February 2012 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Going underground, my packages are still maintained
by Nelson Marques 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi all, For quite sometime I've been erasing information about me in several resources, the request to terminate my membership has been heard and I'm no longer a member (a nice protest form against the anti-democratic ego driven concepts of a few). Pascal also kindly removed my blog feeds from the planet by my request. I've un-subscribed all mailing lists except: - opensuse-factory; - opensuse-gnome; All my packages/OBS repos are still going to be maintained, but a huge cleanup is going to happen soon (during the weekend). On the other hand, during the last weeks I've been aqquiring a lot of know-how on Fedora packaging and about Koji, which I now know very well. This to say that soon there will be an increase on contributions from me on Fedora side, mainly for EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), I do have no intention on maintaining Fedora packages besides EPEL. I will also keep some time for giving some love to GNOME:Cinnamon and will later pick up my work on GNOME:Ayatana. So in other words, my demise in openSUSE is 99% complete and people won't have to read/ignore more stupid emails from me, no more nagging, no more nothing. Hopefully I'll see better days in the future... And I get to be around with Sirko :) A very warm and felt 'Thank You' to all who have helped me, mainly to Vincent, Dominique, Marcus (darix), Bjorn, Stephen and many others... -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] /usr/bin/xmlcatalog: No such file or directory
by Ilya Chernykh 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

This is despite libxml2 package is installed. Was this file removed from the package? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] no 'sed' in initrd?
by Per Jessen 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

I found the following while doing/debugging an installation of current Factory: boot/82-remount.sh: line 42: sed: command not found See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747322 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] please fix non PIE setuid binaries
by Ludwig Nussel 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi, The following packages in Factory have setuid binaries that are not compiled with position independent code according to rpmlint. I'd like to make the check (non-position-independent-executable ) fatal on March 1st. I'll also file bugs for the individual packages. chromium cifs-utils dbus-1 eject fuse gnokii i4l-base jfbterm kdebase3 libgnomesu majordomo mc mgetty mtr open-vm-tools opie pcmciautils pdns polkit rp-pppoe scotty sudo su-wrapper thttpd uucp virtualbox vte zypper cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] new rpmlint check for insecure logrotate configs
by Ludwig Nussel 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi, Logrotate 3.8 introduced stricter demands on the ownership of log directories. It refuses to rotate log files in directories that are writable by anyone other than root to avoid e.g. symlink tricks of a compromised account. The correct fix is to change the ownership of log _directories_ to root and also don't allow any group != 0 to write there. It's still ok for log _files_ to be owned and writable by some unprivileged user or group. Bad: drwxrwxr-x 2 foo bar /var/log/foo/ -rw-rw-r-- 2 foo bar /var/log/foo/foo.log Good: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root /var/log/foo/ -rw-rw-r-- 2 foo bar /var/log/foo/foo.log Alternatively if the package in question for whatever reason requires the log directory to be writable by unprivileged users logrotate now also supports a 'su' option. So I've introduced a new rpmlint check in Factory that checks for user owned log directories resp lack of the 'su' option. rpmlint now also complains if the log directory is not packaged as it obviously can't check the permissions then. So please fix your package if you see the 'logrotate-user-writable-log-dir' error in the build log as logrotate won't rotate logs for this package in the future. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] mkinitrd / boot failure
by Robert Kaiser 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi all, I just found out that after updating Factory packages yesterday, my system wouldn't boot. Thankfully I have a copy of the system on my second harddisk and by rewriting the "root" line in GRUB I could boot with the initrd from a day before. The error seems to be in /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-prepare.sh and the thread in http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?p=2442622 tells the details. We should care that a bug is filed and a fix submitted, or a lot of Factory installations will become unusable. Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
by Ilya Chernykh 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

What should I do? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Cinnamon
by Nelson Marques 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

I've issued deletion requests for the cinnamon packages that were in oS:Factory and I've decided not to make it part of the upcoming 12.2. There's no big reason for this except that I feel more confortable this way and I believe that keeping it on a community repository makes it easier to maintain and to experiment. Users who want cinnamon will still be able to use it with openSUSE. Long live GNOME 3.4. -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] New features for 12.2!
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Heya all, Of course we want to tell everyone why they should be excited about the upcoming 12.2 release - you can help us marketeers do that here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features Stay cool! /Jos

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[opensuse-factory] nothing provides freeglut
by Ilya Chernykh 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Is there a substitution? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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