[Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:42:37PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Eelco Dolstra
> <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> >
> >>>> But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above.
> >>>
> >>> Stdenv has "--enable-kernel=2.6.35".
> >>
> >> Do you favour a higher value?
> >
> > Is there a good reason for a higher value?  Certainly it can't be higher than
> > 3.2 since that's our default kernel.  And of course people may well want to run
> > Nixpkgs on Linux distributions that have much older kernels.
> I would still opt for choosing --enable-kernel=3.2 (our current default kernel)
> That way, people can keep on using their old/current kernels on stdenv
> merge, and on every future stdenv-upgrade we move this number up to
> the previous default kernel version.
> 
> A glibc-compat package (with --enable-kernel=2.6.16, which is
> glibc2.17's minimum anyway) will probably do the trick for people who
> want to test old kernel configs (yes this will cause rebuilds for
> them, but I think most usecases for these setup aren't that big and
> don't change too often)

The whole proposal sounds perfect to me.