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[Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:11:34 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> There appears to be no source for the current linux-headers tarball for
> powerpc architecture, meaning glibc may not be buildable in fresh
> powerpc installs or, likely, in several other architectures.
> 
> The linux-headers tar files were both generated and hosted by a mage who
> has since quit smgl. If he ever generated a powerpc file when he last
> bumped the version, it has been lost. The current SMGL mirrors only
> popular files, making it not useful for this critical file. I've written
> a couple of suggestions and notes in bug #14581. I'll reproduce them
> here. This seems crtical enough to me to be worth cross-posting to the
> bugtracker and here.
Eric or David both have some tarballs. I wish they'd coordinate and get the
full set to what they have. Aparently David reformatted his webserver for
whatever reasons and our linux-header tarballs died in the process.

> Also: The spell uses a single ${HEADERS_VERSION} for all header files.
> This
> seems somewhat impractical to me, as it requires one maintainer to
> attempt to
> upgrade all architectures, or forces all architecture maintainers to get
> and
> configure the same kernel version. Note also that the kernel must be
> configured
> on a machine (or vm) of the chosen architecture for it's headers to be
> useful.
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14581

I posted something as comment #2. I wish we could also keep the discussion on
the bug, so all of us can track it better.

PS: Ethan, sorry for the dupe.

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