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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 10th, 2003. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Summary |
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* Gentoo Linux at FOSDEM |
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* New Release Manager for 1.4 |
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* Icons for Gentoo Linux |
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Gentoo Linux at FOSDEM |
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Gentoo Linux was present at this weekend's FOSDEM[1], a meeting of |
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developers of Open Source software. Taking place in Brussels, Belgium, |
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this year's FOSDEM drew developers from many of the largest Open Source |
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projects, including KDE, GNOME, PostgreSQL, iptables and others. Daniel |
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Robbins was also present representing the Gentoo Linux project. |
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1. http://fosdem.org/ |
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New Release Manager for 1.4 |
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Brad Cowan (bcowan) was recently appointed as the Gentoo Release |
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Coordinator and tasked with getting Gentoo Linux 1.4, as well as future |
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versions of Gentoo Linux, out the door. So far, Brad has been busy |
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finalizing the list of packages for the 1.4 Gentoo Reference Platform, as |
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well as coordinating efforts among the various development managers to |
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determine what needs to be finished before 1.4 can be officially released. |
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Icons for Gentoo Linux |
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Originally reported in last week's Heard In The Community[2] section, the |
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Gentoo Icon Set[3] has continued to grow and improve to the point where |
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the full set is now featured[4] on the main Gentoo.org web site. |
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Currently, with over 160 icons available and more being added each week, |
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this icon set offers users a comprehensive way to customize their Gentoo |
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Linux systems. |
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2. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030203-newsletter.xml#doc_chap4 |
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3. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31958 |
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4. http://gentoo.org/main/en/icons.xml |
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2. Gentoo Security |
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Summary |
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* GLSA: bladeenc |
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* GLSA: qt-dcgui |
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* GLSA: slocate |
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* GLSA: Mail-SpamAssassin |
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* New Security Bug Reports |
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GLSA: bladeenc |
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The bladeenc MPR encoder contains a signed integer offset that may be |
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spoofed by a carefully crafted wave file to execute arbitrary code. An |
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exploit has been demonstrated. |
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* Severity: Moderate - arbitrary code execution mitigated by requirement |
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for user participation. |
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* Packages Affected: media-sound/bladeenc prior to bladeenc-0.94.2-r1 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u bladeenc, emerge clean |
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* GLSA Announcement[5] |
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* Advisory[6] |
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5. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33887 |
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6. http://www.pivx.com/luigi/adv/blade942-adv.txt |
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GLSA: qt-dcgui |
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The qt-dcgui DirectConnect client has a major vulnerability in the way it |
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parses directory names. Remote attackers could use this flaw to download |
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files that are not explicitly shared. |
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* Severity: High - Remote read access to files. |
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* Packages Affected: net-p2p/qt-dcgui prior to qt-dcgui-0.2.4 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u qt-dcgui, emerge clean |
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* GLSA Announcement[7] |
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* Advisory[8] |
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7. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33692 |
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8. http://dc.ketelhot.de/pipermail/dc/2003-January/000094.html |
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GLSA: slocate |
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The slocate file search utility contains a buffer overflow vulnerability |
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that could permit users to gain higher access privileges on the system. An |
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exploit has been demonstrated. |
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* Severity: High - Privilege elevataion. |
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* Packages Affected: sys-apps/slocate prior to slocate-2.7 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u slocate, emerge clean |
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* GLSA Announcement[9] |
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* Advisory[10] |
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9. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33321 |
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10. http://www.usg.org.uk/advisories/2003.001.txt |
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GLSA: Mail-SpamAssassin |
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The popular SpamAssassin utility is subject to an exploit using escaped |
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'.' characters to provoke a modification of the stack pointer. This could |
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permit a carefully crafted email to execute arbitrary code on the system. |
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* Severity: Critical - Remote execution of arbitrary code. |
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* Packages Affected: dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin prior to |
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Mail-SpamAssassin-2.44 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u Mail-SpamAssassin, emerge |
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clean |
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* GLSA Announcement[11] |
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* Advisory[12] |
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11. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33319 |
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12. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?|=bugtraq&m=104342896818777&w=2 |
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New Security Bug Reports |
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The following new bug report have been submitted to the bugzilla database |
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this week: |
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* net-mail/mailman[13] |
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13. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14844 |
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3. Featured Developer of the Week |
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Brandon Low |
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This week we're featuring Brandon Low[14], maintainer of the |
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gentoo-sources kernel and the kernel eclass system used to create kernel |
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source ebuilds. As many of you know, the gentoo-sources are made by |
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applying various patches to vanilla sources (like the ones you find at |
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http://www.kernel.org); Brandon's job is to take the various fixes, |
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performance enhancements, and hardware support patches recommended by |
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Michael J. Cohen[15], Gentoo's resident kernel colonel, requested by |
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users, or found by himself to be suitable, and to 'patch-monkey' them all |
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together, making adjustments to ensure that the various patches work |
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together in order to get a working kernel. Before being put in |
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gentoo-sources, changes are often tested in lolo-sources, which is first |
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patched with a bunch of updates then slowly culled until it's released as |
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gentoo-sources. Brandon's kernels always contain documentation in a |
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patches.txt.gz file that is put in the documentation directory of the |
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kernel sources, but since the information often isn't as complete with |
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lolo-sources, he says that the best way to learn about a kernel patchset |
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is to watch as the patches are applied during the merge process. The |
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current lolo-sources are based on the Con Kolivas patchset, with the |
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addition of Gentoo-specific stuff as well as the iptables base and |
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optimization pachsets. Like Nicholas Jones[16](who actually started using |
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Gentoo and helping out with it on his suggestion), Brandon got his start |
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as a Gentoo developer hanging out in IRC and on Bugzilla making ebuilds |
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and assisting with bugs. His cool head and tendency to know when a patch |
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would be too much trouble was what gave him the final word on |
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gentoo-sources. A keen ebuilder, Brandon continues to make ebuilds for |
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applications that he needs or wants that aren't in the Portage tree. |
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14. lostlogic@g.o |
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15. mjc@g.o |
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16. carpaski@g.o |
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A student of computer engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, |
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Brandon also works as the general technology specialist at CopyTec[17] - |
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it's no wonder he has trouble balancing the remaining time between Gentoo |
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and his girlfriend. Brandon has two machines, lost and found: lost is an |
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Athlon XP workstation, while found is a headless Athlon T-Bird |
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WWW/mail/DNS server. Here's a long litany of the apps he likes to run on |
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his workstation: Gaim, Enlightenment, Eterm, Xchat, XMMS, giFT, Midnight |
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Commander, Mozilla, gkrellm2, lm_sensors, mutt, screen, pork, and bash. In |
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Real Life, Brandon likes to swim, play GameCube, and rollerblade. |
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17. http://www.copytecinc.com |
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4. Heard In The Community |
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Web Forums |
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What's In A Framebuffer? |
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Let's call it the Framebuffer Awareness Week. An extraordinary interest in |
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the possibilities (and limitations) of framebuffer consoles, using it in X |
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or in its stead, for TV-out to the big screen, and other tidbits of |
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information has emerged in an unusual density: |
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* What exactally can i do with the framebuffer[18] |
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* Framebuffer resolution[19] |
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* Framebuffer console on the Intel 810[20] |
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* How to get xdirectfb working[21] |
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18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31562 |
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19. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33841 |
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20. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33745 |
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21. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34174 |
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Fund Raising Ideas |
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The forums are notorious for posters throwing tantrums at the installation |
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process or application oddities, but the general mood has always been |
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extremely supportive of Gentoo Linux, its concept and further development. |
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Not astonishing, in this light, that initiatives emerge at regular |
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intervals that try to back up the idealistic support with something more |
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tangible, by raising money for the project as a whole. People are offering |
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money for e-mail-addresses that display their affection for Gentoo, club |
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memberships (Mandrake style) are being discussed, even paying for an |
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overnight ebuild service, in a nutshell: anything that could help to put |
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Gentoo on the next evolutionary stage: |
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* funds via Gentoo email?[22] |
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* yourname@××××××××××.net ?[23] |
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* Gentoo Club[24] |
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* A Gentoo Members Club?[25] |
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22. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15416 |
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23. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34253 |
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24. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15885 |
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25. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=32747 |
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Using phpBB |
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A few threads have dealt with the shortcomings of the software that drives |
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the Forums, phpBB. Its structure sometimes prevents things from being just |
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as powerful as some of the users would like it, but advances are clearly |
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being made. The search function has been modified, searching for all |
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search terms is now the default for both the Search page and the Quick |
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Search text input box, and sometimes things just fall into place with an |
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upgrade to phpBB itself: Posting in Japanese miraculously started to work |
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last week. |
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* Gentoo forum search sucks[26] |
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* Japanese Gentoo user[27] |
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26. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33345 |
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27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27856 |
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What Are Those ._cfg* Files Anyway? |
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One of the most frequently overlooked features of portage, the etc-update |
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command, has equally frequently been dealt with at the forums. It is a |
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better known fact that critical config files are protected from being |
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automatically overwritten during emerge, but before you struggle with |
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manually editing all those files with names starting on ._cfg that keep |
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appearing below the /etc threshold and elsewhere, you may want to have a |
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look at this thread from last week: |
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* Graphical etc-update[28] |
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* "29 config files in /etc need updating" & etc-[29] |
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28. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29045 |
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29. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34377 |
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gentoo-user |
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Installing non ebuild software |
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Contrary to what we'd like to believe, software is still being written on |
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non Gentoo systems and not packaged as an ebuild. Robert Shar asked if |
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there is a standard method to installing programs lacking an ebuild. As |
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the responses rolled in, it became clear that there isn't a 'standard' |
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method of handling non ebuild software, but many clever ways to do it. |
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Collins Richey suggested modifying the configure script[30] to install the |
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software under /opt and Pat Double thought it would be just as painless to |
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create an ebuild[31]. Cal Evans even proposed[32] that a utility to |
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convert an RPM (currently the most popular packaging system) to an ebuild |
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should be written. |
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30. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104440970200488&w=2 |
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31. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104428141230152&w=2 |
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32. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104428476602852&w=2 |
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OOOOoooOOooPPssss |
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A popular thread emerged (pardon the pun) on gentoo-user sharing the |
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classic tales of administrator horror stories. From deleting weeks worth |
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of work[33] to nearly getting fired[34] from the job, the stories within |
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are sure to bring back the nostalgic memories of wishing time was |
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reversible... if only for just one command. There is also a related |
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thread[35] in the forums. Time heals, and posting does too. |
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33. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104457368305798&w=2 |
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34. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104460787113604&w=2 |
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35. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17076&highlight=mistakes |
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Disk Full?!? Quick resolutions |
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To Jorge Almeida's astonishment, his fresh Gentoo system was reporting the |
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disk was full after a KDE 3.1 upgrade. Developer Nick Jones |
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recommended[36] removing all files under /var/tmp/portage, |
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/usr/portage/distfiles, and /usr/portage/packages -- noting that distfiles |
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and packages may contain wanted files that portage would have to download |
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again if they were removed. It was also noted that cleaning out /var/log |
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is another quick way to free space, especially if a log rotator has not |
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been installed. Volker Hemmann let us know that his |
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/var/log/.xsession-errors once grew to a size of 3.7GB! |
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36. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104407708806935&w=2 |
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gentoo-dev |
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Gentoo XML Database. |
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Yannick Koehler started[37] a very interesting thread with "For the fun of |
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it, I created a little tool very custom and untested that will read the the |
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cache files of gentoo and generate on the stdout a valid xml file. [...] |
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What's interesting is that the database is generated from a gentoo system |
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pretty easily because of the presence of the cache. One could easily think |
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about creating a direct ebuilds -> xml db software instead of passing |
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through the cache." Vano D proposed[38] its application "for making a |
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"portage server" serving portage ebuilds and recording the cache |
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information (as in what is installed with what USE flags) for every single |
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client machine having an "account" on the db." |
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37. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6921 |
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38. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6922 |
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Todo/project list for Gentoo. |
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Kashif Shaikh asked[39]: "I've been using Gentoo now for a couple of |
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months, wrote some ebuilds, loved gentoo's simplicity(configuration |
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system), etc. BUT, I would like to get involved more with Gentoo though I |
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don't know where to start or what to improve." John Nilsson briefly |
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answered[40] with "Your todo list is called bugs.gentoo.org[41] =)" and |
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continued with "Seriously what you could do that I would like is a |
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gentoo-user-wiki. For Swedish users take a look at |
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http://www.susning.nu[42] and you'll know what I'm talking about. Is there |
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an English equivalent?" |
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39. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6888 |
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40. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6894 |
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41. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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42. http://www.susning.nu |
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Follow-up: Portage Database Management. |
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Ingo Krabbe started[43] quite a busy thread with his question of wether |
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there were any plans to have Portage use a database in order to improve |
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speed! Some ideas for its application were tossed in, such as John |
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Nilsson's: "This db would have more indepth information of every package, |
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HOWTOS, bugs, discussions all that kind of information you would wan't |
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(mostly just a gentoo specific info text and link to a homepage I suspect, |
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but you COULD add more)." |
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43. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6796 |
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5. Gentoo International |
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Impromptu Gentoo Dev & User Meeting in Barcelona, 12 February 2003 |
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BaSS, one of the Spanish Gentoo developers, is leaving his home town |
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Sevilla for a few days in Barcelona. Perfect occasion to meet him and |
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everybody else who's going to show up at the Sagrada Familia on 12 |
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February, 18:00. In case you don't know who to look out for, he'll wear a |
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black bag with the Gnome and Guadec logos on it... |
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Snapshot from Japan: Gentoo in User Mode Linux on RedHat 8.0 |
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Masanori "Smiley" Omote isn't really what you call a hardened Gentoo user. |
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He's been running RedHat for ages, and doesn't have any immediate plans to |
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give it up. But his friends at the Tokyo Linux User Group had been |
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pestering him so much about the most elegant of penguins, something was |
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bound to happen. As it turned out, something equally elegant: Smiley, |
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looking for a way to run both gcc 2.9x and 3.x on the same machine at the |
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same time, went and installed Gentoo Linux in a virtual machine in User |
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Mode Linux (UML) on his tiny Sony Vaio C1, a subnotebook sporting a |
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Transmeta CPU, 256 MB and - RedHat 8.0. Now, whether this was the right |
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way to go about it, or even the right order in which to put one on top of |
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the other is a matter of debate, but for someone with a RedHat background, |
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his perfectly documented installation manuscript has a reassuringly |
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familiar look... |
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* Gentoo 1.4_rc2 in RedHat 8.0 using UML[44] |
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44. http://www.omote.com/gentoo/install-in-uml.html |
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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-2.0.46-r12.ebuild; |
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* sys-devel/gcc - gcc-3.2.2.ebuild; |
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* x11-base/xfree - xfree-4.2.99.4.ebuild; |
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* gnome-base/gnome - gnome-2.2.ebuild; gnome-2.2_rc2-r99.ebuild; |
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gnome-2.2_rc2.ebuild; |
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* sys-kernel/* - aa-sources-2.4.21_pre4-r1.ebuild; |
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ac-sources-2.4.21_pre3-r5.ebuild; ac-sources-2.4.21_pre4-r1.ebuild; |
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ac-sources-2.4.21_pre4-r2.ebuild; development-sources-2.5.59-r7.ebuild; |
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development-sources-2.5.59-r8.ebuild; linux-headers-2.4.20.ebuild; |
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ppc-sources-benh-2.4.20-r5.ebuild; ppc-sources-crypto-2.4.20.ebuild; |
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sparc-sources-2.4.20-r3.ebuild; usermode-sources-2.4.19-r48.ebuild; |
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xfs-sources-2.4.20_pre6.ebuild; |
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New USE variables |
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* none this week |
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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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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[45]) 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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* 251 new bugs this week |
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* 1601 total bugs currently marked 'new' |
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* 577 total bugs curently assigned to developers |
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* 52 bugs that were previously closed have been reopened. |
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There are currently 2230 bugs open in bugzilla. Of these: 44 are labelled |
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'blocker', 77 are labelled 'critical', and 151 are labelled 'major'. |
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45. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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Closed Bug Rankings |
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are: |
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* Nicholas Jones[46], with 27 closed bugs[47] |
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* Nick Hadaway[48], with 26 closed bugs[49] |
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* The KDE Team[50], with 24 closed bugs[51] |
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* Matthew Turk[52], with 19 closed bugs[53] |
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* Martin Schlemmer[54], with 17 closed bugs[55] |
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46. carpaski@g.o |
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47. |
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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=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&reso |
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lution=TEST-REQUEST&assigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org |
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48. raker@g.o |
477 |
49. |
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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=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&reso |
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lution=TEST-REQUEST&assigned_to=raker%40gentoo.org |
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50. kde@g.o |
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51. |
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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=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&reso |
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lution=TEST-REQUEST&assigned_to=kde%40gentoo.org |
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52. satai@g.o |
487 |
53. |
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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=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&reso |
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lution=TEST-REQUEST&assigned_to=satai%40gentoo.org |
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54. azarah@g.o |
492 |
55. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch |
494 |
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&resolution=FIXED&reso |
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lution=TEST-REQUEST&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
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|
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New Bug Rankings |
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---------------- |
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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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* Martin Schlemmer[56], with 24 new bugs[57] |
504 |
* The KDE Team[58], with 16 new bugs[59] |
505 |
* Nick Hadaway[60], with 16 new bugs[61] |
506 |
* Ryan Phillips[62], with 16 new bugs[63] |
507 |
|
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56. azarah@g.o |
509 |
57. |
510 |
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
512 |
ssigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
513 |
58. kde@g.o |
514 |
59. |
515 |
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
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tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
517 |
ssigned_to=kde%40gentoo.org |
518 |
60. raker@g.o |
519 |
61. |
520 |
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
521 |
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
522 |
ssigned_to=raker%40gentoo.org |
523 |
62. rphillips@g.o |
524 |
63. |
525 |
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s |
526 |
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-02-01&chfieldto=Now&=&a |
527 |
ssigned_to=rphillips%40gentoo.org |
528 |
|
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================== |
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8. Tips and Tricks |
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================== |
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|
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See which USE variables affect a package during an emerge |
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|
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One of the most-often requested features in Portage is the ability to |
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quickly and easily see what effect USE variables have during the emerge |
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process. The release Portage 2.0.46-r12 makes this feature available. |
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|
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To display USE variable effects, use the -v option: |
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| Code Listing 8.1: | |
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| Display USE variable effects with the -v option | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| | |
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|#emerge -vp exim | |
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| | |
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|These are the packages that I would merge, in order: | |
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| | |
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|Calculating dependencies ...done! | |
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|[ebuild U ] net-mail/exim-4.12 [4.10] -tcpd +ssl -postgres +mysql | |
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| | |
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|
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9. Moves, Adds and Changes |
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========================== |
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|
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Moves |
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----- |
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|
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
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|
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* Ric Messier (kilroy) |
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* Maarten Thibaut (murphy) |
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|
566 |
Adds |
567 |
---- |
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|
569 |
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo team: |
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|
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* Zach Welch (zwelch) -- Gentoo/ARM, distcc |
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|
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Changes |
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------- |
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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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* Brad Cowan (bcowan) -- Gentoo Linux Release Coordinator |
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* Jack Morgan (jmorgan) -- Gentoo Events Coordinator |
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|
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===================== |
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10. Contribute to GWN |
583 |
===================== |
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|
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Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an |
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email[64]. |
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|
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64. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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|
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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[65] and help make GWN better. |
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|
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65. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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|
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12. Other Languages |
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The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages: |
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* Dutch |
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* English |
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* German |
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* French |
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* Japanese |
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* Italian |
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* Portuguese (Brazil) |
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* Portuguese (Portugal) |
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* Spanish |
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Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> - Editor |
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AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com> - Contributor |
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Brice Burgess <nesta@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Contributor |
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Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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David Narayan <david@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Contributor |
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Peter Sharp <mail@××××××××××××××.net> - Contributor |
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Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Tom Van Laerhoven <tom.vanlaerhoven@××××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Roel Adriaans <roel@××××××××.cx> - Dutch Translation |
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Peter Dijkstra <phj.dijkstra@××××.nl> - Dutch Translation |
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Nicolas Ledez <nicolas.ledez@××××.fr> - French Translation |
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Guillaume Plessis <gui@×××××××××.com> - French Translation |
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Eric St-Georges <thevedge@××××××××.net> - French Translation |
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John Berry <anfini@××××.fr> - French Translation |
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Martin Prieto <riverdale@×××××××××.org> - French Translation |
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Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o> - German Translation |
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Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@g.o> - German Translation |
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Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@g.o> - German Translation |
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Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation |
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Marco Mascherpa <mush@××××××.net> - Italian Translation |
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Claudio Merloni <paper@×××××××.it> - Italian Translation |
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Daniel Ketel <kage-chan@g.o> - Japanese Translation |
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Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@×××.com> - Japanese Translation |
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Andy Hunne <andy@×××××××××.com> - Japanese Translation |
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Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation |
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Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@××××××××××××××××.uk> - Japanese Translation |
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Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@××××××.br> - Portuguese (Brazil) |
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Translation |
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Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@××××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
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Translation |
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Gustavo Felisberto <gustavo@××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
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Translation |
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Ricardo Jorge Louro <rjlouro@×××××××.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
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Translation |
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Lanark <lanark@××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation |
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Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Spanish Translation |
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Julio Castillo <julio@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
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Sergio Gómez <s3r@××××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation |
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Pablo Pita Leira <pablo.leira@×××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
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Carlos Castillo <carlos@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
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Tirant <tirant@×××××.net> - Spanish Translation |
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Jaime Freire <jfreire@××.com> - Spanish Translation |
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Lucas Sallovitz <krusty_ar@×××××.com> - Spanish Translation |