Vertex Linux Patches

This directory is a working collection of old and current patch sets used for Vertex Linux packaging.

It spans two broad eras of the distro:

• The older musl + mimalloc + LibreSSL era.
• The current glibc + x86_64-v3 era.

Some patches are clearly tied to one period, while others are carry patches that remained useful across both.

What This Tree Contains

The patches here are not a pristine historical archive of a single release. They are a maintained patch bucket for packages Vertex Linux has needed to adjust over time, including:

• libc and toolchain integration fixes
• clang and compiler-rt compatibility work
• x86_64-v3 policy and platform-specific changes
• LibreSSL compatibility patches from the older stack
• POSIX and /bin/sh cleanups for build scripts
• packaging, portability, and local distro behavior changes

Era Notes

Older Era: musl + mimalloc + LibreSSL + LLVM/Clang

This was the earlier Vertex Linux direction. Patches from that period generally reflect:

• musl-oriented portability work
• LibreSSL compatibility, especially for older Qt and network/crypto consumers
• runtime and allocator decisions that matched the mimalloc period
• build-system cleanup for a smaller, less GNU-specific base

Current Era: glibc + x86_64-v3 + LLVM/Clang

This is the current Vertex Linux direction. Patches from this period generally reflect:

• glibc-based userland assumptions
• x86_64-v3 baseline policy
• modern LLVM/Clang, lld, compiler-rt, and libc++ integration
• removing hardcoded GNU toolchain assumptions where they break modern Clang-based builds

Examples in this tree include the kernel-side x86_64-v3 enforcement patch in linux/0001-x86-setup-enforce-x86_64-v3.patch and newer glibc/valgrind compiler-runtime fixes such as glibc/glibc-2.43-use-compiler-reported-libgcc.patch and valgrind/valgrind-3.26.0-ungnuify.patch.

Reading The Layout

Directories are package-oriented. In general, each subdirectory holds local patches for one upstream project, for example:

• glibc patches
• qt5 patches
• util-linux
• valgrind

Practical Note

Not every patch maps cleanly to exactly one era. This tree should be read as "Vertex Linux patches that accumulated through the older musl/mimalloc/LibreSSL period and into the current glibc/x86_64-v3 period", not as a strict release-by-release archive.

PS:

And yes I used ai for these, not because I don't know how to write patches/code, but because I PROMISE I dont have the time to do all of this by hand. I have to maintain the distro, do the packaging, code a bunch of more stuff, and also write the documentation. The patches are just a small part of the work, and using ai helps me get them done faster so I can focus on the other important tasks.