Re: Upcoming Yocto 1.2.1 "denzil" release this week.

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 19:00 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2012 17:55:18 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Richard Purdie
> > <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:57 +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> > >> Are Khems eglibc patches going to make it in for this - 2.16 is playing
> > >> havoc with my builds at the moment and surely will with everyone else
> > >> when the major distros catch up.
> > > 
> > > Its too late to get those pieces into 1.2.1, they're not even in master
> > > yet, let alone in a stable release branch.
> > > 
> > > I'm proposing we get 1.2.1 out, get the 2.16 pieces tested in master,
> > > then port them to the denzil branch quickly post release so they'd make
> > > any 1.2.2 release and are available on the git branch for people using
> > > the stable branch.
> > 
> > Can you fill me in? Why would a point release include such a dramatic
> > upgrade?
> 
> I think what we would be looking at would be just adding the fixes to allow the 
> native packages to build against eglibc 2.16 so it can work on host distros 
> that use it, not bringing eglibc 2.16 itself in for the target.

Right, this would just be to allow edison to work on systems that have a
native eglibc 2.16. I'm not convinced we have the patches worked out yet
though. Target eglibc would remain with whatever is in edison (2.13?).

Cheers,

Richard