Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-08-01 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/31/2014 07:41 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: To expand on this just a bit, the s/390 ABI break was done by the s/390 glibc port maintainers and was done intentionally. This wasn't a "oops, we accidentally broke the ABI" bug. It was something the s/390 maintainers decided was of minimal concern and

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 23:05:21 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: the latest commit. I've been doing regular rebases for a while now (almost a year AFAICT) and IIRC we have had just one serious problem last week where i686 boxes got bricked. In the end it was found to be a gcc bug that misco

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Dan HorĂ¡k
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:19:49 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > > There is however one change that the s/390 > > > folks will find painful - s/390 broke ABI in 2.19 without a

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > There is however one change that the s/390 > > folks will find painful - s/390 broke ABI in 2.19 without a proper > > justification and that is now going to be reverted in 2.20 (an

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> However the previous problem(s -- multiple) was glibc using >> non-Rawhide for integration testing, especially just while we were >> trying to stablise Fedora for a

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:03:45AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Yes. My concern is that glibc is using Rawhide as their continuous > integration sandbox to shake out bugs as opposed to doing it elsewhere and > just taking care of integration of releases when they are ready. If this > viewed as

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > However the previous problem(s -- multiple) was glibc using > non-Rawhide for integration testing, especially just while we were > trying to stablise Fedora for a release: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:13:44PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > The fact that a core library that's stability is critical to the > distribution as a whole doesn't bother to adhere to this and while > having gone through the hoops of putting in a feature change basically > then proceeded to comple

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:03:45AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > > > > The problem with that approach is that lots of bugs go unnoticed until > > very late in rawhide, resulting in those bugs being caught and fixed > > on

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > * Rawhide tracks glibc master. >> > * Fedora release is branched from Rawhide. >> > * glibc release is made upstream. >> > * Fedora branch is rebased on glibc upstream rele

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > The problem with that approach is that lots of bugs go unnoticed until > very late in rawhide, resulting in those bugs being caught and fixed > only post-release. ABI. That is, any ABI breakages that happen > are usually bugs.

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-30 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:36:34PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > The changes in the rebase should be minor since we've > > > been tracking master the whole time. > > I remember a similar process causing problems in Rawhide earlier and Jared > > Smith talking with the glibc team to ensure that

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > * Rawhide tracks glibc master. > > * Fedora release is branched from Rawhide. > > * glibc release is made upstream. > > * Fedora branch is rebased on glibc upstream release > > to include ABI guarantees. > > * Fedora release goes

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > I expect this to be the process forever going forward: > > * Rawhide tracks glibc master. > * Fedora release is branched from Rawhide. > * glibc release is made upstream. > * Fedora branch is rebased on glibc upstream release > to in

Re: The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:18:57AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > I expect this to be the process forever going forward: > > * Rawhide tracks glibc master. > * Fedora release is branched from Rawhide. > * glibc release is made upstream. > * Fedora branch is rebased on glibc upstream release > t

The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

2014-07-29 Thread Carlos O'Donell
Fedora, This is a reminder that the glibc team will be rebasing glibc in F21 to match glibc 2.20. The plan remains largely as was written here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GLIBC220 Only glibc 2.20 has ABI guarantees, and therefore we will move to 2.20 before F21 goes to GA to ensure th