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Beta approaches. :-)

An update from our BDFL. :)

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Mon Jan 18 13:50:16 UTC 2021

Hey folks, a little status update here. First, huge thanks are due to

nobodino for helping to shake out packages that weren't building from source.

With all those fixes in place (plus a few more), we have tested and found that

everything in the tree compiles cleanly against glibc-2.32. So, the plan is to

have another mass rebuild soon against that. Although the ABI didn't

technically change, I've heard that libpthread may not be 100% compatible in

some corner cases, so we'll err on the side of caution. Hopefully we can get a

little testing done on the recompiled system and then go through it all again

at the beginning of next month when glibc-2.33 is released. Other than that,

how's Mesa working these days? If there are still issues that are resolved by

dropping back to the previous branch, let's try to figure those out. I'd rather

not revert Mesa unless there's no other choice. I'm hoping that the (probably

unrelated) issues with Intel video hardware will be helped by today's

xorg-server patch that uses the modesetting driver with newer chipsets. Please

report any improvement on the LQ thread.

Beta approaches. :-)

a/sysklogd-2.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

d/distcc-3.3.5-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Properly install distccmon-gnome.desktop. Thanks to marco70.

d/python-setuptools-51.3.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

l/imagemagick-7.0.10_58-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

l/libodfgen-0.1.8-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

l/libsigsegv-2.13-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

n/inetd-1.79s-x86_64-12.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Rebuilt to link with libtirpc. Thanks to nobodino.

n/nftables-0.9.8-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

n/postfix-3.5.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

n/tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-4.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Use strerror(), not sys_errlist(). Thanks to nobodino.

x/xorg-server-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Only use the Intel DDX with pre-gen4 hardware. Newer hardware will use the

  modesetting driver.

x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.

x/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.

x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.

x/xorg-server-xwayland-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.

xfce/xfce4-appfinder-4.16.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

+--------------------------+

Almost...nearly...but not quite...there.

I'll play Duke Nukem on it when it's here

Oh well, thought I'd get the worm, but apparently not. Life goes on...

We haven't ever been closer to beta than today! But, is that really new? This has been the case every day since Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016 :D

Who can help?
Who can abet a better beta?

You must compile glibc, WITH... a Herring!

He's called "Tim" because JC forgot the name he was meant to use and ad-libbed, hence the overly long pause in the dialog. The others just went with it. Or, at least, that's the story I heard. ;)

Ni!

Never upgraded a mass rebuild of current, but it'll be fun :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by dodoLQ (Post 6209670)

Never upgraded a mass rebuild of current, but it'll be fun :D

Yeah, certainly a mass rebuild against a new GLIBC would be very fun. :D

Imagine something like a carpet bombing crashing... ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dodoLQ (Post 6209670)

Never upgraded a mass rebuild of current, but it'll be fun :D

Mass rebuild or not, if glibc changes, then upgrade it first. It's like upgrading a Slackware version. Read UPGRADE.TXT 0-2 and read the change log for further hints. I don't know if that's what slackpkg does, but it's what I've always done. Also I do the same if aaa_elflibs changes. Usually that's all that's needed. If you do this, and Pat usually puts enough warning in the change log in current when breakages can occur, that you avoid breakage. Of course, there can be unexpected things, which is why current is not a good idea on production systems.

Woohoo, I can't wait to be a beta male, and then an rc male. ;)

Quote:

Updates, updates, every day,
Show that fifteen's on its way.

-- Sonnet 153, W.Shakespeare

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL (Post 6209837)

-- Sonnet 153, W.Shakespeare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_153

thank you brianL for this W.Shakespeare sonnet i didn't know about while summarizing my day : ) , what a talented writer.
"The speaker discovers the only thing that can cure his discomfort is a glance from his mistress"