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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 22 May 2006.
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1. Gentoo news
==============
GCC 4.1 on its way into Portage
-------------------------------
The long awaited moment of GCC 4.1 being unmasked has almost arrived. The
toolchain team will be unmasking gcc-4.1.1 this week after it is released.
The upgrade should be incredibly easy and require no additional work to
install and use. The number of applications that do not compile with
gcc-4.1 is extremely small now, and most users should not experience any
problems with ~arch packages not compiling. To upgrade to the new version
(assuming you are using gcc-3.4), all that is required is to upgrade GCC
and then select the new profile using gcc-config. If you are upgrading
from an earlier version of GCC, please refer to our GCC Upgrading Guide[1]
for more detailed instructions.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
If you run into any applications that do not compile, and they do not have
a bug currently open, please file a "GCC Porting" bug and assign it to
gcc-porting@gentoo.org so that the GCC Porting team can look into it.
Gentoo Summer of Code
---------------------
There were over 6400 applications from students, almost 90 mentoring
organizations - in almost every respect the Summer of Code program from
Google has grown a lot since last year. This year Gentoo will be one of
the mentoring organizations, with the UserRel project acting as organizer.
While the final numbers will be released on Monday the 22nd we can already
say that Gentoo got 130 applications. Out of these around 13 will be
sponsored by Google. We are very happy to see such a great interest in
Gentoo and hope that all sponsored projects will be successful!
Old-style PHP packages removed from Portage
-------------------------------------------
After being package.masked for quite some time, the old-style PHP packages
(dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi, dev-php/mod_php, and friends) have been
removed from the Portage tree. The new-style PHP packages (dev-lang/php,
dev-php4/*, dev-php5/*, and friends) are now stable on most architectures.
=========================
2. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-dev
----------
et_EE locale and language of error messages
The Gentoo bugwranglers often have to wrangle bugs that have error
messages in other languages. This makes it difficult to understand and to
find duplicates. A workaround for this issue would be to set the default
language used by portage to "C", which is (through historic precedents)
English and the default when nothing else is set. A different class of
bugs comes from the estonian locale, et_EE: As their alphabet ordering is
different some "silly" buildsystems stumble as [a-z] no longer matches all
letters. While these bugs can be really annoying they should be fixed.
Setting the locale to another language would prevent these bugs, but it is
recommended to fix it so that future problems are avoided.
* et_EE locale and language of error messages [2]
2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38378
New eclasses
As there are many different Revision Control Systems and it is often
useful to have ebuild support to check out files directly from a
repository this week gives us a few eclasses that help with managing
darcs, git and mercurial. Those three are relatively new RCS that are
already used by many projects instead of CVS or subversion.
* New eclasses [3]
3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38364
Signing everything, for fun and for profit
The first recorded discussions about signing all Gentoo-provided files to
avoid tampering go back to 2003. Since then there have been a few tries to
get a Gentoo-wide system to cryptographically sign all files, but there
was never a consensus, and in the end it never got fully implemented.
Patrick Lauer[4] revives the discussion in the hope of getting it finally
done.
4. patrick@gentoo.org
* Signing everything, for fun and for profit [5]
5. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38363
RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base
A new Gentoo project gets kickstarted by Sven Vermeulen[6]. The goal is to
create a knowledge base that "[...] provides answers to specific questions
and problems that users (or developers) might encounter. It is easily
searchable and maintained by developers who are knowledgeable in the
topic. The knowledge base entries ("topics" as I like to call them) are
not documentation guides, but very specific to a particular environment
and question."
6. swift@gentoo.org
* RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base [7]
7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38030
Paludis profiles yay or nay?
What started as a simple question by Stephen Bennett[8] whether there were
any objections to adding profiles for the Paludis package manager into the
mainline Gentoo tree became one of the fastest and most heated email
exchanges to happen on the gentoo-dev mailinglist. With around 300
messages in the main thread and three forked subthreads this is an
impressive debate:
8. spb@gentoo.org
* Paludis and Profiles [9]
* Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the
council) [10]
* RFC: etiquette enforcement [11]
* 259 paludis-profile messages. ENOUGH! [12]
9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38016
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38231
11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38342
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38351
Planet Gentoo
-------------
Baselayout 1.12 going stable?
Asked by many users Roy Marples now announced that there is only one
unionfs bug left before he starts building baselayout's 1.12.0 tarball. If
there don't occur any show-stopping bugs it will take another month before
baselayout-1.12.0 can be marked stable by our ARCH-teams.
* Baselayout 1.12 going stable?
Apache 2.0.58 now available
Later than expected Apache 2.0.58 finally made it into the tree, including
some changes how Apache works within Gentoo. Most notable is the
deprecation of net-www/gentoo-webroot-default as discussed in Bug #90748.
As of 2.0.58 the /var/www/localhost directory will be leaved untouched if
it exists. If it doesn’t exist, it will be created and populated.
* Apache 2.0.58 now available
=======================
3. Gentoo international
=======================
Austria: Gentoo at the Grazer Linuxtage
---------------------------------------
As announced in last week's GWN, Gentoo was present at the Linuxtag in
Graz. Markus Lang, Roger Miliker[13], Gregor Perner and Wernfried Haas[14]
were present at the Gentoo booth, handing out LiveCDs on request, selling
case badges and chatting with users about Portage features, and giving
away stickers. As usually, the grml folks (who were next to Gentoo) asked
if we still were compiling stuff, which was promptly answered by
demonstrating the installer. Of course this was just poking fun at each
other between the different distributions, the teams from Funkfeuer,
Gentoo, grml and Debian had a good time with each other. Wernfried Haas
also held a workshop introducing people to IRC with focus on the popular
IRC client irssi and the Freenode network. Both visitors as well as the
exhibitors had fun at the GLT, thanks to the organisation team and see you
in 2007.
13. roger55@gentoo.org
14. amne@gentoo.org
Figure 3.1: Amne readjusting the word order
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060522_glt.jpg
Note: More pictures of the event can be found on
http://dufo.tugraz.at/glt06/
Italy: Gentoo at the Linux World Summit in Milano
-------------------------------------------------
Fellows from GeCHI (Gentoo CHannel Italia www.gechi.it) spent two intense
days at the Linux World Summit in Milan. Compared to past years, the
spaces reserved by the organization at the Marriot Hotel for the event
were small, which is probably why few commercial vendors were represented
in the exhibition hall. Stands managed by associations were bigger, more
colorful and funnier. As predicted in the last GWN, the GeCHI showed a Sun
Fire V120 and an OpenMosix cluster composed of four Via Epia motherboards,
both systems running Gentoo Linux. In the cluster only the first node is
connected to the two SATA disks, while the remaining three nodes boot from
network and are diskless. Due to its unusual casing, the cluster was at
the center of the public's attention on both days of the exhibition. The
GeCHI had also prepared a Gentoo brochure distributed at the stand, and
matching penguins and cows (as in: Larry) on offer.
Figure 3.1: One Larry, four Tuxes: The GeCHI at work
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060522_gechi.jpg
Note: Left to right, in the back: deadhead, blackman, ElDios, front:
mouser, riquitoi. More pictures of the event can be viewed at the GeCHI
website
======================
4. Gentoo in the press
======================
Dot KDE (16 May 2006)
---------------------
In a series of interviews with businesses that benefit from KDE -- or
vice-versa -- the KDE Dot News magazine spoke with Gentoo developer Caleb
Tennis[15] in his professional quality as system designer at AEI, a
company in Columbus, Indiana, specializing in diesel engine durability
assessment, exhaust research, performance development and numerous other
services. Caleb sees reliability as a key element in AEI's decision to run
Linux and KDE, as everything else "may be liveable on your girlfriend's
computer, but for one that's monitoring a $1,000,000 development engine,
it becomes pretty important to not have problems because 'Windows
crashed'."
15. http://dot.kde.org/1147698188/
Newsforge (19 May 2006)
-----------------------
Gentoo trustee and infrastructure lead Kurt Lieber[16] gets his say in an
article about Gentoo sponsor OSUOSL titled "Oregon lab plays Web host to
the stars of open source."[17] Setting the backdrop for the following
interview with OSUOSL's Scott Kveton, Kurt points out how fabulous the
open-source lab's services to Gentoo have been: "in fact, it's better than
what I would expect from commercial vendors in a lot of respects."
16. klieber@gentoo.org
17. http://mobile.newsforge.com/mobility/06/05/05/2018250.shtml
===
5.
===
Managing your overlays with layman
----------------------------------
Note: This is the first tips and tricks section in a while. If you have
tips and tricks you would like to share with the Gentoo community please
drop us a mail at gwn-feedback@gentoo.org.
layman is a small and nifty Python application written by Gentoo developer
Gunnar Wrobel[18] which allows to easily use and synchronize several
Portage overlays on your local machine.
18. wrobel@genoo.org
As of now there is no stable layman version available, so you need to add
layman to your package.keywords file before installing.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.1: |
| Installing layman |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|# echo "app-portage/layman" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
|# emerge layman |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
To include the overlays managed by layman to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable
you have to source a file where all layman-managed overlays listed. Note
that you can still add other overlays to the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in
/etc/make.conf.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.2: |
| Sourcing layman overlays |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|# echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Configuring layman is as easy as riding a bike ;) First you fetch a list
of available overlays and then start adding overlays you would like to
use.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.3: |
| Configure layman |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|Fetch list of available overlays |
|# layman -f |
| |
|Add the 'gentoo-de' overlay |
|# layman -a gentoo-de |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
layman -l gives you a list of all available overlays, using the -a switch
you can add other overlays.
The -s switch allows you to synchronize the local overlay copies. You can
choose between syncing one specific overlay or all overlays you added.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.4: |
| Synchronizing overlays |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|Synchronize the 'gentoo-de' overlay |
|# layman -s gentoo-de |
| |
|Synchronize all overlays |
|# layman -s ALL |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
=========================
6. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Rob Holland
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Steve Dibbs (beandog) - Planet
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* None this week
==================
7. Gentoo Security
==================
libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows
---------------------------------------------
libextractor is vulnerable to two heap overflow vulnerabilities which
could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-14.xml
Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities
----------------------------------------------
Quagga's RIP daemon allows the injection of routes and the disclosure of
routing information. The BGP daemon is vulnerable to a Denial of Service.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-15.xml
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 14 May 2006 and 21 May 2006, activity on the
site has resulted in:
21. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 653 new bugs during this period
* 323 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 10139 currently open bugs: 56 are labeled 'blocker', 149 are
labeled 'critical', and 524 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[22], with 21 closed bugs[23]
* GNU Emacs Herd[24], with 16 closed bugs[25]
* Gentoo Security[26], with 15 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Games[28], with 14 closed bugs[29]
* Robin Johnson[30], with 11 closed bugs[31]
* Portage team[32], with 11 closed bugs[33]
* Apache Herd - Bugzilla Reports[34], with 10 closed bugs[35]
* ppc64 architecture team[36], with 9 closed bugs[37]
22. gnome@gentoo.org
23.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
24. emacs@gentoo.org
25.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=emacs@gentoo.org
26. security@gentoo.org
27.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
28. games@gentoo.org
29.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
30. robbat2@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=robbat2@gentoo.org
32. dev-portage@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
34. apache-bugs@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=apache-bugs@gentoo.org
36. ppc64@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc64@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[38], with 22 new bugs[39]
* AMD64 Project[40], with 17 new bugs[41]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[42], with 11 new bugs[43]
* Jon Hood[44], with 9 new bugs[45]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[46], with 9 new bugs[47]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[48], with 8 new bugs[49]
* Diego Pettenò[50], with 8 new bugs[51]
* Gentoo Sound Team[52], with 7 new bugs[53]
38. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
40. amd64@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
42. gnome@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
44. squinky86@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=squinky86@gentoo.org
46. base-system@gentoo.org
47.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
48. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
49.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
50. flameeyes@gentoo.org
51.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=flameeyes@gentoo.org
52. sound@gentoo.org
53.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
===============
9. GWN feedback
===============
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54. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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1. Gentoo news
==============
GCC 4.1 on its way into Portage
-------------------------------
The long awaited moment of GCC 4.1 being unmasked has almost arrived. The
toolchain team will be unmasking gcc-4.1.1 this week after it is released.
The upgrade should be incredibly easy and require no additional work to
install and use. The number of applications that do not compile with
gcc-4.1 is extremely small now, and most users should not experience any
problems with ~arch packages not compiling. To upgrade to the new version
(assuming you are using gcc-3.4), all that is required is to upgrade GCC
and then select the new profile using gcc-config. If you are upgrading
from an earlier version of GCC, please refer to our GCC Upgrading Guide[1]
for more detailed instructions.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
If you run into any applications that do not compile, and they do not have
a bug currently open, please file a "GCC Porting" bug and assign it to
gcc-porting@gentoo.org so that the GCC Porting team can look into it.
Gentoo Summer of Code
---------------------
There were over 6400 applications from students, almost 90 mentoring
organizations - in almost every respect the Summer of Code program from
Google has grown a lot since last year. This year Gentoo will be one of
the mentoring organizations, with the UserRel project acting as organizer.
While the final numbers will be released on Monday the 22nd we can already
say that Gentoo got 130 applications. Out of these around 13 will be
sponsored by Google. We are very happy to see such a great interest in
Gentoo and hope that all sponsored projects will be successful!
Old-style PHP packages removed from Portage
-------------------------------------------
After being package.masked for quite some time, the old-style PHP packages
(dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi, dev-php/mod_php, and friends) have been
removed from the Portage tree. The new-style PHP packages (dev-lang/php,
dev-php4/*, dev-php5/*, and friends) are now stable on most architectures.
=========================
2. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-dev
----------
et_EE locale and language of error messages
The Gentoo bugwranglers often have to wrangle bugs that have error
messages in other languages. This makes it difficult to understand and to
find duplicates. A workaround for this issue would be to set the default
language used by portage to "C", which is (through historic precedents)
English and the default when nothing else is set. A different class of
bugs comes from the estonian locale, et_EE: As their alphabet ordering is
different some "silly" buildsystems stumble as [a-z] no longer matches all
letters. While these bugs can be really annoying they should be fixed.
Setting the locale to another language would prevent these bugs, but it is
recommended to fix it so that future problems are avoided.
* et_EE locale and language of error messages [2]
2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38378
New eclasses
As there are many different Revision Control Systems and it is often
useful to have ebuild support to check out files directly from a
repository this week gives us a few eclasses that help with managing
darcs, git and mercurial. Those three are relatively new RCS that are
already used by many projects instead of CVS or subversion.
* New eclasses [3]
3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38364
Signing everything, for fun and for profit
The first recorded discussions about signing all Gentoo-provided files to
avoid tampering go back to 2003. Since then there have been a few tries to
get a Gentoo-wide system to cryptographically sign all files, but there
was never a consensus, and in the end it never got fully implemented.
Patrick Lauer[4] revives the discussion in the hope of getting it finally
done.
4. patrick@gentoo.org
* Signing everything, for fun and for profit [5]
5. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38363
RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base
A new Gentoo project gets kickstarted by Sven Vermeulen[6]. The goal is to
create a knowledge base that "[...] provides answers to specific questions
and problems that users (or developers) might encounter. It is easily
searchable and maintained by developers who are knowledgeable in the
topic. The knowledge base entries ("topics" as I like to call them) are
not documentation guides, but very specific to a particular environment
and question."
6. swift@gentoo.org
* RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base [7]
7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38030
Paludis profiles yay or nay?
What started as a simple question by Stephen Bennett[8] whether there were
any objections to adding profiles for the Paludis package manager into the
mainline Gentoo tree became one of the fastest and most heated email
exchanges to happen on the gentoo-dev mailinglist. With around 300
messages in the main thread and three forked subthreads this is an
impressive debate:
8. spb@gentoo.org
* Paludis and Profiles [9]
* Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the
council) [10]
* RFC: etiquette enforcement [11]
* 259 paludis-profile messages. ENOUGH! [12]
9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38016
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38231
11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38342
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38351
Planet Gentoo
-------------
Baselayout 1.12 going stable?
Asked by many users Roy Marples now announced that there is only one
unionfs bug left before he starts building baselayout's 1.12.0 tarball. If
there don't occur any show-stopping bugs it will take another month before
baselayout-1.12.0 can be marked stable by our ARCH-teams.
* Baselayout 1.12 going stable?
Apache 2.0.58 now available
Later than expected Apache 2.0.58 finally made it into the tree, including
some changes how Apache works within Gentoo. Most notable is the
deprecation of net-www/gentoo-webroot-default as discussed in Bug #90748.
As of 2.0.58 the /var/www/localhost directory will be leaved untouched if
it exists. If it doesn’t exist, it will be created and populated.
* Apache 2.0.58 now available
=======================
3. Gentoo international
=======================
Austria: Gentoo at the Grazer Linuxtage
---------------------------------------
As announced in last week's GWN, Gentoo was present at the Linuxtag in
Graz. Markus Lang, Roger Miliker[13], Gregor Perner and Wernfried Haas[14]
were present at the Gentoo booth, handing out LiveCDs on request, selling
case badges and chatting with users about Portage features, and giving
away stickers. As usually, the grml folks (who were next to Gentoo) asked
if we still were compiling stuff, which was promptly answered by
demonstrating the installer. Of course this was just poking fun at each
other between the different distributions, the teams from Funkfeuer,
Gentoo, grml and Debian had a good time with each other. Wernfried Haas
also held a workshop introducing people to IRC with focus on the popular
IRC client irssi and the Freenode network. Both visitors as well as the
exhibitors had fun at the GLT, thanks to the organisation team and see you
in 2007.
13. roger55@gentoo.org
14. amne@gentoo.org
Figure 3.1: Amne readjusting the word order
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060522_glt.jpg
Note: More pictures of the event can be found on
http://dufo.tugraz.at/glt06/
Italy: Gentoo at the Linux World Summit in Milano
-------------------------------------------------
Fellows from GeCHI (Gentoo CHannel Italia www.gechi.it) spent two intense
days at the Linux World Summit in Milan. Compared to past years, the
spaces reserved by the organization at the Marriot Hotel for the event
were small, which is probably why few commercial vendors were represented
in the exhibition hall. Stands managed by associations were bigger, more
colorful and funnier. As predicted in the last GWN, the GeCHI showed a Sun
Fire V120 and an OpenMosix cluster composed of four Via Epia motherboards,
both systems running Gentoo Linux. In the cluster only the first node is
connected to the two SATA disks, while the remaining three nodes boot from
network and are diskless. Due to its unusual casing, the cluster was at
the center of the public's attention on both days of the exhibition. The
GeCHI had also prepared a Gentoo brochure distributed at the stand, and
matching penguins and cows (as in: Larry) on offer.
Figure 3.1: One Larry, four Tuxes: The GeCHI at work
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060522_gechi.jpg
Note: Left to right, in the back: deadhead, blackman, ElDios, front:
mouser, riquitoi. More pictures of the event can be viewed at the GeCHI
website
======================
4. Gentoo in the press
======================
Dot KDE (16 May 2006)
---------------------
In a series of interviews with businesses that benefit from KDE -- or
vice-versa -- the KDE Dot News magazine spoke with Gentoo developer Caleb
Tennis[15] in his professional quality as system designer at AEI, a
company in Columbus, Indiana, specializing in diesel engine durability
assessment, exhaust research, performance development and numerous other
services. Caleb sees reliability as a key element in AEI's decision to run
Linux and KDE, as everything else "may be liveable on your girlfriend's
computer, but for one that's monitoring a $1,000,000 development engine,
it becomes pretty important to not have problems because 'Windows
crashed'."
15. http://dot.kde.org/1147698188/
Newsforge (19 May 2006)
-----------------------
Gentoo trustee and infrastructure lead Kurt Lieber[16] gets his say in an
article about Gentoo sponsor OSUOSL titled "Oregon lab plays Web host to
the stars of open source."[17] Setting the backdrop for the following
interview with OSUOSL's Scott Kveton, Kurt points out how fabulous the
open-source lab's services to Gentoo have been: "in fact, it's better than
what I would expect from commercial vendors in a lot of respects."
16. klieber@gentoo.org
17. http://mobile.newsforge.com/mobility/06/05/05/2018250.shtml
===
5.
===
Managing your overlays with layman
----------------------------------
Note: This is the first tips and tricks section in a while. If you have
tips and tricks you would like to share with the Gentoo community please
drop us a mail at gwn-feedback@gentoo.org.
layman is a small and nifty Python application written by Gentoo developer
Gunnar Wrobel[18] which allows to easily use and synchronize several
Portage overlays on your local machine.
18. wrobel@genoo.org
As of now there is no stable layman version available, so you need to add
layman to your package.keywords file before installing.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.1: |
| Installing layman |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|# echo "app-portage/layman" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
|# emerge layman |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
To include the overlays managed by layman to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable
you have to source a file where all layman-managed overlays listed. Note
that you can still add other overlays to the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in
/etc/make.conf.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.2: |
| Sourcing layman overlays |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|# echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Configuring layman is as easy as riding a bike ;) First you fetch a list
of available overlays and then start adding overlays you would like to
use.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.3: |
| Configure layman |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|Fetch list of available overlays |
|# layman -f |
| |
|Add the 'gentoo-de' overlay |
|# layman -a gentoo-de |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
layman -l gives you a list of all available overlays, using the -a switch
you can add other overlays.
The -s switch allows you to synchronize the local overlay copies. You can
choose between syncing one specific overlay or all overlays you added.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 5.4: |
| Synchronizing overlays |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|Synchronize the 'gentoo-de' overlay |
|# layman -s gentoo-de |
| |
|Synchronize all overlays |
|# layman -s ALL |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
=========================
6. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Rob Holland
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Steve Dibbs (beandog) - Planet
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* None this week
==================
7. Gentoo Security
==================
libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows
---------------------------------------------
libextractor is vulnerable to two heap overflow vulnerabilities which
could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-14.xml
Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities
----------------------------------------------
Quagga's RIP daemon allows the injection of routes and the disclosure of
routing information. The BGP daemon is vulnerable to a Denial of Service.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-15.xml
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 14 May 2006 and 21 May 2006, activity on the
site has resulted in:
21. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 653 new bugs during this period
* 323 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 10139 currently open bugs: 56 are labeled 'blocker', 149 are
labeled 'critical', and 524 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[22], with 21 closed bugs[23]
* GNU Emacs Herd[24], with 16 closed bugs[25]
* Gentoo Security[26], with 15 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Games[28], with 14 closed bugs[29]
* Robin Johnson[30], with 11 closed bugs[31]
* Portage team[32], with 11 closed bugs[33]
* Apache Herd - Bugzilla Reports[34], with 10 closed bugs[35]
* ppc64 architecture team[36], with 9 closed bugs[37]
22. gnome@gentoo.org
23.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
24. emacs@gentoo.org
25.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=emacs@gentoo.org
26. security@gentoo.org
27.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
28. games@gentoo.org
29.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
30. robbat2@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=robbat2@gentoo.org
32. dev-portage@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
34. apache-bugs@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=apache-bugs@gentoo.org
36. ppc64@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc64@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[38], with 22 new bugs[39]
* AMD64 Project[40], with 17 new bugs[41]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[42], with 11 new bugs[43]
* Jon Hood[44], with 9 new bugs[45]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[46], with 9 new bugs[47]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[48], with 8 new bugs[49]
* Diego Pettenò[50], with 8 new bugs[51]
* Gentoo Sound Team[52], with 7 new bugs[53]
38. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
40. amd64@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
42. gnome@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
44. squinky86@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=squinky86@gentoo.org
46. base-system@gentoo.org
47.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
48. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
49.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
50. flameeyes@gentoo.org
51.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=flameeyes@gentoo.org
52. sound@gentoo.org
53.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-05-14&chfieldto=2006-05-21&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
===============
9. GWN feedback
===============
Please send us your feedback[54] and help make the GWN better.
54. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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