Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: September 20, 2004
1. Gentoo News
First Official Gentoo User Survey
The Gentoo User Survey has been released. This survey is meant to get
some feedback from Gentoo Linux users and give us a feel on how Gentoo
is being used and what we can do to improve. The survey should take
around ten minutes to complete and will be available through the rest
of September. Upon registering for the survey at our new [1]Survey
site an activation code will be sent to your email address.
Forum Platform Embellishments
As reported three weeks ago, the forums [2]have been moved to new
hardware lately. However, many users were still experiencing
[3]sluggish behaviour. Now the Forum administrators have looked a
little closer into this and started to analyse the problem. They
decided not to prune forums because they don't wanted to lose any
information that could be of any help to the users. Analysis of the
database showed that some tables had become very choppy and filled
with search terms hardly anyone would ever use for a search, or the
terms, if used at all, wouldn't produce usable results. [4]Robert Coie
created a list containing the top 256 words used in posts and broke it
down to only a handful of useful search terms. On Wednesday last week,
15 September, he [5]dropped all useless words from the wordmatch
tables and registered them in the stopword list so that in future
these words will stay ignored. Rac thus reduced search index volume by
about 20 percent, and the forums became much snappier immediately.
Benefitting from the few hours that the Forums were read-only on that
same day, fellow admin [6]Christian Hartmann applied some patches to
the phpBB sources that reduce the hits on the database server by
caching and prestoring those tables almost every page relies on. The
patches make the Forum software query the database server about 50,000
times less per hour. The search for more opportunities to tweak
performance is still on, with the aim of pushing the Forum's
responsiveness even beyond the level of three years ago when there was
only a handful of users.
2. Gentoo Security
Samba: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in
Samba.
For more information, please see the [7]GLSA Announcement
SUS: Local root vulnerability
SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege
escalation.
For more information, please see the [8]GLSA Announcement
cdrtools: Local root vulnerability in cdrecord if set SUID root
cdrecord, if manually set SUID root, is vulnerable to a local root
exploit allowing users to escalate privileges.
For more information, please see the [9]GLSA Announcement
Heimdal: ftpd root escalation
Several bugs exist in the Heimdal ftp daemon which could allow a
remote attacker to gain root privileges.
For more information, please see the [10]GLSA Announcement
mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerability
mpg123 decoding routines contain a buffer overflow bug that might lead
to arbitrary code execution.
For more information, please see the [11]GLSA Announcement
Apache 2, mod_dav: Multiple vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Apache 2 and mod_dav for
Apache 1.3 which could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of
Service or a local user to get escalated privileges.
For more information, please see the [12]GLSA Announcement
phpGroupWare: XSS vulnerability in wiki module
The phpGroupWare software contains a cross site scripting
vulnerability in the wiki module.
For more information, please see the [13]GLSA Announcement
SnipSnap: HTTP response splitting
SnipSnap is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks such as web
cache poisoning, cross-user defacement, and cross-site scripting.
For more information, please see the [14]GLSA Announcement
3. Featured Developer of the Week
NN - Your Name Here?
No featured developer this week. If you're a Gentoo developer and you
would like to see your portrait here, please contact [15]the GWN team.
4. Heard in the Community
gentoo-user
Comparing Gentoo with Debian
Just about everyone in the Linux community has heard of Debian Linux.
It has been a cornerstone in the Linux distribution world. This week,
a rather diverse thread developed from the question of what advantages
Gentoo has over Debian. In the end it really all comes down to
personal choice; and whatever distribution is right for the job.
* [16]vs. Debian
gentoo-dev
GCC 3.4 goes ~x86
After much discussion, GCC 3.4.0 is considered stable enough to be
used in ~x86. A few apps like OpenOffice and Sun Java2 SDK still break
since GCC 3.4 has stricter syntax checking. It still has some SSE2
bugs, too, most noticeable in xorg / xfree, and some 64bit bugs,
resulting in some package up/down/cross-grading.
* [17]GCC 3.4 goes ~x86
Portage 2.0.51 becoming stable
The .51 series of portage has reached _pre23 and is now considered
almost stable enough for most uses. Among the many changes are
performance enhancements (faster dependency calculation), some cool
new features (rebuilding of packages when USE flags have changed, GPG
signature verification) and FHS compliance have been introduced.
* [18]Portage 2.0.51 becoming stable
experimental ConfCache patch
Stuart Herbert writes: "GNU autoconf is a bottleneck for compiling
packages - especially on multi-processor boxes. It supports the idea
of a cache, but provides no tools for maintaining the cache at all.
I've put together an experimental patch for Portage 2.0.50-r10, which
maintains a cache for configure to reuse."
* [19]experimental ConfCache patch
Portage prelink patch?
Every now and then requests for direct portage support for prelink are
heard. As it seems, this functionality is mostly included, but still
not completely supported. The best course of action now seems to be
running prelink manually after large updates.
* [20]Portage prelink patch?
5. Gentoo International
Germany: International Gentoo PPC Developer Meeting 30 September
[21]Kransberg Castle is going to be the venue for an impromptu
GentooPPC developer meeting scheduled for the 30th of this month.
Hosted by GWN editor Ulrich Plate, at least five Gentoo PPC developers
including Damien Krotkine (France), David Holm (Sweden), Luca Barbato
(Italy), Lars Weiler (Germany) and Bryon Roche (USA) will have dinner,
drinks and talks all evening, starting around 19:00. Benjamin Judas of
Gentoo Release Enginering will make a special appearance, too. The
event marks the closing day of the [22]Freescale Smart Networks
Developer Conference in near-by Frankfurt, and it's open for people
with an interest in Gentoo PPC, active developers and users alike. If
you happen to be in the area and would like to attend the meeting,
register with [23]Ulrich Plate, especially if you need accomodation.
6. Bugzilla
Summary
* [24]Statistics
* [25]Closed Bug Ranking
* [26]New Bug Rankings
Statistics
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla ([27]bugs.gentoo.org) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 12 September 2004 and 18 September
2004,activity on the site has resulted in:
* 729 new bugs during this period
* 289 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 25 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7369 currently open bugs: 140 are labeled 'blocker', 216 are
labeled 'critical', and 589 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this
period are:
* [28]Gentoo Games, with 19 [29]closed bugs
* [30]Jeremy Huddleston, with 18 [31]closed bugs
* [32]Gentoo KDE team, with 17 [33]closed bugs
* [34]Java team, with 16 [35]closed bugs
* [36]Gentoo Security, with 13 [37]closed bugs
* [38]AMD64 Porting Team, with 10 [39]closed bugs
* [40]GCC Porting Team, with 8 [41]closed bugs
* [42]Alpha Porters, with 8 [43]closed bugs
New Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs
during this period are:
* [44]Net-Mail Packages, with 25 [45]new bugs
* [46]Gentoo X-windows packagers, with 20 [47]new bugs
* [48]Gentoo's Team for Core System packages, with 17 [49]new bugs
* [50]Gentoo KDE team, with 15 [51]new bugs
* [52]Portage team, with 15 [53]new bugs
* [54]Mozilla Gentoo Team, with 14 [55]new bugs
* [56]Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 14 [57]new bugs
* [58]AMD64 Porting Team, with 12 [59]new bugs
7. Tips and Tricks
Using Unison to Synchronize Two Directories
A very common question often asked in the Forums and on IRC is how to
synchronize directories and files on a host or between different
hosts. [60]Unison is a robust user-level file-synchronization tool
that works cross-platform available under the GNU Public License.
Unison offers a textural interface an an interface based on Gtk. If
you want to use the Gtk interface make sure to compile unison with gtk
useflag enabled.
Code listing 7.1: Install unison
# emerge unison
To get in touch with the usage of unison we’ll create two
directories, create some files and sync them with the help of unison.
Code listing 7.2: Creating some test files and directories
# mkdir testdir1
# touch testdir1/foo testdir1/bar
# mkdir testdir1/null
# touch testdir1/null/foobar
# mkdir testdir2
Now we want to synchronize testdir1 and testdir2 so that these
directorys will contain the same files after unison finishes.
Code listing 7.3: Running unison for the first time
// We will use the textclient in this example:
# unison -ui text testdir1 testdir2
[...]
testdir1 testdir2
file ----> bar [f]
file ----> foo [f]
dir ----> null [f]
[...]
#
The output of unison tells us that it successfully copied 2 files (bar
and foo) and 1 directory from testdir1 to testdir2.
For tutorials and more information about the usage of unison check the
[61]Unison - User Manual and Reference.
8. Moves, Adds, and Changes
Moves
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* None this week
Changes
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo
Linux project:
* None this week
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1. Gentoo News
First Official Gentoo User Survey
The Gentoo User Survey has been released. This survey is meant to get
some feedback from Gentoo Linux users and give us a feel on how Gentoo
is being used and what we can do to improve. The survey should take
around ten minutes to complete and will be available through the rest
of September. Upon registering for the survey at our new [1]Survey
site an activation code will be sent to your email address.
Forum Platform Embellishments
As reported three weeks ago, the forums [2]have been moved to new
hardware lately. However, many users were still experiencing
[3]sluggish behaviour. Now the Forum administrators have looked a
little closer into this and started to analyse the problem. They
decided not to prune forums because they don't wanted to lose any
information that could be of any help to the users. Analysis of the
database showed that some tables had become very choppy and filled
with search terms hardly anyone would ever use for a search, or the
terms, if used at all, wouldn't produce usable results. [4]Robert Coie
created a list containing the top 256 words used in posts and broke it
down to only a handful of useful search terms. On Wednesday last week,
15 September, he [5]dropped all useless words from the wordmatch
tables and registered them in the stopword list so that in future
these words will stay ignored. Rac thus reduced search index volume by
about 20 percent, and the forums became much snappier immediately.
Benefitting from the few hours that the Forums were read-only on that
same day, fellow admin [6]Christian Hartmann applied some patches to
the phpBB sources that reduce the hits on the database server by
caching and prestoring those tables almost every page relies on. The
patches make the Forum software query the database server about 50,000
times less per hour. The search for more opportunities to tweak
performance is still on, with the aim of pushing the Forum's
responsiveness even beyond the level of three years ago when there was
only a handful of users.
2. Gentoo Security
Samba: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in
Samba.
For more information, please see the [7]GLSA Announcement
SUS: Local root vulnerability
SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege
escalation.
For more information, please see the [8]GLSA Announcement
cdrtools: Local root vulnerability in cdrecord if set SUID root
cdrecord, if manually set SUID root, is vulnerable to a local root
exploit allowing users to escalate privileges.
For more information, please see the [9]GLSA Announcement
Heimdal: ftpd root escalation
Several bugs exist in the Heimdal ftp daemon which could allow a
remote attacker to gain root privileges.
For more information, please see the [10]GLSA Announcement
mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerability
mpg123 decoding routines contain a buffer overflow bug that might lead
to arbitrary code execution.
For more information, please see the [11]GLSA Announcement
Apache 2, mod_dav: Multiple vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Apache 2 and mod_dav for
Apache 1.3 which could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of
Service or a local user to get escalated privileges.
For more information, please see the [12]GLSA Announcement
phpGroupWare: XSS vulnerability in wiki module
The phpGroupWare software contains a cross site scripting
vulnerability in the wiki module.
For more information, please see the [13]GLSA Announcement
SnipSnap: HTTP response splitting
SnipSnap is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks such as web
cache poisoning, cross-user defacement, and cross-site scripting.
For more information, please see the [14]GLSA Announcement
3. Featured Developer of the Week
NN - Your Name Here?
No featured developer this week. If you're a Gentoo developer and you
would like to see your portrait here, please contact [15]the GWN team.
4. Heard in the Community
gentoo-user
Comparing Gentoo with Debian
Just about everyone in the Linux community has heard of Debian Linux.
It has been a cornerstone in the Linux distribution world. This week,
a rather diverse thread developed from the question of what advantages
Gentoo has over Debian. In the end it really all comes down to
personal choice; and whatever distribution is right for the job.
* [16]vs. Debian
gentoo-dev
GCC 3.4 goes ~x86
After much discussion, GCC 3.4.0 is considered stable enough to be
used in ~x86. A few apps like OpenOffice and Sun Java2 SDK still break
since GCC 3.4 has stricter syntax checking. It still has some SSE2
bugs, too, most noticeable in xorg / xfree, and some 64bit bugs,
resulting in some package up/down/cross-grading.
* [17]GCC 3.4 goes ~x86
Portage 2.0.51 becoming stable
The .51 series of portage has reached _pre23 and is now considered
almost stable enough for most uses. Among the many changes are
performance enhancements (faster dependency calculation), some cool
new features (rebuilding of packages when USE flags have changed, GPG
signature verification) and FHS compliance have been introduced.
* [18]Portage 2.0.51 becoming stable
experimental ConfCache patch
Stuart Herbert writes: "GNU autoconf is a bottleneck for compiling
packages - especially on multi-processor boxes. It supports the idea
of a cache, but provides no tools for maintaining the cache at all.
I've put together an experimental patch for Portage 2.0.50-r10, which
maintains a cache for configure to reuse."
* [19]experimental ConfCache patch
Portage prelink patch?
Every now and then requests for direct portage support for prelink are
heard. As it seems, this functionality is mostly included, but still
not completely supported. The best course of action now seems to be
running prelink manually after large updates.
* [20]Portage prelink patch?
5. Gentoo International
Germany: International Gentoo PPC Developer Meeting 30 September
[21]Kransberg Castle is going to be the venue for an impromptu
GentooPPC developer meeting scheduled for the 30th of this month.
Hosted by GWN editor Ulrich Plate, at least five Gentoo PPC developers
including Damien Krotkine (France), David Holm (Sweden), Luca Barbato
(Italy), Lars Weiler (Germany) and Bryon Roche (USA) will have dinner,
drinks and talks all evening, starting around 19:00. Benjamin Judas of
Gentoo Release Enginering will make a special appearance, too. The
event marks the closing day of the [22]Freescale Smart Networks
Developer Conference in near-by Frankfurt, and it's open for people
with an interest in Gentoo PPC, active developers and users alike. If
you happen to be in the area and would like to attend the meeting,
register with [23]Ulrich Plate, especially if you need accomodation.
6. Bugzilla
Summary
* [24]Statistics
* [25]Closed Bug Ranking
* [26]New Bug Rankings
Statistics
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla ([27]bugs.gentoo.org) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 12 September 2004 and 18 September
2004,activity on the site has resulted in:
* 729 new bugs during this period
* 289 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 25 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7369 currently open bugs: 140 are labeled 'blocker', 216 are
labeled 'critical', and 589 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this
period are:
* [28]Gentoo Games, with 19 [29]closed bugs
* [30]Jeremy Huddleston, with 18 [31]closed bugs
* [32]Gentoo KDE team, with 17 [33]closed bugs
* [34]Java team, with 16 [35]closed bugs
* [36]Gentoo Security, with 13 [37]closed bugs
* [38]AMD64 Porting Team, with 10 [39]closed bugs
* [40]GCC Porting Team, with 8 [41]closed bugs
* [42]Alpha Porters, with 8 [43]closed bugs
New Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs
during this period are:
* [44]Net-Mail Packages, with 25 [45]new bugs
* [46]Gentoo X-windows packagers, with 20 [47]new bugs
* [48]Gentoo's Team for Core System packages, with 17 [49]new bugs
* [50]Gentoo KDE team, with 15 [51]new bugs
* [52]Portage team, with 15 [53]new bugs
* [54]Mozilla Gentoo Team, with 14 [55]new bugs
* [56]Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 14 [57]new bugs
* [58]AMD64 Porting Team, with 12 [59]new bugs
7. Tips and Tricks
Using Unison to Synchronize Two Directories
A very common question often asked in the Forums and on IRC is how to
synchronize directories and files on a host or between different
hosts. [60]Unison is a robust user-level file-synchronization tool
that works cross-platform available under the GNU Public License.
Unison offers a textural interface an an interface based on Gtk. If
you want to use the Gtk interface make sure to compile unison with gtk
useflag enabled.
Code listing 7.1: Install unison
# emerge unison
To get in touch with the usage of unison we’ll create two
directories, create some files and sync them with the help of unison.
Code listing 7.2: Creating some test files and directories
# mkdir testdir1
# touch testdir1/foo testdir1/bar
# mkdir testdir1/null
# touch testdir1/null/foobar
# mkdir testdir2
Now we want to synchronize testdir1 and testdir2 so that these
directorys will contain the same files after unison finishes.
Code listing 7.3: Running unison for the first time
// We will use the textclient in this example:
# unison -ui text testdir1 testdir2
[...]
testdir1 testdir2
file ----> bar [f]
file ----> foo [f]
dir ----> null [f]
[...]
#
The output of unison tells us that it successfully copied 2 files (bar
and foo) and 1 directory from testdir1 to testdir2.
For tutorials and more information about the usage of unison check the
[61]Unison - User Manual and Reference.
8. Moves, Adds, and Changes
Moves
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* None this week
Changes
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo
Linux project:
* None this week
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