Arch Linux Finally Rolling Out Glibc 2.27

[schmidtbag]

I expected to read what took them so long Debian Sid rolled it 40 days ago.

Unlike Debian Sid, Arch is actually pretty reliable. I have never had a Sid install that survived more than 2 years without major breakages, meanwhile I've had Arch setups that survived 4+ years just fine.

I'm not necessarily faulting sid here, but the point of that repo is to offer the latest release regardless of whether it actually works or should be used. Arch's devs have sometimes done same-day updates for new releases, sometimes they hold things back for over a month. For being a cutting-edge rolling release distro, they're pretty damn good at making things stable, or at least they make it relatively easy to recover from problems. Sometimes I tried a few packages in Arch's testing repo (which is basically the same idea as Debian Sid), where I was waiting for a package to be released that other distros already have. More often than not, I've regretted using the testing repo. If I were using Sid in these situations, I'd have a much harder time reverting the changes.

[dungeon]

Even though Arch has bad rep in some circles (underservedly so, imho), it aims (and succeeds at that most of the time) to be a solid, reliable, working system. It's not an unstable version for testing what may become a release in the future.

Remember who Sid is named after.

Arch tends to test things to at least make sure theybat least can give the users orientation on migration procedures. Not like what unstable does.

Prerelase of glibc 2.27 was in Debian experimental repo for about 2 months before it entered Sid, what do you think that does there? Do you maybe still think how that is pushed without any thinking?

And if you want to know, new glibc would be pushed in Sid even around release date, but Ubuntu was in freeze, so as soon as that was unfrozen it immedeatlly entered as was really ready 3 months ago even I know that, as i was testing it for about that speed at that time about 3 months ago

[andrebrait]

I expected to read what took them so long Debian Sid rolled it 40 days ago.

Even though Arch has bad rep in some circles (underservedly so, imho), it aims (and succeeds at that most of the time) to be a solid, reliable, working system. It's not an unstable version for testing what may become a release in the future.

Remember who Sid is named after.

Arch tends to test things to at least make sure theybat least can give the users orientation on migration procedures. Not like what unstable does.

[dungeon]

The gentleman in this video says he LITERALLY can't use Linux on SPARC. Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HO_MXPjnqg

Tell him that most people behave like sheeps and "choose" to use some things because they see so many others use it, so once it is Bean cool

[unixfan2001]

erhh, yeah, well, ben there, done that (https://t2sde.org/packages/glibc), however, all latest glibc since quite some yesteryear segfault on early program init / startup on sparc{,64}, need to debug that sometime soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsKct4T2xk

I'm confused.

Are you a space faring alien?

The gentleman in this video says he LITERALLY can't use Linux on SPARC. Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HO_MXPjnqg

[dungeon]

erhh, yeah, well, ben there, done that...

Bean there, done that

[Aleksei]

Finally, Arch benchmarks.

[rene]

erhh, yeah, well, ben there, done that (https://t2sde.org/packages/glibc), however, all latest glibc since quite some yesteryear segfault on early program init / startup on sparc{,64}, need to debug that sometime soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsKct4T2xk

[AsuMagic]

Unless I missed something in the article: It's only in the testing repos for now FYI.

[dungeon]

I expected to read what took them so long Debian Sid rolled it 40 days ago.