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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index a6663c5cf6..c8fd8624af 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -515,14 +515,22 @@ store.") (define-public glibc/linux (package (name "glibc") - (version "2.26") + ;; Glibc has stable branches that continuously pick fixes for each supported + ;; release. Unfortunately they do not do point-releases, so we are stuck + ;; with copying almost all patches, or use a snapshot of the release branch. + ;; + ;; This version number corresponds to the output of `git describe` and the + ;; archive can be generated by checking out the commit ID and running: + ;; git archive --prefix=$(git describe)/ HEAD | xz -9 > $(git describe).tar.xz + ;; See <https://bugs.gnu.org/29406> for details. + (version "2.26-91-gaaa2eb83b8") (source (origin (method url-fetch) - (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/glibc/glibc-" - version ".tar.xz")) + (uri (string-append "https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror/" + "glibc-" version ".tar.xz")) (sha256 (base32 - "1ggnj1hzjym7sn93rbwydcqd562q73lsb7g7kd199g6j9j9hlkp5")) + "1zwz6d0x3ndd0hgqp17fx71miyjvn4dgkl1nzhaz3mbcqxzrprhk")) (snippet ;; Disable 'ldconfig' and /etc/ld.so.cache. The latter is ;; required on LFS distros to avoid loading the distro's libc.so @@ -533,7 +541,6 @@ store.") (modules '((guix build utils))) (patches (search-patches "glibc-ldd-x86_64.patch" "glibc-versioned-locpath.patch" - "glibc-CVE-2017-15670-15671.patch" "glibc-o-largefile.patch")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) |