On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:34:40PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Matt ... we are using gcc-3.4.6-3 now ... as it is being released in > CentOS-4.4 ... however at the time of the kernel release in question > (more than a month BEFORE the RHEL 4u4 release), there was no idea what > what binutils, glibc or gcc was going to be released. The new kernels > are being built with the 4.4 toolchain, as is our standard practice. So, the RHSA-2006:0617-15-based kernel from yesterday is built with the new gcc, and the whole conversation is pretty frickin' moot. > We will only build with released tool chains .. and whenever possible, > we will build against the same tool chain as upstream. Some times that > is not possible. In the cases where it is not possible, we will build > against the stable CentOS tree. > > We won't build against items in a beta status. This is clearly a good general policy, but I do think it might be reasonable to consider exceptions in some particular cases where the problem fixed is severe *and* where changes from a known-stable version are clearly minor. That may or may not fit this case, and given the above, I don't want to waste any more of your time discussiong whether it does. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>