Re: building old coreutils versions on new glibc systems

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:56 PM Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:35:01PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 8/2/19 9:05 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > Nice work. I've had to go through this process a few times over the
> > > years, and having these handy patch files checked in and maintained
> > > would make it easier to automate the process.
>
> > While this work is definitely worth keeping, I'm only 20:80 to add
> > something to the current (and future) version which belongs to older
> > versions.
> >
> > What about either uploading it to the FTP, or even better to add it
> > to the web pages' CVS?
>
> Adding it as a page to the website sounds good (it will also be easy
> for people to find using common search engines).
> I don't like the FTP idea so much - not very accesible unless you
> know exactly what you're looking for.
>
> Attached is a possible HTML page (and the patches in a subdirectory).

Since it is something that may contribute to binaries I build (with
the handy related build target), it feels like it belongs in
version-control. Otherwise, if downloading from some web site, we'd
have to verify the patches via gpg-signature or checksum before using
them to build new binaries.