Hello Little!

29 Jul 2018 02:34, Little Mikey wrote to Benny Pedersen:


 BP>> impressed you still not using gentoo 

 LM> Both the silvermont (this box) and the bonnell are still using the 
 LM> so-called bastardized Slackware-ish/LFS 'distribution' Maurice likes 
 LM> to call medevil.

it really is, precompiled systems is not what i like to see here

current at home is slackware for the time being

 LM> It has been deployed here for around 20 years now 
 LM> and looks to be a survivor.

why did ipv6 not work for last 20 years then ?, kernel 4.4.132 x64 here do not
want kernel based ipv6 autoconfig
 
 LM> It is still sysvinit based unlike most 
 LM> other Linux distributions these days which many hardcore Linux people, 
 LM> including Maurice, favour over the systemd based ones.

systemd is only optional, prefer openrc stable here over the alternatives

 LM> It works like 
 LM> a charm.  However the bonnell hasn't been brought up to date and it 
 LM> might wait until the release of glibc-2.28 or shortly thereafter.

2.28 is not in gentoo yet, it might still be possible it just works, but
problem compileing it and using it one cant downgrade from it, so if i have
2.28 need patches that dont break 2.28

 LM> At 
 LM> this moment there are fatal issues with m4,

freebsd uses makefile 

 LM> gzip and findutils with 
 LM> respect to the currently frozen glibc-2.27.9000

aha, still freezed on 2.26 here

 LM> which is the latest 
 LM> candidate for the soonish glibc-2.28 release.

+1

 LM> At the heart of the 
 LM> problem is gnulib which with a bit of tweaking can be fixed by 
 LM> deploying findutils-1.9a.685-d69f-dirty and gzip-1.9.4-9ef6-dirty, but 

not how things are done on gentoo here, precompiled problems solutions do not
be in gentoo

 LM> no such luck following the exact same strategy with 
 LM> m4-1.4.18.2-10237-dirty or even a more daring m4-1.9a.685-d69f-dirty.  
 LM> In all cases the same gnulib git source was deployed.

are this precompiled or just patches ? 

 BP>> --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/4.17.11-gentoo (x86_64))

 LM> -={ '<Esc>:read !uname -a' starts }=-
 LM> Linux mikey 4.17.11 #1 SMP Sat Jul 28 17:49:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 
 LM> Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
 LM> -={ '<Esc>:read !uname -a' ends }=-

my home slackware is running on atom x86_64 aswell


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works 

--- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/4.17.11-gentoo (x86_64))
 * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)