[Mageia-dev] ANN / RFT: glibc-2.17

Sat Dec 29 19:24:08 CET 2012

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 06:10:06 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> I'm thinking of using glibc-2.17 in Mageia 3,
+> and I have been running it for 12+ hours here
+> doing initial tests and it seems to work ok...
+> 
+> So I'm asking for more tests from those brave enough :)
+> 
+> 
+> NOTE!
+> You must be prepared that you might have to downgrade
+> back to 2.16 either manually, or by doing a full
+> reinstall if we find much problems with the 2.17 tests.
+> 
+> 
+> Now with the warning out of the way, here  is the fun:
+> http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/testing/glibc-2.17/
+> http://tmb2.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/testing/glibc-2.17/
+> 
+> - urpmi will complain about missing signatures,
+>    but just ansver yes if you want to help testing...
+> 
+> 
+> If tests work out nicely, I'll push it to core/release
+> in some days...
+> 
+> 
+> Arnaud, can you check the arm part if you have time ?
+> 
+> the work is stored here for now:
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/glibc/branches/2.17/
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/locales/branches/2.17/
+> 
+> --
+> Thomas
+Seems to work here on a 64bit Virtualbox
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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