Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Kerin Millar <kerin@×××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Root exploit in virtually all 2.4 kernels ... fixed
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:28:23
Message-Id: 1070576944.3382.3.camel@kerfy.r2r.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Root exploit in virtually all 2.4 kernels ... fixed by Marius Mauch
1 On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 22:09, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gaming-sources will do fine. I presume
3 > > that it's been masked because they are somewhat deprecated. Probably
4 > > better not to use -u in this case ;)
5 >
6 > It won't work, gaming-sources has KEYWORDS="-* ~x86" and -* overrides
7 > all other settings. It's still under investigation if that was a mistake
8
9 In fact, yes it will work ... -* merely inidcates that it is not safe
10 for arches other than x86. ~x86 is completely exempt:
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12 root@kerfy kerin # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv
13 gaming-sources
14 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
15
16 Calculating dependencies ...done!
17 [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gaming-sources-2.4.20-r6 -build -build
18
19
20 > or was intentional. But seeing that it's still on 2.4.20 I'd recommend
21 > to switch to another kernel if you don't rely on a special feature only
22 > found in gaming-sources.
23
24 That I would unreservedly agree with.
25
26 --Kerin Francis Millar

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