Bug 237203 – sys-libs/glibc: version bump

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrey Vul 2008-09-09 17:19:58 UTC]

Glibc 2.8 was recently released. However, there is no ebuild for it (the most recent is sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602). Having glibc-2.8 in the Portage tree may help with the regression bugs found when searching "ALL glibc 2.8".

Reproducible: Didn't try

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[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2008-09-09 19:01:28 UTC]

GLibC 2.8 was released on 2008-04-11.
GLibC tarballs are no longer created, so Gentoo uses GLibC snapshots.

glibc-2.8-20080602.tar.bz2 and glibc-2.8-20080908.tar.bz2 contain identical contents.

Also note that sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602 is newer that hypothetical sys-libs/glibc-2.8.

[Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-09-09 19:42:40 UTC]

Thanks for the suggestion, but Arfrever is correct about new glibc policy
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2008-05/msg00074.html

So, nothing to be done for this bug... closing.

[Comment 3 Andrey Vul 2008-09-09 21:21:27 UTC]

Ah, so p20080602 is the cvs get of the 2.8 release branch?

[Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2008-09-10 12:50:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Ah, so p20080602 is the cvs get of the 2.8 release branch?

Snapshots come from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots