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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2017-11-25 19:17:28 +0100
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2017-11-28 14:24:09 +0100
commitee3ebf1a357bd4eb36a2fa1790a7b549cffb305a (patch)
tree9030e83f41cc62bd9f72fa8be049e65225ecce49
parent98a1c480b3f9dc1f1b35cd37ddf3977c5ac9b28c (diff)
downloadguix-ee3ebf1a357bd4eb36a2fa1790a7b549cffb305a.tar.gz
gnu: glibc: Update to 2.26-91-gaaa2eb83b8.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (glibc/linux): Update to 2.26-91-gaaa2eb83b8.
[source](uri): Download from alpha.gnu.org.
[source](patches): Remove glibc-CVE-2017-15670-15671.patch.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/base.scm17
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)