From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: New branch for users of RHEL 6 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:58:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2olqkzk.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewX9h-0003Ce-2W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:59:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewX9b-0002c3-VB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:59:09 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:41248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewX9b-0002Yh-Km for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:59:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9487E7EDA54 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:59:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d0pdtoiKCWAE for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:58:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from HTCAONE.mdc-berlin.net (puck.citx.mdc-berlin.de [141.80.36.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:58:55 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi all, to address problems with running Guix-built software on RHEL 6 due to the low kernel version it reports, I have forked the =E2=80=9Ccore-update= s=E2=80=9D branch containing the glibc patch and pushed it as =E2=80=9Crhel6=E2=80=9D= to the Guix repository on Savannah. The build farm at berlin.guixsd.org is currently building that branch for the x86_64 architecture. If you are stuck on a RHEL 6 system (or a derivate such as CentOS 6) and you see the error =E2=80=9CFATAL: kernel t= oo old=E2=80=9D when running software, you can run =E2=80=9Cguix pull --branch=3Drhel6=E2= =80=9D to use the patched version instead. The =E2=80=9Cmaster=E2=80=9D branch does not ha= ve a sufficient fix for all instances where the kernel version is a problem, and it will only gain the fix once the =E2=80=9Ccore-updates=E2=80=9D branch is merge= d. The =E2=80=9Crhel6=E2=80=9D branch is still being built and it may take a= couple of days before all packages have successfully been built and berlin can provide binary substitutes. Changes to the =E2=80=9Cmaster=E2=80=9D branch will be merged into the =E2= =80=9Crhel6=E2=80=9D branch for some time until =E2=80=9Ccore-updates=E2=80=9D can be merged into =E2= =80=9Cmaster=E2=80=9D. At that time the =E2=80=9Crhel6=E2=80=9D branch will be deleted and users can swi= tch back to =E2=80=9Cmaster=E2=80=9D. -- Ricardo