[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Don't use dietlibc

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 13:52:21 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 15:25 +1000, Alan Milligan wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > We don't ship dietlibc anymore (and never have for a lot of arches).
> 
> Oh.
> 
> I thought this was needed for all the busybox rescue/recovery
> applications on the installer.  What's happening with this?

It was only ever done on i386 and the main reason was so that things
would fit on a floppy.  Since we can't do that anymore even with diet,
we dropped it (maintaining a second libc and keeping things working
against two was a PITA).

Jeremy




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