ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

On 2020-08-26 23:16, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi Helmut,
> 
> On 2020-08-26 17:43, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > Hi Vineet,
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:39:53PM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > > Following up as ARC glibc port was merged upstream in 2.32. Can we now give
> > > rebootstrap a spin for ARC Debian enablement.
> > 
> > That's great news. Unfortunately, it's not that easy yet. rebootstrap
> > requires the relevant software to be packaged for Debian and the glibc
> > packaging has only reached 2.31 yet. 2.32 is not even in experimental
> > yet.
> > 
> > Trying rebootstrap with an experimental glibc is not entirely trivial,
> > but possible.
> > 
> > Aurelien (Cced via d-glibc at l.d.o), are there plans to upload 2.32 to
> > experimental anytime soon?
> 
> No it's not planned soon. glibc 2.32 has removed support for nsl and
> rpc, so we first have to do the transition to their replacement. That is
> libnsl, libnss-nis and libnss-nisplus for nsl, and rpcsvc-proto and
> libtirpc3 for rpc. The nsl transition is in good state, but the packages
> are stuck in NEW. We've started to work on the rpc transition, however
> there is a lot more work, we have at least ~50 packages that FTBFS and
> need to be manually patched to use libtirpc3 instead of the glibc
> implementation.
> 
> We definitely need to use experimental to test those two transitions and
> ask for archive rebuilds, so it's not possible to upload a 2.32 package
> there.
> 

Now that the RPC transition is ongoing, I have just uploaded glibc 2.32
to experimental.

Regards,
Aurelien

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