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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-07 21:36:30 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-07 21:39:32 +0100
commit12ff7f3fc77ce6a7a3d7be9555e602be3c63704d (patch)
tree9d8505a0e07da8745e50e5916c45721b42bfc6d5 /gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
parent036ed3a8305ba0fb113666d52989cb4b009c5b72 (diff)
downloadguix-12ff7f3fc77ce6a7a3d7be9555e602be3c63704d.tar.gz
gnu: glibc: Add a comment in the patch.
* gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch: Add a comment.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
index ce18b874c4..c03807323f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+This patch allows libc to be used with the heavily-patched kernel found
+on CentOS 6, which identifies itself as 2.6.32.
+
+See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-02/msg00392.html>.
+
+Patch taken from Nixpkgs.
+
 diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure
 index cace758c01..38fe7fe0b0 100644
 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure