[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] eglibc 2.14 upgrade

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 16:22 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:31 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> > On 6/22/11 1:35 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> >> >> Since applying this update, I'm not longer getting an rpc/rpc.h file, which
> >> >> breaks various things like busybox mount.
> >> >>
> >> >> Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
> >> >
> >> > Reverting:
> >> >
> >> > 2a68cf4d315cdd18766de0c75928ff17846a6cd7 and
> >> > 190a946e9a4213944e3ee675c4b3e18701698e87
> >> >
> >> > fixed the problem for me.  So there is definitely a problems in the upgrade.
> >> >
> >>
> >> onward looking rpc is now maintained with libtirpc starting glibc 2.14 rpc is
> >> not to be used from bundled code in glibc. If we dont have recipes for libtirpc
> >> then I will add that.
> >
> > There looks to be more than this wrong with this update. A quick
> > comparison shows the following changes in the list of files being
> > installed from do_install:
> >
> > -./lib/libmemusage.so
> > -./lib/libnss_hesiod-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libnss_nisplus-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libutil-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libresolv-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libm-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libnsl-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libnss_compat-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libnss_nis-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libnss_dns-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libanl-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libBrokenLocale-2.13.so
> > -./lib/libcrypt-2.13.so
> > -./etc/rpc
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_compat_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_dns_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_nisplus_pic.a
> > +./usr/lib/audit/sotruss-lib.so
> > -./usr/lib/libutil_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libBrokenLocale_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.a
> > -./usr/lib/libBrokenLocale_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libm.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_dns_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libm_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_hesiod_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/librpcsvc.a
> > -./usr/lib/libutil.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_compat_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libcrypt.a
> > -./usr/lib/libutil_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libanl.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnsl_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libresolv.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_hesiod_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libm_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnsl_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_nis_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libanl_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libcrypt_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libcrypt_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_nis_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libresolv_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libresolv_pic.a
> > -./usr/lib/libanl_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libnss_nisplus_pic.map
> > -./usr/lib/libnsl.a
> > -./usr/bin/rpcgen
> > -./usr/bin/gencat
> > +./usr/bin/sotruss
> > -./usr/bin/localedef
> > -./usr/bin/locale
> > -./usr/sbin/rpcinfo
> > -./usr/sbin/nscd
> >
> > Some of these are rpc related but there are other issues too.
> >
> > I've reverted the upgrade itself for now until we have something in
> > place to address the issues and its actually had some testing...
> >
> 
> some of these are due to rpc and others are due to nss being removed
> I need to backport the nss db re-implementation then most of it should
> be resolved
> I guess I will post 2.14 as additional recipes rather than replacement for 2.13
> that way we will get some soak time.

FWIW, some of the above list was due to local build corruption as I had
some weirdness going on with DISTRO_FEATURES locally. That variable now
influences the libc quite a lot and might also be catching others out
which is why I mention it.

Cheers,

Richard