Subj : i'm a doughnut To : Little Mikey From : Benny Pedersen Date : Sun Jul 29 2018 12:01:54 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> -={ ':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> -={ ':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) .