[Nix-dev] nixpkgs' glibc 2.9

[Lluís Batlle]

The eglibc people complain about glibc that the version branches in
glibc are barely updated for fixes, and the eglibc people evolve each
2.x branch with fixes.

Maybe the glibc people do that now, but all under the "2.9" name, so
its tarball changing from time to time. :)

2009/8/26 Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> Lluís Batlle wrote:
>
>> I see the origin of the glibc-2.9 in nixpkgs comes from a tarball in
>> the nixos.org server. Then there are two or three patches in nixpkgs
>> applied over that.
>> How does that tarball map to gnu's glibc-2.9 release?
>
> I'm surprised to see that there are official Glibc tarball releases again.  They
> stopped making those at some point.  Everybody was just supposed to do a CVS
> checkout of the appropriate tag and make their own tarball.  (Yes, really.)
>
> Note that the Glibc 2.9 tarball on the GNU server is from 2009-02-26, while 2.9
> was "released" on 2008-11-13.  So they made some retroactive tarballs.
>
> Anyway, this is progress :-)
>
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