[gentoo-soc] Fwd: Google Summer of Code summary week 06

[Alice Ferrazzi]

Summary:

* Created UUID client identification (needed for dealing with multiple request)
* Made function for standardize the subrocess commands. (needed for
dealing with multiple request)
* Working with getting the linux kernel version from configuration file.
* Unifying the patch and configuration file send function  (needed for
dealing with multiple request)
* Discussion with mentor about what we need:
     - Availability and replicability of downloading kernel sources. [needed]
     - Represent same kernel sources as the client kernel source (use
flags for now and in the future user added patches) [needed]
     - Support multiple request at the same time. [needed]
     - Modularity for adding VM machine or container support. (in the future)

* Made function for download and get old kernel sources and install
sources under the designated temporary folder.  (needed for dealing
with multiple request)
* Create overlay for keeping old gentoo-sources ebuild where we will
keep retrocompatibility  (needed for give kernel sources
retrocompatibility)
* Fixed git clone of the gentoo-sources overlay under a temporary
directory (Fix)
* Fixed download directories (Fix)

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day 27

`What was my plan for today?`

* testing and improving elivepatch

`What i did today?`

* Fixed git clone of the gentoo-sources overlay under a temporary directory
* Fixed download directories
* Tested elivepatch

`what i will do next time?`

* testing and improving elivepatch

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day 26


`What was my plan for today?`

* testing and improving elivepatch

`What i did today?`

After discussion with mentor.
I need:
* Availability and replicability of downloading kernel sources. [needed]
* Represent same kernel sources as the client kernel source (use flags
for now and in the future user added patches) [needed]
* Support multiple request at the same time. [needed]
* Modularity for adding VM machine or container support. (in the future)

Create overlay for keeping old gentoo-sources ebuild where we will
keep retrocompatibility
for old kernels:
https://github.com/aliceinwire/gentoo-sources_overlay

Made function for download and get old kernel sources and install sources
under the designated temporary folder.


`what i will do next time?`

* Going on improving elivepatch

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day 25

`What was my plan for today?`

* Cleaning code
* testing and improving elivepatch

`What i did today?`

As discussed with my mentor I worked on unifying the patch and
configuration file
RESTful api call.
And made function for standardize the subrocess commands.

meeting with mentor.

the problem on
https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/blob/master/kpatch-build/kpatch-build#L537
Need investigating

`what i will do next time?`

* testing it and improving elivepatch
* working on kpatch and investigating
https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/blob/master/kpatch-build/kpatch-build#L537

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day 24


`What was my plan for today?`

* Cleaning code
* testing it
* Go on with programming and starting implementing the CVE

`What i did today?`

* Working with getting the linux kernel version from configuration
* file
* Working with parsing CVE repository

I could implement to get the linux kernel version from the
configuration file,
and I'm working on parsing the CVE repository.
Would also be a nice idea to work with the kpatch scripts for making
it Gentoo
compatible.
But I also got into one problem, that is we need to find a way to
download
old gentoo-sources ebuild for building old kernel,
where in the server there isn't the needed version of kernel sources.
This depend from how much back compatibility we want to give.
And with old gentoo-sources we cannot assure that is working.
Because old gentoo-sources was using different versions of gentoo
repository,
eclass.
So is a problem to discuss in the next days.

`what i will do next time?`

* work on the CVE repository
* testing it

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day 23

`What was my plan for today?`

* Testing elivepatch
* Cleaning code

`What i did today?`

* commented some code part
* First draft of UserID working

elivepatch server will generate a UUID for a client connection,
and it will assign the UUID for each client.
The livepatch and configs files will be generated in differents
folders for each client request and returned using the UUID.
As now is just a draft but for how I could test it looks
working.

`what i will do next time?`
* Cleaning code
* testing it
* Go on with programming and starting implementing the CVE

-- 
Thanks,
Alice Ferrazzi

Gentoo Kernel Project Leader
Mail: Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@g.o>
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