Moving to a more recent linux base, when?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com> (from Thu, 23  
Aug 2007 14:46:39 +0800):

> Hi,
>
> recently I had a look at the upcoming version of the PCB layout tool
> eagle, in beta test at the moment. I am currently maintaining both the
> international (cad/linux-eagle) and german ports of this tool.
> This new beta version however refuses to run as it depends on
> glibc-2.4 while our linux_base-fc4 ships glibc 2.3.6.
> Do we have a roadmap or an estimated timeframe as to when a more
> recent linux_base and their extra packages (linux-xorg and such)
> becomes standard for the ports tree?

If you find a glibc-2.4 for FC4 we can import it somehow. If you  
don't, we need to wait for the possibility to go to FC^ or newer. But  
as from FC5 on, we need 2.6.x emulation for the linuxulator. This will  
only be available in 7.x with x >= 1 (there's some support now, but it  
is not finished), and only if activated by the user. So by default we  
can not install FC6+ on 7.x (I doubt we will change the linuxulator  
default to 2.6.x in the 7.x-timeframe).

As we don't have good enough support for 2.6.x in 7-current, I didn't  
even thought about how to tackle the ports collection part. Remember,  
we have to support even 6.x for a while. Introducing the FC6+ ports is  
easy, but how to do it in a good way which works on all supported  
releases...

Bye,
Alexander.

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