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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:15:19PM +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> The current ISO is installing the stable grimoire which contains a buggy 
>  glibc spell according to:
> 
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7560, Reported 2004-10-22
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7831, Reported 2004-12-16
> 
> To solve this issue at least for building the ISO, an updated glibc 
> spell (available in bug 7560) has been used. This spell is also 
> installed by the ISO on the new system. So the end result is an 
> installed system with a glibc spell NEWER than the one in the installed 
> grimoire. This, according to Arwed, is not the proper way to do (See 
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-January/009378.html).
> 
> Since a working spell is available in bugzilla and since there has been 
> some work on glibc recently, I'd like to know what is the status of this 
> work.
> 
> If it's working, I'd like to know when it will be available in stable. 
> If it's not working or if it will not be in stable before the next ISO 
> release, I'd like to know how the ISO team could provide a working ISO 
> (what spell should be used for building the ISO, on the ISO and 
> installed by the ISO and what grimoire should be installed by the ISO?)
 
The current glibc spell in devel is almost ready to go to test. I added
some stuff to work around problems with the very odd
glibc-kernel-headers setup the 0.9.3 iso installed today, after someone
has tested it on a new install from 0.9.3 it can go to test imo.

Once it's in the test grimoire it will go to stable as soon as it got
some more testing, at most two weeks later.

If that's not soon enough for the next ISO I can probably merge the
stability/upgrade fixes I did for the devel glibc spell into the test
and stable glibc spell.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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