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Re: glibc tarballs available
2008-11-20 13:57 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> napisaÅ(a):
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Section: "Obtaining the source"
>>> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/HomePage
>>
>> i dont think we should do this haphazardly ... in other words, someone who is
>> "trusted" (like you Carlos) needs to download the source tarballs and verify
>> that they match exactly what is in cvs (or one of the snapshots). then you
>> can sign the binary and send that to Brett to mirror along side the tarballs.
>
> I've updated the wiki to reflect which sources are official and which
> are unofficial and provided for convenience. Thanks.
>
> The process you describe sounds great. Would you like to volunteer to
> do the verification and signing?
>
>> that said, i dont see why people insist on creating snaps themselves. we
>> already have perfectly good snaps (that were created with accepted methods)
>> being generated and posted weekly. that is what Gentoo is using for glibc-2.8
>> -- one of the snaps created automatically.
>
> Where are these snapshots located? I am not aware of them.
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots/