[Nix-dev] Re: Please update of stdenv-linux tarballs

[Peter Simons]

Hi Eelco,

 >> What bothers me more than the update itself is the lack of advance
 >> communication regarding that update.
 >
 > Well, Lluis did make these changes on a branch which exists precisely so
 > that we can experiment with these things before we inflict them on the
 > trunk :-)

yes, that is true. Branches are useful for that purpose.


 >   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5227

Thanks! I think that's the bug report I was referring to.


 > I don't think we should try to support an old, obsolete, broken Red Hat
 > kernel.

Yes, neither do I. 2 years ago, a work-around for that bug would have been
nice to have, but these days it's pretty much irrelevant.

Take care,
Peter