On 2/14/2016 12:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
DJ Lucas wrote:
On 2/14/2016 11:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I just found out this morning that glibc-2.23 is to be released soon.
Looking at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.23, it looks like
most of their objectives for the release have been made.
Right now I'm building a full LFS at -j1 for size and time statistics
and have been planning to go through the release process today for
7.9-rc1.
The question is whether we should wait for the latest glibc? I'm not
100% comfortable about updating a critical package just before release.
Waiting will certainly push back the stable release.
There are some security bugs fixed in the latest version:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00535.html
but they look pretty esoteric to me.
It's been a while for me. Initially, I'm also thinking to hold the glibc
upgrade until after release, but want to know what the release cycle is
like now days. Are we talking 1 week RCs?
Generally it is about two weeks. We build all of BLFS against lfs-rc
and release LFS/BLFS together. It takes two weeks to build everything.
In the past we have waited for glibc and occasionally other BLFS packages.
The problem is that whenever we freeze, there is always some package
that is a day or two away from a new version.
-- Bruce
Thanks for the response. I thought about it for a few hours. Obviously
the big worry is that the stable books will be out of date on release
day (and will be for 6 months), but this isn't any different than most
distros. Can we really deem glibc "stable" with only two weeks building
and testing? My _opinion_ is stay with the current version.
--DJ
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