Hello Guix! We’ve been carrying a libc patch that allows us to potentially run binaries on systems running the CentOS 6 kernel—a heavily-patched Linux 2.6 that resembles 3.0 but identifies itself as 2.6.32.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch Back in 2018, this was deemed important for HPC clusters, where CentOS 6 was then relatively common, as Ricardo explained: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-02/msg00392.html Five years later, it seems reasonable to drop the patch (which is likely untested these days). If you disagree, now’s the time to make your voice heard! With the upcoming glibc upgrade in the ‘core-updates’ branch¹, glibc would require Linux >= 3.2.0, as is already the case on ‘master’ if we omit this faux-2.6.32 exception. It’s still weeks, or perhaps months, before ‘core-updates’ is merged, but the sooner we discuss this, the better! Ludo’. ¹ https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67686
