Subj : Reading files with MS Ext
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jul 29 2018 12:30:27

Hallo Benny!

 BP> precompiled systems is not what i like to see here

Huh?  None of what is running here is precompiled.  It is all built from source 
on the target machine.

 BP> why did ipv6 not work for last 20 years then ?

That I don't know.  I have yet to use or need ipv6 so I never knew it wasn't 
working.

 BP> systemd is only optional

That is a good thing.  Everytime I've checked systemd it never works as good as 
sysvinit on a purely console based system.  I can easily live without it.

 BP> still freezed on 2.26 here

I've managed to get 2.27 working since the start of 2018.  Given the issues 
with 2.28 it looks like I'll be frozen on 2.27 for awhile.

 BP> are this precompiled or just patches ?

git source.  It just needs to be bootstrapped with the latest gnulib and then 
compiled from there.  I just discovered that I can get away with the latest 
stable m4 source bootstrapped to the latest gnulib but not so with either 
findutils and gzip.  I haven't gotten far enough along to know what else might 
be broken using glibc-2.27.9000.  So far I have only compiled;

acl-2.2.53
attr-2.4.48
autoconf-2.69
automake-1.16.1
bash-4.4.23
bc-1.07.1
bin86-0.16.19
binutils-2.31
bison-3.0.5
bzip2-1.0.6
check-0.12.0
coreutils-8.30
diffutils-3.6
e2fsprogs-1.44.3
elfutils-0.173
eudev-3.2.5
expat-2.2.5
file-5.34
findutils-4.6.0.186-84e8
flex-2.6.4
gawk-4.2.1
gcc-8.2.0
gdbm-1.16
gettext-0.19.8.1
glibc-2.27.9000
gmp-6.1.2
gperf-3.1
grep-3.1
gzip-1.9.4-9ef6-dirty
iana_etc-2.30
inetutils-1.9.4
intltool-0.51.0
iproute2-4.17.0
kbd-2.0.4
kernel-4.17.11
kernel_headers-4.17.11
kmod-25
less-530
libcap-2.25
libffi-3.2.1
libmnl-1.0.4
libnftnl-1.0.8
libnl-3.4.0
libtool-2.4.6
lilo-24.2
m4-1.4.18
make-4.2.1
mpc-1.1.0
mpfr-4.0.1
ncurses-6.1
nftables-0.8
openssl-1.1.0h
patch-2.7.6
pcre-8.42
perl-5.28.0
pkg-config-lite-0.28-1
procps-ng-3.3.15
psmisc-23.1
python-2.7.15
readline-7.0.5
sed-4.5
shadow-4.6
sysklogd-1.5.1
sysvinit-2.90
tar-1.30
texinfo-6.5
tzdata2018e
util-linux-2.32.1
vim-8.1
xml-parser-2.44
xz-5.2.4
zlib-1.2.11

I count 72 packages in the above list.  My default rootfs, which is glibc-2.27 
based, currently has 167 packages so I have a ways to go yet to catch up.  I am 
in no rush and might decide to abandon the above for now.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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