Bug 505154

Summary:	Please remove or mask older sys-libs/glibc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.