Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions

[Nicholas Jones]

> 1) The new "spinner" is /very/ cool!

It's been moved to FEATURES="candy"

I was bored while testing NFS locks and whipped that up. Genone has
a multi-character version somewhere. We'll make it prettier later.

I also modified the regular spinner, but nobody watches that one
close enough to actually notice.

--nospinner got updated as well. It now displays 100 updates in a
'.' that gets printed out instead of nothing.


> 2) Documentation is coming alone nicely.
...
> /etc/portage/profiles/virtuals [...]
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> both be the same dir, but don't know whether it's profile or profiles.
> Granted, a typo or changed policy is fine, but without documentation
> confirming one or the other as right, I'm left guessing.

It's singular. I've updated all the references otherwise.
They'll be in CVS before I post this. They are only in the ebuild
as the plural version.

> 3) What about the QA Notices?
> enough of them it'd just be unnecessary noise?

Occasionally someone notices a problem.
Occasionally someone mentions a problem.
Occasionally*Occasionally someone reports an Occasional problem.

It get fixed faster if everyone is yelling for it to stop.
Fixes by annoyance. Cheap, Easy, and Quick.

> What about that security notice I've seen pop up a few times?  Example:
>
> QA Notice: Security risk /usr/bin/crontab. Please consider relinking with
> 'append-ldflags -Wl,-z,now' to fix.

For the full implications you should talk to the security hardened/
security guys. Solar is the one that put that patch up for me to add.
Basically, there is the potential to use a glibc exploit to induce a
race that could allow you to do weird things with libraries and files.


--NJ