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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Root exploit in virtually all 2.4 kernels ... fixed
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:57:14
Message-Id: 20031204235707.08933acc.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Root exploit in virtually all 2.4 kernels ... fixed by Kerin Millar
1 On 12/04/03 Kerin Millar wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 22:09, Marius Mauch wrote:
4 > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gaming-sources will do fine. I
5 > > > presume that it's been masked because they are somewhat
6 > > > deprecated. Probably better not to use -u in this case ;)
7 > >
8 > > It won't work, gaming-sources has KEYWORDS="-* ~x86" and -*
9 > > overrides all other settings. It's still under investigation if that
10 > > was a mistake
11 >
12 > In fact, yes it will work ... -* merely inidcates that it is not safe
13 > for arches other than x86. ~x86 is completely exempt:
14 >
15 > root@kerfy kerin # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv
16 > gaming-sources
17 >
18 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
19 >
20 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
21 > [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gaming-sources-2.4.20-r6 -build -build
22
23 Weird, I could swear that it didn't work two days ago :-/
24
25 Marius
26
27 --
28 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
29
30 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
31 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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Re: [gentoo-server] Root exploit in virtually all 2.4 kernels ... fixed Kerin Millar <kerin@×××××××××××××××.net>