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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061204-newsletter.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 4 December 2006.
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1. Gentoo News
==============
Gentoo Linux on the Playstation 3
---------------------------------
So you waited in line for 36 hours, dodging bullets and armed thugs, to get
your shiny new Playstation 3, now what do you do with it? Install Gentoo
Linux, of course!
Several people have worked on getting Gentoo set up on their PS3. If you are
interested in doing this yourself, there are some instructions[1] to get you
on your way. The author explains what is necessary before starting your
install, and gives directions on how to proceed, along with some pictures of
the system booting both the Gentoo Linux PPC64 InstallCD[2] and the
system[3] after installation.
1. http://whitesanjuro.googlepages.com/
2. http://picasaweb.google.com/whitesanjuro/Ps3DayOne/photo#4998546376786706450
3. http://picasaweb.google.com/whitesanjuro/Ps3DayTwo/photo#4998878606740422674
Also of interest to CELL users will be Luca Barbato[4]'s developer
overlay[5], which contains newer CELL packages, as well as some information
in the wiki that Luca has gathered together.
4. lu_zero@gentoo.org
5. http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/lu_zero
Southern California Linux Expo 5x opens registration
----------------------------------------------------
Effective immediately, registration for SCALE 5X is available at
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/order. The early bird ticket price is $60 for
full admission with a $30 admission for students with a valid ID. Prices go
up on January 24th, so register today.
If you're interested in seeing who's participating in SCALE, the exhibitor
list is at http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/exhibitions.php. Gentoo will be
exhibiting at the show, come out and support your fellow developers!
SCALE will be February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport. For
those staying over, The Westin is offering special hotel room rates for the
Expo. Hotel information is available at
http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/location.php.
New user representative elected
-------------------------------
As of Friday 17th November, George Prowse, known to most as cokehabit, has
left the Gentoo User Relations project and his position as User
Representative. Regrettably, as things turned out, he did not fit the role
as well as many had hoped, and it was decided that it would be in everyone's
best interests to part ways. We would like to thank George for his time and
work as a user representative, and wish him luck in his future endeavors.
On a related note, it was resolved at a meeting between User Relations and
the User Representatives on December 2nd, 2006 to instate Alex Bokag aka
djay-il as the eleventh and last User Representative. This motion passed
unanimously and Alex accepted the position with immediate effect. We welcome
Alex on-board and look forward to working closely with him over the next
year.
=========================
2. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-dev
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[RFC] Add ALSA_CARDS to USE_EXPAND
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò noticed that the alsa-drivers package didn't have
ALSA_CARDS as an USE-expanded variable. He tried it out and thought it
looked fine.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.1 |
| Diego's Output |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Calculating dependencies... done! |
| [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_pre20061130 USE="-debug -doc |
| oss" |
| ALSA_CARDS="-ad1816a% -ad1848% -ad1848-lib% -ad1889% -adlib% -ali5451% -als100% |
| -als300% -als4000% -aoa% -aoa-fabric-layout% -aoa-onyx% -aoa-soundbus% |
| -aoa-soundbus-i2s% -aoa-tas% -aoa-toonie% -armaaci% -asihpi% -at91-soc% |
| -at91-soc-eti-b1-wm8731% -atiixp% -atiixp-modem% -au1x00% -au8810% -au8820% |
| -au8830% -azt2320% -azt3328% bt87x%* -ca0106% -cmi8330% -cmipci% -cs4231% |
| -cs4231-lib% -cs4232% -cs4236% -cs4281% -cs46xx% -cs5535audio% -darla20% |
| -darla24% -dt019x% -dummy% -echo3g% -emu10k1% -emu10k1x% -ens1370% -ens1371% |
| -es1688% -es18xx% -es1938% -es1968% -es968% -fm801% -fm801-tea575x% -gina20% |
| -gina24% -gusclassic% -gusextreme% -gusmax% -harmony% -hda-intel% -hdsp% |
| -hdspm% -ice1712% -ice1724% -indigo% -indigodj% -indigoio% -intel8x0% |
| -intel8x0m% -interwave% -interwave-stb% -korg1212% -layla20% -layla24% |
| -loopback% -maestro3% -mia% -miro% -mixart% -mona% -mpu401% -msnd-pinnacle% |
| -mtpav% -mts64% -nm256% -opl3sa2% -opti92x-ad1848% -opti92x-cs4231% -opti93x% |
| -pc98-cs4232% -pcsp% -pcxhr% -pdaudiocf% -pdplus% -portman2x4% -powermac% |
| -pxa2xx-i2sound% -pxa2xx-soc% -pxa2xx-soc-corgi% -pxa2xx-soc-poodle% |
| -pxa2xx-soc-spitz% -pxa2xx-soc-tosa% -riptide% -rme32% -rme96% -rme9652% |
| -s3c2410% -sa11xx-uda1341% -sb16% -sb8% -sbawe% -seq-dummy% -serial-u16550% |
| -serialmidi% -sgalaxy% -soc% -sonicvibes% -sscape% -sun-amd7930% -sun-cs4231% |
| -sun-dbri% -trident% -usb-audio% -usb-usx2y% via82xx%* -via82xx-modem% |
| -virmidi% -vx222% -vxpocket% -wavefront% -ymfpci%" 0 kB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Diego asked if there was any reason he shouldn't implement this. Marius
Mauch had no objection, so long as the default settings were sane. He
indicated that he doubted the sanity of the above list of potential drivers.
Diego responded that by default, all drivers were built. To objections from
Petteri Räty that it should, like other IUSE items, work in the opposite way
(enabling nothing unless selected), Diego noted that there were some IUSE
which enabled all by default (e.g., LINGUAS in small packages). In any
event, after some back and forth, per-arch defaults were proposed:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.2 |
| x86/amd64 defaults |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ali5451 atiixp atiixp-modem cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 fm801 |
| hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 mpu401 usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.3 |
| ppc defaults |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| aoa aoa-fabric-layout aoa-onyx aoa-soundbus aoa-soundbus-i2s aoa-tas |
| aoa-toonie powermac usb-audio |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.4 |
| sparc defaults |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| sun-amd7930 sun-cs4231 sun-dbri |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141321.xml
udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules
Sven Köhler was aggravated by the coldplugging functionality of udev-103.
For years he had guaranteed the order of his interfaces by specifying the
order of loading of the relevant modules in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.?.
Stephen Bennet suggested that Sven use the MAC address of his network cards
to create a udev rule to reliably name his interfaces. Sven wanted to learn
more about using udev with network cards and Jean-François Gagnon Laporte
directed him to the relevant portion of Daniel Drake's udev rules page[6].
6. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-netif
Kernel hacker and father of udev Greg Kroah-Hartman also sprang to the
defense of his brainchild. Sven would be best off using udev to specify the
name of the interfaces. If he really wanted to remove udev from the
equation, he could put the modules on udev's blacklist and load them by hand
as he'd always done. If he were to adopt the latter course, he'd have to
wait a bit as the blacklisting functionality was under repair.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141352.xml
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3. Tips and Tricks
==================
An easier way to update your world
----------------------------------
Without doubt, one of Gentoo's best features is its package management
system, Portage. Portage makes it very easy to update your entire system
with one simple command. Sadly, things don't always go as smooth as they
should. Almost every Gentoo user has typed emerge -uD world and gone to bed
with the hope of waking up in the morning to a completely up to date system.
Unfortunately, it's more likely that you.ll wake up to a failed emerge on
package 3 of 220. And so the troubleshoot and emerge --resume process
begins.
Enter update-world to save the day. Update-world is a bash script that was
recently created by count_zero and posted[7] in the forums. The script
controls the update process and forces portage to skip past failed builds
and continue compiling packages until the update list is finished. Failed
builds are added to a list for review once the update is finished.
7. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-497125.html
Note: The script does depend on the 'equery' command, part of
app-portage/gentoolkit.
Obviously before you can start using the script, you'll need to download it,
put it somewhere in your path, and make it executable.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.1 |
| getting the script |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # wget -O /usr/bin/update-world http://countzero.amidal.com/files/update-world |
| # chmod +x /usr/bin/update-world |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Now we're ready to start using the script.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.2 |
| running update-world |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # update-world --prepare |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This begins the update process by creating a list of packages to be emerged,
as produced by emerge -uD --newuse world. (Alternatively, you can use
update-world --empty to create a list of all packages on the system, akin to
emerge -e world). This command creates a list called 'emergelist' in
~/.update-world/. Now, you can use your favorite editor to modify this list
how you like--remove packages, change versions, etc. When you have the
emergelist how you like it, you're ready to move onto the next step:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.3 |
| running update-world (cont) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # update-world --install |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This command actually starts the build process, just as if you had typed
emerge -uD world. The difference is, if a package fails for some reason or
another, that package is added to a list 'failedlist' in ~/.update-world/.
Also, a link to the portage log file for that package (usually located in
/var/log/portage) is created in ~/.update-world/[date]/log/. Once the
process is done, you'll be presented with a list of failed packages to take
care of all at once, saving much time. If you ever need to stop the process,
just hit 'Control-C' to abort the process. The update can then be restarted
at any time, just where it left off, by retyping update-world --install.
=========================
4. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Stuart Herbert (Stuart)
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Alexander Gabert (pappy) Hardened team
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
==================
5. Gentoo security
==================
Kile: Incorrect backup file permission
--------------------------------------
Kile uses default permissions for backup files, potentially leading to
information disclosure.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-21.xml
Ingo H3: Folder name shell command injection
--------------------------------------------
Ingo H3 is vulnerable to arbitrary shell command execution when handling
procmail rules.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-22.xml
Mono: Insecure temporary file creation
--------------------------------------
Mono is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to
overwrite arbitrary files.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-23.xml
LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities
-----------------------------
LHa is affected by several vulnerabilities including the remote execution of
arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-24.xml
OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability
-----------------------------------------
A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial
of Service.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml
ProFTPD: Remote execution of arbitrary code
-------------------------------------------
ProFTPD is affected by multiple vulnerabilities allowing for the remote
execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13]
13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
============================
6. Upcoming package removals
============================
This is a list of packages that have been announced to be removed in the
future. The package removals come from many locations, including the
Treecleaners[14] and various developers.
14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners
Last Rites:
-----------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
app-xemacs/liece 26 Dec 06 Hans de Graaff[15]
net-p2p/gtkhx 26 Dec 06 Steve Dibb[16]
=net-misc/nxserver-personal-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
=net-misc/nxserver-businessl-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
=net-misc/nxserver-enterprise-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
media-video/vlms 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-video/vls 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-libs/libvideogfx 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-video/sampeg3 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
15. graaff@gentoo.org
16. beandog@gentoo.org
17. stuart@gentoo.org
18. zzam@gentoo.org
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7. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[19]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 26 November 2006 and 03 December 2006, activity on the site
has resulted in:
19. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 688 new bugs during this period
* 440 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 171 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 209 bugs marked as duplicates during this period
Of the 10698 currently open bugs: 27 are labeled 'blocker', 106 are labeled
'critical', and 457 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Project[20], with 35 closed bugs[21]
* Gentoo TreeCleaner Project[22], with 28 closed bugs[23]
* media-video herd[24], with 19 closed bugs[25]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[26], with 18 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Security[28], with 14 closed bugs[29]
* Netmon Herd[30], with 12 closed bugs[31]
* Gentoo KDE team[32], with 12 closed bugs[33]
* Gentoo Games[34], with 12 closed bugs[35]
20. amd64@gentoo.org
21. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
22. treecleaner@gentoo.org
23. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=treecleaner@gentoo.org
24. media-video@gentoo.org
25. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
26. base-system@gentoo.org
27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
28. security@gentoo.org
29. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
30. netmon@gentoo.org
31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
32. kde@gentoo.org
33. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
34. games@gentoo.org
35. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@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[36], with 27 new bugs[37]
* Alpha Porters[38], with 26 new bugs[39]
* AMD64 Project[20], with 9 new bugs[40]
* X11 External Driver Maintainers[41], with 8 new bugs[42]
* Gentoo Sound Team[43], with 8 new bugs[44]
* mips team[45], with 8 new bugs[46]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[47], with 7 new bugs[48]
* media-video herd[24], with 7 new bugs[49]
20. amd64@gentoo.org
24. media-video@gentoo.org
36. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
37. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
38. alpha@gentoo.org
39. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=alpha@gentoo.org
40. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
41. x11-drivers@gentoo.org
42. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=x11-drivers@gentoo.org
43. sound@gentoo.org
44. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
45. mips@gentoo.org
46. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=mips@gentoo.org
47. x11@gentoo.org
48. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 4 December 2006.
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==============
1. Gentoo News
==============
Gentoo Linux on the Playstation 3
---------------------------------
So you waited in line for 36 hours, dodging bullets and armed thugs, to get
your shiny new Playstation 3, now what do you do with it? Install Gentoo
Linux, of course!
Several people have worked on getting Gentoo set up on their PS3. If you are
interested in doing this yourself, there are some instructions[1] to get you
on your way. The author explains what is necessary before starting your
install, and gives directions on how to proceed, along with some pictures of
the system booting both the Gentoo Linux PPC64 InstallCD[2] and the
system[3] after installation.
1. http://whitesanjuro.googlepages.com/
2. http://picasaweb.google.com/whitesanjuro/Ps3DayOne/photo#4998546376786706450
3. http://picasaweb.google.com/whitesanjuro/Ps3DayTwo/photo#4998878606740422674
Also of interest to CELL users will be Luca Barbato[4]'s developer
overlay[5], which contains newer CELL packages, as well as some information
in the wiki that Luca has gathered together.
4. lu_zero@gentoo.org
5. http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/lu_zero
Southern California Linux Expo 5x opens registration
----------------------------------------------------
Effective immediately, registration for SCALE 5X is available at
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/order. The early bird ticket price is $60 for
full admission with a $30 admission for students with a valid ID. Prices go
up on January 24th, so register today.
If you're interested in seeing who's participating in SCALE, the exhibitor
list is at http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/exhibitions.php. Gentoo will be
exhibiting at the show, come out and support your fellow developers!
SCALE will be February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport. For
those staying over, The Westin is offering special hotel room rates for the
Expo. Hotel information is available at
http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/location.php.
New user representative elected
-------------------------------
As of Friday 17th November, George Prowse, known to most as cokehabit, has
left the Gentoo User Relations project and his position as User
Representative. Regrettably, as things turned out, he did not fit the role
as well as many had hoped, and it was decided that it would be in everyone's
best interests to part ways. We would like to thank George for his time and
work as a user representative, and wish him luck in his future endeavors.
On a related note, it was resolved at a meeting between User Relations and
the User Representatives on December 2nd, 2006 to instate Alex Bokag aka
djay-il as the eleventh and last User Representative. This motion passed
unanimously and Alex accepted the position with immediate effect. We welcome
Alex on-board and look forward to working closely with him over the next
year.
=========================
2. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-dev
----------
[RFC] Add ALSA_CARDS to USE_EXPAND
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò noticed that the alsa-drivers package didn't have
ALSA_CARDS as an USE-expanded variable. He tried it out and thought it
looked fine.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.1 |
| Diego's Output |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Calculating dependencies... done! |
| [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_pre20061130 USE="-debug -doc |
| oss" |
| ALSA_CARDS="-ad1816a% -ad1848% -ad1848-lib% -ad1889% -adlib% -ali5451% -als100% |
| -als300% -als4000% -aoa% -aoa-fabric-layout% -aoa-onyx% -aoa-soundbus% |
| -aoa-soundbus-i2s% -aoa-tas% -aoa-toonie% -armaaci% -asihpi% -at91-soc% |
| -at91-soc-eti-b1-wm8731% -atiixp% -atiixp-modem% -au1x00% -au8810% -au8820% |
| -au8830% -azt2320% -azt3328% bt87x%* -ca0106% -cmi8330% -cmipci% -cs4231% |
| -cs4231-lib% -cs4232% -cs4236% -cs4281% -cs46xx% -cs5535audio% -darla20% |
| -darla24% -dt019x% -dummy% -echo3g% -emu10k1% -emu10k1x% -ens1370% -ens1371% |
| -es1688% -es18xx% -es1938% -es1968% -es968% -fm801% -fm801-tea575x% -gina20% |
| -gina24% -gusclassic% -gusextreme% -gusmax% -harmony% -hda-intel% -hdsp% |
| -hdspm% -ice1712% -ice1724% -indigo% -indigodj% -indigoio% -intel8x0% |
| -intel8x0m% -interwave% -interwave-stb% -korg1212% -layla20% -layla24% |
| -loopback% -maestro3% -mia% -miro% -mixart% -mona% -mpu401% -msnd-pinnacle% |
| -mtpav% -mts64% -nm256% -opl3sa2% -opti92x-ad1848% -opti92x-cs4231% -opti93x% |
| -pc98-cs4232% -pcsp% -pcxhr% -pdaudiocf% -pdplus% -portman2x4% -powermac% |
| -pxa2xx-i2sound% -pxa2xx-soc% -pxa2xx-soc-corgi% -pxa2xx-soc-poodle% |
| -pxa2xx-soc-spitz% -pxa2xx-soc-tosa% -riptide% -rme32% -rme96% -rme9652% |
| -s3c2410% -sa11xx-uda1341% -sb16% -sb8% -sbawe% -seq-dummy% -serial-u16550% |
| -serialmidi% -sgalaxy% -soc% -sonicvibes% -sscape% -sun-amd7930% -sun-cs4231% |
| -sun-dbri% -trident% -usb-audio% -usb-usx2y% via82xx%* -via82xx-modem% |
| -virmidi% -vx222% -vxpocket% -wavefront% -ymfpci%" 0 kB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Diego asked if there was any reason he shouldn't implement this. Marius
Mauch had no objection, so long as the default settings were sane. He
indicated that he doubted the sanity of the above list of potential drivers.
Diego responded that by default, all drivers were built. To objections from
Petteri Räty that it should, like other IUSE items, work in the opposite way
(enabling nothing unless selected), Diego noted that there were some IUSE
which enabled all by default (e.g., LINGUAS in small packages). In any
event, after some back and forth, per-arch defaults were proposed:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.2 |
| x86/amd64 defaults |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ali5451 atiixp atiixp-modem cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 fm801 |
| hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 mpu401 usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.3 |
| ppc defaults |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| aoa aoa-fabric-layout aoa-onyx aoa-soundbus aoa-soundbus-i2s aoa-tas |
| aoa-toonie powermac usb-audio |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 2.4 |
| sparc defaults |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| sun-amd7930 sun-cs4231 sun-dbri |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141321.xml
udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules
Sven Köhler was aggravated by the coldplugging functionality of udev-103.
For years he had guaranteed the order of his interfaces by specifying the
order of loading of the relevant modules in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.?.
Stephen Bennet suggested that Sven use the MAC address of his network cards
to create a udev rule to reliably name his interfaces. Sven wanted to learn
more about using udev with network cards and Jean-François Gagnon Laporte
directed him to the relevant portion of Daniel Drake's udev rules page[6].
6. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-netif
Kernel hacker and father of udev Greg Kroah-Hartman also sprang to the
defense of his brainchild. Sven would be best off using udev to specify the
name of the interfaces. If he really wanted to remove udev from the
equation, he could put the modules on udev's blacklist and load them by hand
as he'd always done. If he were to adopt the latter course, he'd have to
wait a bit as the blacklisting functionality was under repair.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141352.xml
==================
3. Tips and Tricks
==================
An easier way to update your world
----------------------------------
Without doubt, one of Gentoo's best features is its package management
system, Portage. Portage makes it very easy to update your entire system
with one simple command. Sadly, things don't always go as smooth as they
should. Almost every Gentoo user has typed emerge -uD world and gone to bed
with the hope of waking up in the morning to a completely up to date system.
Unfortunately, it's more likely that you.ll wake up to a failed emerge on
package 3 of 220. And so the troubleshoot and emerge --resume process
begins.
Enter update-world to save the day. Update-world is a bash script that was
recently created by count_zero and posted[7] in the forums. The script
controls the update process and forces portage to skip past failed builds
and continue compiling packages until the update list is finished. Failed
builds are added to a list for review once the update is finished.
7. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-497125.html
Note: The script does depend on the 'equery' command, part of
app-portage/gentoolkit.
Obviously before you can start using the script, you'll need to download it,
put it somewhere in your path, and make it executable.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.1 |
| getting the script |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # wget -O /usr/bin/update-world http://countzero.amidal.com/files/update-world |
| # chmod +x /usr/bin/update-world |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Now we're ready to start using the script.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.2 |
| running update-world |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # update-world --prepare |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This begins the update process by creating a list of packages to be emerged,
as produced by emerge -uD --newuse world. (Alternatively, you can use
update-world --empty to create a list of all packages on the system, akin to
emerge -e world). This command creates a list called 'emergelist' in
~/.update-world/. Now, you can use your favorite editor to modify this list
how you like--remove packages, change versions, etc. When you have the
emergelist how you like it, you're ready to move onto the next step:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.3 |
| running update-world (cont) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # update-world --install |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This command actually starts the build process, just as if you had typed
emerge -uD world. The difference is, if a package fails for some reason or
another, that package is added to a list 'failedlist' in ~/.update-world/.
Also, a link to the portage log file for that package (usually located in
/var/log/portage) is created in ~/.update-world/[date]/log/. Once the
process is done, you'll be presented with a list of failed packages to take
care of all at once, saving much time. If you ever need to stop the process,
just hit 'Control-C' to abort the process. The update can then be restarted
at any time, just where it left off, by retyping update-world --install.
=========================
4. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Stuart Herbert (Stuart)
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Alexander Gabert (pappy) Hardened team
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
==================
5. Gentoo security
==================
Kile: Incorrect backup file permission
--------------------------------------
Kile uses default permissions for backup files, potentially leading to
information disclosure.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-21.xml
Ingo H3: Folder name shell command injection
--------------------------------------------
Ingo H3 is vulnerable to arbitrary shell command execution when handling
procmail rules.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-22.xml
Mono: Insecure temporary file creation
--------------------------------------
Mono is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to
overwrite arbitrary files.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-23.xml
LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities
-----------------------------
LHa is affected by several vulnerabilities including the remote execution of
arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-24.xml
OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability
-----------------------------------------
A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial
of Service.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml
ProFTPD: Remote execution of arbitrary code
-------------------------------------------
ProFTPD is affected by multiple vulnerabilities allowing for the remote
execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13]
13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
============================
6. Upcoming package removals
============================
This is a list of packages that have been announced to be removed in the
future. The package removals come from many locations, including the
Treecleaners[14] and various developers.
14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners
Last Rites:
-----------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
app-xemacs/liece 26 Dec 06 Hans de Graaff[15]
net-p2p/gtkhx 26 Dec 06 Steve Dibb[16]
=net-misc/nxserver-personal-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
=net-misc/nxserver-businessl-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
=net-misc/nxserver-enterprise-1.5* 27 Dec 06 Stuart Herbert[17]
media-video/vlms 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-video/vls 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-libs/libvideogfx 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
media-video/sampeg3 29 Dec 06 Matthias Schwarzott[18]
15. graaff@gentoo.org
16. beandog@gentoo.org
17. stuart@gentoo.org
18. zzam@gentoo.org
===========
7. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[19]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 26 November 2006 and 03 December 2006, activity on the site
has resulted in:
19. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 688 new bugs during this period
* 440 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 171 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 209 bugs marked as duplicates during this period
Of the 10698 currently open bugs: 27 are labeled 'blocker', 106 are labeled
'critical', and 457 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Project[20], with 35 closed bugs[21]
* Gentoo TreeCleaner Project[22], with 28 closed bugs[23]
* media-video herd[24], with 19 closed bugs[25]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[26], with 18 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Security[28], with 14 closed bugs[29]
* Netmon Herd[30], with 12 closed bugs[31]
* Gentoo KDE team[32], with 12 closed bugs[33]
* Gentoo Games[34], with 12 closed bugs[35]
20. amd64@gentoo.org
21. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
22. treecleaner@gentoo.org
23. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=treecleaner@gentoo.org
24. media-video@gentoo.org
25. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
26. base-system@gentoo.org
27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
28. security@gentoo.org
29. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
30. netmon@gentoo.org
31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
32. kde@gentoo.org
33. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
34. games@gentoo.org
35. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@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[36], with 27 new bugs[37]
* Alpha Porters[38], with 26 new bugs[39]
* AMD64 Project[20], with 9 new bugs[40]
* X11 External Driver Maintainers[41], with 8 new bugs[42]
* Gentoo Sound Team[43], with 8 new bugs[44]
* mips team[45], with 8 new bugs[46]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[47], with 7 new bugs[48]
* media-video herd[24], with 7 new bugs[49]
20. amd64@gentoo.org
24. media-video@gentoo.org
36. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
37. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
38. alpha@gentoo.org
39. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=alpha@gentoo.org
40. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
41. x11-drivers@gentoo.org
42. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=x11-drivers@gentoo.org
43. sound@gentoo.org
44. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
45. mips@gentoo.org
46. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=mips@gentoo.org
47. x11@gentoo.org
48. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-26&chfieldto=2006-12-03&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
===============
8. GWN feedback
===============
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feedback on an article that we have posted, or just have an idea or article
that you would like to submit to the GWN, please send us your feedback[50]
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50. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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