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Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?

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Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.  Somehow I feel more comfortable building 
> glibc from an "official" versioned tar.gz, though maybe that is 
> just superstition on my part.

Tarballs are a completely outdated concept.  I've said multiple times
that I won't waste my time on them.  Tarballs are static.  If I would
have made a 2.8 tarballs then I shortly afterwards would have had to
made 2.8.1 and perhaps more.  There are always going to be changes.
That's what appropriately-tagged branches in CVS are for.  You take the
latest version of the release branch and you know you have the version
which you are intended to use.

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