On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:41 -0800, Bill Mason wrote: > Hi, Glibc-2.8-20080929 is no longer available on the Red Hat server > mentioned in the LFS book, > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots/glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2. > Should this be added to the errata, with an alternate location provided? I'm > a little surprised that LFS 6.4 is using a CVS snapshot of glibc, but I'm > sure there was a good reason for it.
Just grab a newer 2.8 version then... 20081215 seems to be the current. The short version is that the glibc guys believe a source repository should always be in a releasable state, that checking in unproven code is a no-no. Given that attitude, the most reliable set of code for a given branch (2.8 in this case) should always be the most recent snapshot from that branch, since it'll be as stable as any other, and will have all the available bug fixes for that branch. They were actually at one point looking at not doing releases at all, on the basis that Fedora and Ubuntu and friends could just grab the latest code from version control and ship their distribution with it. That says a *lot* about the confidence they have in their work - I wish more developers could honestly say the same. Simon.
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