Re: Better communication about spectre/meltdown
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 02:11:28AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-04-14 at 01:57 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> [...]
> > I've pushed my version to:
> > https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-security/
> >
> > I believe this builds the right set of binary packages, and the files
> > contained in them match the binaries built from 4.9.2-10+deb8u1 with a
> > few exceptions that seem to make sense.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether the packages all work. There are some new test
> > failures (I'm comparing with the build log for 4.9.2-10+b1). Some of
> > these may be due to bugs in library packages built from gcc-4.7. I
> > don't know how much effort we should put into investigating these.
> [...]
>
> Wonderful, they're not even installable:
>
> dpkg: regarding .../gcc-4.9-base_4.9.2-10+deb7u1_amd64.deb containing
> gcc-4.9-base:amd64:
> gcc-4.9-base breaks gcc-4.7-base (<< 4.7.3)
> gcc-4.7-base:amd64 (version 4.7.2-5) is present and installed.
>
> I'll try again.
>
> Ben.
>
Hi Ben,
I feel like I am standing idly by and you are doing all the work. I
admit that this involves some arcane things that I do not fully grok at
the moment. However, if there is anything at all that I can do to help,
please let me know.
Regards,
-Roberto
--
Roberto C. Sánchez
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