:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 20:28 ` bug#30537: " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-02-21 23:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-22 20:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-22 20:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-23 22:01 ` bug#30537: Grafts vs. early bootstrapping packages Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-21 23:12 ` bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Mark H Weaver
2018-02-19 19:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 1:22 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-20 11:52 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2018-02-20 12:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 12:51 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-20 14:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 17:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 9:39 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-23 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-23 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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