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On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 11:28 AM Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote: |
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> On January 3, 2020 9:55:31 AM EST, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> >On 1/3/20 9:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> But here we are. Do we make OpenRC Linux-only and steal the fix from |
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> >> systemd? Or pretend to support other operating systems, but leave |
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> >them |
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> >> insecure? |
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> >> |
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> >Or the gripping hand: rewrite opentmpfiles in C, so that it's only as |
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> >insecure as checkpath. |
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> >Every option sucks. I was only trying to point out that vanilla-sources |
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> >gets no security support -- security@ has stated this, but it's on a |
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> >private bug, so I won't quote it -- and the risk is more than academic. |
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> This should be known. Security does not support vanilla-sources. This is one reason vanilla-sources are not stabilized. |
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Packages without security support should be masked. Really I don't |
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see the point of even having this in the repo. |
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I run vanilla sources personally but I just get them from upstream. |
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Makes way more sense than worrying about whether the version in the |
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repo is up to date for the longterm kernel I'm following. People |
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running vanilla sources are probably using out-of-tree modules (like |
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me) and as such are going to have particular requirements around how |
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they're updated. So, Gentoo is adding fairly little value. |
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All they do is download sources anyway, which is trivially done from |
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git more efficiently (or tarballs that are probably easy to obtain |
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just as efficiently). I can see more of the point in the new |
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distribution kernel project which will be turnkey. I can see some of |
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the value in gentoo-sources (particularly as the upstream for the |
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distribution kernels) especially if they're tied to Gentoo-specific |
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bugs. For more general bugs that apply to all distros I really don't |
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see the point in trying to compete with the upstream stable branches |
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(if they're taking forever to merge a patch, chances are there is a |
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reason for it, and I'm skeptical that Gentoo users are special in some |
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way). |
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Is there some reason that we should keep vanilla sources despite not |
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getting security handling? |
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Rich |
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