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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml |
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of February 24th, 2003. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Summary |
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* Gentoo Linux partners with NeTraverse |
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* Gentoo Linux 1.4 update |
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* Pictures of FOSDEM |
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Gentoo Linux partners with NeTraverse |
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The Gentoo Linux project recently reached an agreement with NeTraverse[1] |
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to bring Win4Lin to Gentoo users at a reduced price. Win4Lin lets you run |
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Windows applications under Gentoo Linux at native speeds and can help |
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bridge the gap between the stability of Linux and the vast number of |
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Windows applications. |
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1. http://www.netraverse.com |
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Gentoo users who purchase the Gentoo Edition[2] of Win4Lin enjoy a $10 |
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discount off the regular $89.99 price. Additionally, each purchase helps |
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support further development of Gentoo Linux. There is also a 30-day trial |
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version of Win4Lin available in the Portage tree. |
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2. http://www.netraverse.com/gentoo |
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Gentoo Linux 1.4 Update |
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We reported[3] back in January that Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc3 was due to be |
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released on January 14th, based on the timeline laid out by the |
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newly-adopted Formal Release Process[4]. Obviously, this release has yet |
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to make it out the door and users and developers alike have increasingly |
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complained about the recurring delays, stale Portage tree and general |
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confusion that seems to surround the release process. Fortunately, with |
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the recent appointment[5] of Brad Cowen as the Gentoo Release Coordinator, |
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the 1.4 release process seems to have regained some of its lost momentum. |
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Brad recently updated the Gentoo developer team regarding the status of |
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the next release candidate, 1.4_rc3: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20021230-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20021230-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect6 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030210-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 |
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I just wanted to take a moment and let everyone know where we stand as far |
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as a release goes. Plans are to release an official RC3 on Thursday the |
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27th. This rc will include stages from the sparc, x86, and ppc teams. The |
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x86 port will be a limited release meaning a single "one size fits all" |
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compiled set of stages and no GRP will be packaged. |
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Brad went on to say that, after the rc3 release, he plans to adhere |
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closely to the formal release process. This also means that, post rc3, the |
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Portage tree will be unfrozen for a period of 2 weeks or so where |
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developers will be able to migrate masked packages over to an unmasked |
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state. |
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Pictures of FOSDEM |
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As reported earlier[6], Gentoo Linux was at FOSDEM and, by all accounts, |
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the event was a success. As with LinuxWorld in New York, many of the |
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attendees were previously unfamiliar with Gentoo Linux, so this was a |
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great opportunity to help spread the word about Gentoo Linux in Europe and |
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also meet lots of other free software developers. Daniel Robbins also had |
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the opportunity to speak with Richard Stallman at length, where they |
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discussed...free software, of course :). Here are some photos of the event |
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for those who were unable to attend in person. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030210-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect2 |
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Figure 1.1: Jack Morgan, Verwilst and Popsickle at Fosdem -- or is this a |
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Coke commercial? |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/gwn/20030224_fosdem_6.jpg |
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Figure 1.2: Wout Mertens and Daniel Robbins discover a quantum singularity |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/gwn/20030224_fosdem_3.jpg |
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2. Gentoo Security |
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Summary |
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* GLSA: webmin |
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* GLSA: openssl |
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* GLSA: bitchx |
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* GLSA: mod_php |
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* GLSA: nethack |
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* GLSA: w3m |
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* GLSA: syslinux |
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* GLSA: mailman |
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* New Security Bug Reports |
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GLSA: webmin |
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Webmin contain a vulnerability which could permit unauthenticated access. |
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No exploits in the wild have been reported. |
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* Severity: Critical - Remote Access with Administrative Privileges |
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* Packages Affected: app-admin/webmin versions prior to webmin-1.070 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u webmin, emerge clean. |
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* Advisory[7] |
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7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2 |
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GLSA: openssl |
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OpenSSL may permit an attacker, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack |
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and measuring the relative times for rejection of modified cipher texts, |
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to determine which error condition (padding or verification) caused the |
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modified texts to be rejected. This information is adequate to initiate an |
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adaptive attack which may result in exposure of the plaintext. The attack |
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has been demonstrated in principle. |
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* Severity: Critical - Remote Encryption Compromise |
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* Packages Affected: dev-libs/openssl versions prior to openssl-0.96i or |
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openssl-0.9.7a |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u openssl, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[8] |
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* Advisory[9] |
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8. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36946 |
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9. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030219.txt |
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GLSA: bitchx |
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Bitchx may be caused to segfault with a malformed packet, exposing a |
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denial-of-service vulnerability. |
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* Severity: Moderate - Remote DOS for non-critical service. |
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* Packages Affected: net-irc/bitchx versions prior to bitchx-1.0.19-r4 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u bitchx, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[10] |
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* Advisory[11] |
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10. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36768 |
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11. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?|=bugtrac&m=104554352513997&w=2 |
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GLSA: mod_php |
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PHP 4.3.0 introduced a bug which prevents the cgi-security options |
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'--enable-force-cgi-redirect' and 'cgi.force_redirect'. This could permit |
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an attacker to gain access to the server file system using the web |
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server's privileges on systems that use the PHP CGI module. |
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* Severity: High - Remote Exposure of Filesystem |
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* Packages Affected: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.0 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u mod_php, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[12] |
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* Advisory[13] |
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12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36530 |
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13. http://www.php.net/release_4_3_1.php |
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GLSA: nethack |
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Nethack contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may permit elevation |
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of the player's privileges to that of the game's uid. An exploit has been |
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published. The primary use of this exploit would be to modify the high |
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score and character files. However, any privilege elevation is a security |
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fault, and could be dangerous if nethack's uid has additional permissions. |
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* Severity: Low - Privilege Elevation to A Game |
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* Packages Affected: app-games/nethack versions prior to nethack-3.4.0-r6 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u nethack, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[14] |
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* Advisory[15] |
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14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36310 |
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15. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?|=bugtrac&m=104489201032144&w=2 |
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GLSA: w3m |
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The w3m browser (a text-based browser sometimes used within emacs) fails |
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to properly escape img tags in html. This vulnerability could be exploited |
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by a carefully crafted web page to access files on the local machine. |
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* Severity: High - Remote Exposure of Filesystem |
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* Packages Affected: net-www/w3m versions prior to w3m-0.3.2.2 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u w3m, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[16] |
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16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36308 |
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GLSA: syslinux |
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The syslinux bootloader exposes several security flaws when run with root |
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privileges. The code has been modified to use the mtools package for |
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accessing the disk. Syslinux should not be run with setuid. |
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* Severity: High - Root Privilege Exposure. |
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* Packages Affected: sys-apps/syslinux versions prior to syslinux-2.02 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u syslinux, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[17] |
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17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36308 |
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GLSA: mailman |
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The default error page in the mailman list server web interface exposes a |
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cross-site scripting vulnerability that could permit remote execution of |
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code using the server's privilege level. |
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* Severity: High - Remote Execution of Code. |
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* Packages Affected: net-mail/mailman versions prior to mailman-2.1.1 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u mailman, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[18] |
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* Advisory[19] |
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18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36306 |
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19. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?|=bugtrac&m=104342745916111&w=2 |
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New Security Bug Reports |
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The following new security bugs were posted this week: |
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* sys-apps/acupsd[20] |
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* app-admin/webmin[21] |
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* net-misc/vnc[22] |
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20. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16002 |
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21. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16140 |
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22. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16148 |
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3. Featured Developer of the Week |
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John P. Davis |
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John P. Davis[23], this week's featured developer, is Senior |
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Developer/Coordinator for the Gentoo Linux Documentation team and the |
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administrator of Gentoo's Bugzilla[24] system. John, who started off by |
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writing the Gentoo Linux Printing HOWTO[25], coordinates developers and |
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translators on documentation and hacks on the Bugzilla source to make it |
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as functional as possible. He takes pride in making the Bugzilla system as |
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useful as possible to users and devs, and is amazed at how the |
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documentation team is shaping up. For now Gentoo is the only OSS project |
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John has worked on, but he hopes to change that in the future. |
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23. zhen@g.o |
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24. http://bugs.gentoo.org/ |
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25. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml |
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John has an Athlon XP workstation running RAID0 and an Athlon server which |
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hosts uberdavis.com[26], his playpen. (currently undergoing renovations) |
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He uses Enlightenment with an Aqua theme, Sylheed for mail, and likes |
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iconv, iptables, grep, sed, the GIMP, and nmap. During the day John |
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studies computer science at Mount Union College in Alliance, OH, as well |
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as working at his college's help desk. He enjoys spending time with his |
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girlfriend Mary, drinking Bawls, mountain biking, skiing, scuba diving, as |
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well as college life in general. |
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26. http://www.uberdavis.com/ |
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4. Heard In The Community |
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Web Forums |
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Mother Tongue Campaigning |
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The message is simple: First you need to achieve critical mass by posting |
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into a thread that registers how many people would be interested in a |
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separate forum conducted in their own language, then the FAQ and a few |
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other documents need translation, a moderator or two needs to volunteer, |
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and if sufficiently convincing evidence for a lively community has built |
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up, just watch that admin machine go. The Italians were off to a quick |
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start last week and are gaining momentum, but the Japanese community isn't |
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anywhere near critical mass and needs some serious campaigning before a |
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Japanese language forum can be set up. Lack of interest is unlikely, but a |
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lot of the guys on the #gentoo-jp IRC channel don't seem to have a forum |
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ID yet... |
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* Japanese Gentoo user[27] |
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* italian forum[28] |
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27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27856 |
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28. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36148 |
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Emulating the Unspeakable |
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The gamers were the first class of users to discuss which emulator or |
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virtual machine wins the Windows look-a-like contest, but running |
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commercial Windows applications in Linux has become a widespread pattern |
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since the more serious desktop publishing crowd has made inroads into Open |
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Source operating systems, while requiring the use of professional software |
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from vendors who so far have bluntly refused to code for Linux. It's not |
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as if there was a lack of choice in terms of tools to do so, between Wine |
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and Plex86 or Bochs (fresh version 2.0.2 released just a week ago) on the |
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free-of-charge side of things, and the more powerful commercial |
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equivalents Crossover, WineX, Win4Lin and VMware on their flipside, the |
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only remaining problem is to pick one. Flame wars of the past used erupt |
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over whether one should do that or not, but for some time the debate has |
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been centered on a more pragmatic question: how to do it most efficiently. |
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The forums reflect all this and more, including Netraverse, the company |
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behind Win4Lin, stepping forward with a special Gentooified build at a |
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significant markdown... |
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* WIN4LIN[29] |
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* Codeweaver's Crossover Plugin and Gentoo[30] |
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* running photoshop[31] |
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* MS Office 2000, wine and Gentoo[32] |
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29. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5357 |
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30. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27213 |
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31. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36077 |
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32. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33700 |
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Yet Another Architecture: Gentoo on MIPS |
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Last week the usually rather calm Alternate Architectures forum saw an |
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influx of people who reported about Gentoo Linux on SGI Indy and Indigo2. |
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About two months into the latest initiative to port Gentoo to MIPS |
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machines, successful installations so far include R4400 and R5000 driven |
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models. If you own an Elan or Extreme or maybe an O2 and wonder what else |
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than Irix you can run on it, join the Indy posse on their new IRC channel, |
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#gentoo-mips on irc.freenode.net, and in one or both of these threads (top |
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for evangelism, bottom for caveats): |
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* #gentoo-mips[33] |
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* mips gentoo[34] |
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33. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30744 |
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34. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13391 |
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gentoo-user |
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Hardware Issues |
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Combining components from leaking capaciters to hot CPUs often makes it |
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hard to diagnose hardware problems. Sipping coffee, closing your eyes and |
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seeing the faulty component is a great method, although it may not work |
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for non Jedi Masters. Bruno Lustosa has been suffering from suspicious |
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failed compiles in a number of threads[35]. Is it the bios? Memory? CPU? |
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Evil Kernel? After many supportive suggestions, Bruno appears on the verge |
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of victory. Ernie Shroder, in particular, reminded[36] us of a great |
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article[37] by the man himself, Dr. Daniel Robbins. The article makes a |
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worth-while read as Robbins takes us through the ins and outs of |
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diagnosing CPU and RAM problems on a linux system. |
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35. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104526737724625&w=2 |
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36. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104543869708161&w=2 |
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37. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw1/ |
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RedHatism |
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Upon asking about kivo, of all things, the tool epm was brought up[38]. |
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EPM is available as an ebuild (sys-apps/epm) with the description: rpm |
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workalike for Gentoo Linux. This is meant to provide for easier |
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transistion from a Red Hat system, allowing Red Hatters to feel at home by |
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typing 'epm -qf `which kivio'. |
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38. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104577066204654&w=2 |
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More RedHatism |
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An extremely grueling discussion took place involving the Gentoo init |
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system. Remarkably, the details of Gentoo's system versus other SysV |
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implementations hardly surfaced. What was at stake was Phil Barnet's |
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apparent demand[39] for "abstraction" scripts, in particular the 'service' |
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script, available in other distributions. The counter point expressed |
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typical Gentoo mannerism, offered in one of Andrew Dacey's many |
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rebuttals[40], "The whole point of Gentoo is to be configurable, almost |
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nothing is forced onto the user. With this in mind, no abstraction layer |
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from another OS or distro should be included by default, no matter how |
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common that OS or distro is". Suggestions for ebuilds were offerend as the |
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debate waged on. |
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39. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104557854014805&w=2 |
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40. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104571371827939&w=2 |
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5. Gentoo International |
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Regional Gentoo User Meetings in Europe |
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The Viennese Gentooists have agreed on a date and a venue: Tuesday, 4 |
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March 2003, 19:00 onwards at the Siebensternbrau[41], Siebensterngasse |
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19 in 1070 Wien. If you're free and in the area that day and would like to |
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join them, announce your intentions with a reply to this thread in the |
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forums[42] for a headcount. Meanwhile, users from Northern Germany are |
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looking into opportunities for a meeting this week in or around Hamburg, |
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but the details didn't make it in time for this newsletter. They, too, |
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have a thread in the forums[43] to coordinate the exact date and venue. |
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41. http://www.blues.at/noframes/karten/7stern.htm |
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42. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=9161 |
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43. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36825 |
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Svenska Gentoo IRC Hemsida |
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http://gentoo.linux.se[44] is the shiny new address for the Swedish Gentoo |
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web presence, so far "only" a web appendix to the notorious IRC channel. |
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It includes the channel statistics, some user profiles of a few IRC |
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regulars, and a pastebot for uploading a quick config file or error |
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message from a borked ebuild, and generating a URL for it to be pasted |
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into the #gentoo-se channel on irc.freenode.net. |
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44. http://gentoo.linux.se |
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Italian Documentation Taskforce |
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While his compatriots are busy campaigning for an Italian forum, Marco |
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Mascherpa has set up a mailing list for Italian translators to join in the |
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effort of going through the entire pile of Gentoo documentation and |
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creating new or embellishing existing Italian versions. If your Italian is |
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up to the task and you would like to help, send an email to Marco[45] |
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today. |
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45. m.mascherpa@g.o |
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6. Portage Watch |
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The following stable packages were added to portage this week |
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Because of the pending release of 1.4_final, the Portage tree is currently |
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frozen. As such, no new stable packages were introduced to Portage this |
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week |
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Updates to notable packages |
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* sys-apps/portage - portage-2.0.47-r2.ebuild; |
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* gnome-base/gnome - gnome-2.2-r2.ebuild; |
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* sys-kernel/* - aa-sources-2.4.21_pre4-r3.ebuild; |
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development-sources-2.5.60-r2.ebuild; |
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development-sources-2.5.61-r1.ebuild; development-sources-2.5.61.ebuild; |
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development-sources-2.5.62.ebuild; gs-sources-2.4.21_pre4.ebuild; |
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hppa-sources-2.4.20_p27.ebuild; lolo-sources-2.4.20.2_pre2.ebuild; |
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redhat-sources-2.4.18.24.8.0.ebuild; |
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* dev-db/mysql - mysql-4.0.10.ebuild; |
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* dev-php/php - php-4.3.1.ebuild; |
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* sys-devel/perl - perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild; |
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7. Bugzilla |
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Summary |
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* Statistics |
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* Closed Bug Ranking |
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* New Bug Rankings |
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|
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Statistics |
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|
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[46]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted |
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in: |
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|
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* 294 new bugs this week |
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* 336 bugs closed or resolved this week |
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* 8 previously closed bugs were reopened this week. |
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* 1796 total bugs currently marked 'new' |
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* 558 total bugs curently assigned to developers |
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|
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There are currently 2411 bugs open in bugzilla. Of these: 46 are labelled |
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'blocker', 82 are labelled 'critical', and 171 are labelled 'major'. |
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|
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46. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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|
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Closed Bug Rankings |
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|
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are: |
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* Nicholas Jones[47], with 29 closed bugs[48] |
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* Martin Schlemmer[49], with 18 closed bugs[50] |
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* The Gnome Team[51], with 17 closed bugs[52] |
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* Nick Hadaway[53], with 13 closed bugs[54] |
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|
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47. carpaski@g.o |
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48. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch |
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field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&assi |
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gned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org |
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49. azarah@g.o |
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50. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch |
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field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&assi |
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gned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
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51. gnome@g.o |
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52. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch |
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field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&assi |
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gned_to=gnome%40gentoo.org |
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53. raker@g.o |
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54. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch |
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field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&assi |
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gned_to=raker%40gentoo.org |
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|
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New Bug Rankings |
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|
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs this |
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week are: |
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|
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* Nick Hadaway[55], with 20 new bugs[56] |
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* The Gnome Team[57], with 18 new bugs[58] |
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* Nicholas Jones[59], with 15 new bugs[60] |
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* Martin Schlemmer[61], with 14 new bugs[62] |
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* George Shapovalov[63], with 11 new bugs[64] |
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|
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55. raker@g.o |
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56. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
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ssigned_to=raker%40gentoo.org |
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57. gnome@g.o |
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58. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
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ssigned_to=gnome%40gentoo.org |
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59. carpaski@g.o |
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60. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
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ssigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org |
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61. azarah@g.o |
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62. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
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ssigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
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63. george@g.o |
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64. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-15&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
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ssigned_to=george%40gentoo.org |
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|
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================== |
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8. Tips and Tricks |
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================== |
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|
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall |
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|
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As Gentoo's userbase grows, a common complaint is the slowdown of its |
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primary mirrors. Many people in the community have responded, adding more |
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mirrors to help distribute the load. So where do you find these mirrors? |
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One way is to look on the website at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml. The other (easier) way is to |
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use the handy mirrorselect tool. MirrorSelect is a simple ncurses |
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interface that allows you to select which mirror(s) you want to use for |
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your machine. |
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|
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MirrorSelect is available in Portage, so a simple emerge is all that's |
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necessary to install it. |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Code Listing 8.1: | |
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| Installing MirrorSelect | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| | |
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|# emerge mirrorselect | |
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| | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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|
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|
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To use MirrorSelect, simply run mirrorselect at a terminal prompt and then |
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select your preferred mirror(s). |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Code Listing 8.1: | |
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| Using MirrorSelect | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| | |
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|# mirrorselect | |
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| | |
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|
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Figure 8.1: Using MirrorSelect |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/gwn/20030224_mirrorselect.jpg |
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|
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When you're done selecting mirrors, select OK, and your /etc/make.conf |
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will be updated with your new mirrors. |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Code Listing 8.1: | |
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|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
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| | |
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|Selected: ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo | |
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| http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/gentoo | |
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| Mirrors set successfully | |
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| | |
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9. Moves, Adds and Changes |
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|
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Moves |
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|
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
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|
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* none this week |
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|
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Adds |
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|
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo team: |
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|
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* Robert Coie (rac) -- perl, bughunting |
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* James Boddington (Aiken) -- Gentoo/SPARC, Gentoo/ARM |
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* Jon Ellis (jje) -- music stuffs |
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* Alastair Tse (liquidx) -- python, GNOME, Gentoo/ARM |
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* Ken Nowack (antifa) -- Gentoo Documentation |
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|
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Changes |
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|
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project. |
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|
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* none this week |
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10. Contribute to GWN |
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|
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Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an |
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email[65]. |
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|
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65. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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|
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11. GWN Feedback |
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================ |
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|
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Please send us your feedback[66] and help make GWN better. |
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|
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66. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation |
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