Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!
Bug 505154 - Please remove or mask older sys-libs/glibc
Summary: Please remove or mask older sys-libs/glibc
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-03-20 11:06 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2014-03-21 00:42 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-20 11:06:20 UTC 
Now, the security policies, includes that we should not have packages affected from security bugs in the tree.

If you want to keep old glibc, please mask them.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-03-20 18:44:02 UTC 
it's already not possible to downgrade glibc -- the ebuild itself will abort.  so removing/masking "solves" a problem that doesn't exist.
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-20 20:09:47 UTC 
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #1)
> it's already not possible to downgrade glibc -- the ebuild itself will
> abort.  so removing/masking "solves" a problem that doesn't exist.

So for which purpose they are in the tree?
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-03-21 00:42:25 UTC 
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #2)

cross-compilers mostly.  we also have older ones for people who can't upgrade to linux-2.6.16 or newer.  over time we already migrate things from the main tree to the toolchain overlay, but i see no reason to accelerate the natural course of things for a non-issue.