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From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 3 April 2006
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:49:30
Message-Id: 20060403081500.GM27139@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
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2 Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
3 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
4 This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 3 April 2006.
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6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo news
9 ==============
10
11 Gentoo/MIPS for Cobalt stages available
12 ---------------------------------------
13
14 Stuart Longland[1] announced the availabity of stage 3 tarballs for Cobalt
15 servers[2]. This completes the 2006.0 release for the MIPS architecture to
16 include Cobalt Qubes and RaQs on top of the Silicon Graphics machine
17 support that was already pushed to the mirrors last month. If you own a
18 Cobalt server, please test the new stage 3 and report your findings back
19 to Stuart.
20
21 1. redhatter@g.o
22 2. http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/cobalt/about/
23
24 ==============
25 2. Future zone
26 ==============
27
28 Kolab and Gentoo
29 ----------------
30
31 Most of the current open-source groupware systems that are comparable to
32 the Microsoft Exchange Server are build out of a high number of
33 sub-services like LDAP, Apache, Postfix etc. Kolab is a typical example of
34 such an aggregated system.
35
36 A main feature of Kolab is the use of IMAP to store groupware information
37 like addresses, events, notes etc. This allows to reduce the main
38 components of the system to OpenLDAP, Postfix and Cyrus-Imapd. This makes
39 the server somewhat more lightweight than competitors such as
40 Open-Exchange. It is also one of the few groupware servers that has full
41 support for e-mail clients on Linux (Kontact) and Windows (Outlook) and
42 works together with a web client (Horde). Thus it can be easily employed
43 in an environment with mixed requirements.
44
45 The main obstacle for molding a multi-component system into an efficient
46 groupware server on Linux is obviously the configuration. The e-mail
47 service needs to work together with virus and spam scanning tools, sending
48 and receiving mail requires the setup of appropriate channels, each
49 service needs to use a central user database, etc.
50
51 One option of dealing with the configuration is to leave the configuration
52 of sub services in the state suggested by the distribution and provide a
53 lengthy document that describes all necessary tweaks and changes to get
54 the system up and running. This has the advantage that the groupware
55 server is rather distribution independent.
56
57 Kolab chose a different method and tries to fully automate the
58 configuration process. This is extremely nice for the end user since it
59 usually means that it is not necessary to have the manuals of Postfix,
60 Cyrus-Imap, Apache etc. at hand. But on the other hand it is a nightmare
61 for the developer if the goal is to enable the system for most
62 distributions. One would have to take all the small but important
63 differences between these distributions into account. So the companies
64 involved in creating Kolab selected one distribution (OpenPKG) and decided
65 to establish the system only for OpenPKG. In order to install Kolab on a
66 different distribution you would simply add a complete OpenPKG
67 installation resulting in a somewhat awkward "system in a system"
68 situation.
69
70 During the last three months several volunteers helped on converting Kolab
71 to tools such as autoconf and automake in order to have a build system
72 that allows the transfer of Kolab to other Linux distributions. This
73 finally allowed to get a native Kolab server environment in Gentoo. The
74 beta stage of the project can be found here[3]. It is expected to be fully
75 stabilized once Kolab-2.1 will be released upstream.
76
77 3. http://projects.gunnarwrobel.de/Kolab/wiki
78
79 What are the advantages of having Kolab available as a native Gentoo
80 system? First of all you get rid of the rpm system that you had to use for
81 the OpenPKG version. As a Gentoo user this feels more than awkward since
82 the choice to bear with compile times was not made without a reason. With
83 the independence of the OpenPKG distribution also comes a far greater
84 potential for extension of the system. You want telephony? Integrate it
85 with asterisk. You need a document management system? Why not activate the
86 LDAP features of knowledgetree in order to provide your mail users will a
87 full-blown DMS system. You need website access? DAV? SVN? Trac? Anything
88 on apache that requires authentication and can use LDAP should be no
89 problem. In essence, Gentoo is the optimal system to enhance some of the
90 existing ebuilds with a "kolab" USE flag in order to provide a groupware
91 server with exciting new features. While this is not yet available, work
92 is underway to achieve this.
93
94 =========================
95 3. Heard in the community
96 =========================
97
98 Web forums
99 ----------
100
101 Libexpat ABI change catches ~ARCH users by surprise
102
103 Major uproar in the Forums this past weekend: the application binary
104 interface of the expat library changed with the upgrade to 2.0.0, and as a
105 result a whole wave of system breakage washed over many Gentoo users who
106 hadn't seen the small print in the ebuild telling them to revdep-rebuild
107 everything that depended on libexpat.so.0. This sticky thread now makes
108 sure everybody knows what needs to be done:
109
110 * libexpat 2.0.0 ABI breakage[4]
111 4. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-448550.html
112
113
114 =======================
115 4. Gentoo international
116 =======================
117
118 USA: Gentoo at Boston Linux World Expo
119 --------------------------------------
120
121 Christian Fernandez of VoiceSignal Technologies, Inc. will hold a Birds of
122 Feather session[5] at this year's Boston LWE. Besides Christian's talk on
123 Portage and Gentoo scheduled for 6 April at 18:30, the project will again
124 be represented at the show with a booth of its own. Join them from 3 to 6
125 April at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, MA.
126
127 5. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYA04R2O6
128
129 =========================
130 5. Gentoo developer moves
131 =========================
132
133 Moves
134 -----
135
136 The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
137
138 * None this week
139
140 Adds
141 ----
142
143 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
144
145 * Thomas Cort (tcort) - Alpha, sound
146
147 Changes
148 -------
149
150 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
151
152 * None this week
153
154 ==================
155 6. Gentoo Security
156 ==================
157
158 OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl
159 -------------------------------------------------
160
161 OpenOffice.org contains a vulnerable version of libcurl that may cause a
162 heap overflow when parsing URLs.
163
164 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[6]
165
166 6. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-25.xml
167
168 bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd
169 ---------------------------------------------------
170
171 tetris-bsd is prone to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
172
173 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[7]
174
175 7. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-26.xml
176
177 ===========
178 7. Bugzilla
179 ===========
180
181 Statistics
182 ----------
183
184 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[8]) to record and
185 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
186 development team. Between 26 March 2006 and 02 April 2006, activity on the
187 site has resulted in:
188
189 8. http://bugs.gentoo.org
190
191 * 869 new bugs during this period
192 * 392 bugs closed or resolved during this period
193 * 18 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
194
195 Of the 9788 currently open bugs: 65 are labeled 'blocker', 152 are labeled
196 'critical', and 531 are labeled 'major'.
197
198 Closed bug rankings
199 -------------------
200
201 The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
202 are:
203
204 * Gentoo Games[9], with 34 closed bugs[10]
205 * Gentoo X-windows packagers[11], with 26 closed bugs[12]
206 * Jeremy Huddleston[13], with 20 closed bugs[14]
207 * Gentoo KDE team[15], with 19 closed bugs[16]
208 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[17], with 14 closed bugs[18]
209 * Gentoo Security[19], with 13 closed bugs[20]
210 * Netmon Herd[21], with 13 closed bugs[22]
211 * media-video herd[23], with 13 closed bugs[24]
212 9. games@g.o
213 10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o
214 11. x11@g.o
215 12. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=x11@g.o
216 13. eradicator@g.o
217 14. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@g.o
218 15. kde@g.o
219 16. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o
220 17. gnome@g.o
221 18. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o
222 19. security@g.o
223 20. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o
224 21. netmon@g.o
225 22. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@g.o
226 23. media-video@g.o
227 24. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@g.o
228
229
230 New bug rankings
231 ----------------
232
233 The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
234 this period are:
235
236 * Default Assignee for New Packages[25], with 34 new bugs[26]
237 * Gentoo X-windows packagers[27], with 14 new bugs[28]
238 * X11 External Driver Maintainers[29], with 13 new bugs[30]
239 * AMD64 Project[31], with 11 new bugs[32]
240 * Gentoo Sound Team[33], with 10 new bugs[34]
241 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[35], with 9 new bugs[36]
242 * media-video herd[37], with 8 new bugs[38]
243 * Gentoo Games[39], with 7 new bugs[40]
244 25. maintainer-wanted@g.o
245 26. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o
246 27. x11@g.o
247 28. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=x11@g.o
248 29. x11-drivers@g.o
249 30. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=x11-drivers@g.o
250 31. amd64@g.o
251 32. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=amd64@g.o
252 33. sound@g.o
253 34. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=sound@g.o
254 35. gnome@g.o
255 36. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=gnome@g.o
256 37. media-video@g.o
257 38. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=media-video@g.o
258 39. games@g.o
259 40. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=games@g.o
260
261
262 ===============
263 8. GWN feedback
264 ===============
265
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