Jornal Semanal Gentoo: 09 de Setembro de 2003
1.
Notícias Gentoo
Resumo
Segundo "dia do bug" Gentoo foi um sucesso
Outro grande sucesso, participantes do "dia do bug" nesta semana, realizado em 6 de Setembro, acabaram com um total de 124 bugs. Apenas no seu segundo mês, o dia do bug atraiu um total de 171 caçadores de bugs, com um recorde de 143 pessoas simultaneamente no #gentoo-bugs, ultrapassando o dia do bug inalgural no mês passado por uma larga margem (130 participaram no último mês). Dentre eles, estavam muitas pessoas querendo ensinar seus conhecimentos e muitos querendo aprender. Os usuários interagiram com os desenvolvedores do Gentoo de uma maneira única, e alguns novos desenvolvedores em potencial foram descobertos. Nós gostariamos de agradecer a todos que apareceram e fizeram o dia do bug Gentoo deste mês um grande sucesso, e esperamos ver você no próximo mês: Mesmo bug horário, mesmo bug canal!
2.
Segurança Gentoo
Resumo
GLSA: pam_smb
Quote from advisory:
"Se uma senha longa é informada, isto pode causar um buffer overflow que pode ser explorado para executar código arbitráriocom os privilégios do processo que chama os serviços PAM."
- Gravidade: Alta - execução de código remoto.
- Pacotes Afetados: <pam_smb-2.0.0_rc5
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge pam_smb; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: vmware
Quote from advisory:
O GLSA de 200308-03 estava errado quando informou que vmware-workstation-4.0.1-5289 consertaria os problemas descritos no advisory.
- Gravidade: Alta - acesso local total ao host.
- Pacotes Afetados: <vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592>; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: horde
Quote from advisory:
"Um atacante pode enviar um email para a vítima que anteriormente usou do HORDE MTA para obrigá-la a visitar um website. O website no problema faz um log de todos os acessos e descreve a origem particular de cada vítima."
- Gravidade: Alta - roubo de sessão.
- Pacotes Afetados: <horde-2.2.4_rc2
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge horde; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: eroaster
Versões antigas do eroaster permitiam que usuários locais sobre escrevessem arquivos arbitrários por um ataque de symlink attack em um arquivo temporário que é usado como um lockfile.
- Gravidade: Média - ataque de symlink.
- Pacotes Afetados: <eroaster-2.1.0-r2
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge eroaster; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: phpwebsite
o phpwebsite contém uma vulnerabilidade de sql injection no módulo do calendário que permite que o atacante execute pesquisas sql. Adicionalmente, o phpwebsite é vulnerável ao XSS, maiores informações podem ser encontradas no advisory completo.
- Gravidade: Alta - Vulnerabilidades de SQL Injection, DoS e XSS.
- Pacotes Afetados: <phpwebsite-0.9.3_p1
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge phpwebsite; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: mindi
O Mindi cria arquivos no /tmp que podem permitir a um usuário local sobre escrever arquivos arbitrários.
- Gravidade: Média - criação de arquivos insegura.
- Pacotes Afetados: <mindi-0.86
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge mindi; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: gallery
Quote from advisory:
"Uma vulnerabilidade cross-site scripting (XSS) no arquivo search.php do Gallery 1.1 ao 1.3.4 permite que atacantes remotos insiram scrips web arbitrários pelo parâmetro searchstring."
- Gravidade: Alta - cross site scripting.
- Pacotes Afetados: <gallery-1.3.4_p1
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge gallery; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
GLSA: atari800
O atari800 contém um buffer overflow que pode ser usado por um atacante para ganhar privilégios de root. Apesar do pacote atari800 no Gentoo não instalar nenhum arquivo suid root nós recomendamos aos nossos usuários que façam a atualização.
- Gravidade: Baixa - buffer overflow.
- Pacotes Afetados: <atari800-1.3.0-r1
- Correção: emerge sync; emerge atari800; emerge clean
- GLSA Announcement
Novos bugs de segurança reportados
Os seguintes bugs de segurança foram postados na última semana:
3.
User stories
User stories is on hiatus this week. Remember to send us your bizarre, hilarious, or incredible Gentoo stories so they can be featured here!
4.
Featured Developer of the Week
Thomas Pedley
Figure 4.1: Thomas Pedley |
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This week's featured dev is Thomas
Pedley (shallax), who is singularly responsible for the
most ironic of Gentoo ports: Gentoox (Gentoo for the
XBox). Thomas is the only official developer for the project, but he
claims this reduces the number of developer conflicts. His
responsibilities run the gamut through kernel hacking, user support,
distro maintenance, building binary packages, dealing with legal
issues, and maintaining the gentoox web site. Appropriately, gentoox.shallax.com and forums.shallax.com were
recently moved to an XBox host.
Thomas' work came to the attention of the Gentoo community with his
post
to the forums in March. Although other people had managed to get
Gentoo up and running on a modded XBox, Thomas was the first to put
together a formal distribution and documentation - which has greatly
facilitated the growth of Gentoo on the heavily subsidized Microsoft
gaming platform. The idea of using the XBox as a cheap multimedia PC
has been enthralling Linux fans for months. Our subject's proudest
accomplishment came with the succesful hacking of the XBox's Cromwell
bios to permit loading of a larger initrd file, and the subsequent
cleaning up of the boot process in Gentoox. Thomas now runs two
XBoxen: the continuously up web server and another that is,
tragically, periodically taken down to play games with.
In addition to the XBoxen, Thomas runs a 1.8 GHz
P4 desktop, and a 533 MHz Celeron server. He likes KDE, but uses the
lower footprint WindowMaker when on an XBox. He is a bit of a
messaging addict, launching Gaim and XChat when he first boots (or
Trillian and mIRC if booting into the other OS). He first heard of
Gentoo back in 2001, but was daunted by its learning curve until 2002
and completed the transition to Gentoo for his servers this year. His
favorite applications are gcc and emerge, and claims to prefer
pico/nano as an editor. He does a lot of his development work using
bash scripting, and chose to implement the Gentoox patch system (which
works alongside portage for XBox implementations) in bash.
Thomas recently completed 6th Form at the Simon Balle school, and
will start Computer Science studies at the University of Hertfordshire
in a few weeks. He also works at a local supermarket in order to
generate the funds he needs for acquiring XBoxen and maintaining his
beloved Peugot 205. He lives in Hertfordshire, England, just outside
London.
When asked for a favourite quote, Thomas offered a Beastie Boy lyric:
"DIY, that means do it yourself - I don't sit around waiting for
someone's help, I don't sit back and say good enough, I keep on
striving, reinventing.", which seems quite appropriate. He also
observed that "Gentoo is the most solid distribution I have had the
pleasure of using, and the user base is friendly and willing to help
each other out." He also wanted to take an opportunity to thank all
those who have helped out with the Gentoox project - interested
readers are directed to the Gentoox README to hear about their
contributions.
5.
Heard in the Community
Web Forums
On Your Marks, Get Set - Gentoo on the G5 and the Pegasos PPC
The excitement was almost palpable. When oubipaws casually posted that he had his new G5 Macintosh converted to run Gentoo, and reported compile times less than 15 minutes for KDE, even the most hardened Gentoo PPC developers flocked to the forum to check what was going on. By the time of this writing, it's still somewhat unconfirmed, but what if he was indeed the first to have Gentoo Linux on Apple's new flagship? Be that as it may, the G5 thread almost buried the earlier good news about the Pegasos PPC now being supported, this one definitely and doubtlessly. Being one of the rare Gentoo devs with a Pegasos G3/600 MHz at home, dholm has succesfully Gentooified that particular non-Macintosh, yet PowerPC-based platform. The next LiveCD will contain an official build, but dholm's kernel is ready for testing by anyone w
ho'd like to try their hands. In the same thread, PPC-lead-developer pvdabeel has announced that Gentoo will run on the AmigaOne, too.
Making an Effort
Besides browsing the overview of individual forums, people tend to look for topics via the "posts since last visit" link or input text strings in the quick search field related to whatever problem they have. One of the less popular features of the phpBB forum interface is a link located to the top right of the page that simply says: "View unanswered posts". At currently almost 10,000 of those, among a lot of garbage there's a much larger amount of newbie questions that went unanswered, sometimes because the title wasn't too clear, the problem too obscure, or maybe not very interesting to the regulars on board. Gentoomen, have you helped a newbie today?
gentoo-user
$100 UPSes for Linux
For those of us that absolutely NEED to run Gentoo--electric service or not--an uninterruptable power supply could be just what you're looking for.
Gentoo user Chip Marshall started the $100 Linux UPS Challenge to see if anyone knew of Linux-compatible UPSes that could be bought for roughly $100.
Read on
for all the great suggestions.
qpkg Tips
Ever wondered which ebuild supplied a certain file on your hard drive? This thread from the -user list week offered up a quick and cool tip on qpkg to do just that.
Check it out
here
.
gentoo-dev
Gentoo Games.
Who said there weren't any games on linux? Well we definately prove them wrong here at Gentoo, with the number of games packages in app-games now outnumbering those in dev-perl! Break them up a little you say? Well you're too late! Mike Frysinger is a
step ahead of you! Have a look to see where the discussion went.
Portage is your friend.
Although some of us are more than happy to just type in emerge myprogram, some people actually like to know how these things work. Grant Goodyear is one such person, who decided that a little walkthrough would be appropriate. Have a look
here.
6.
Gentoo Internacional
Japão: Log Gentoo Navi
Mamoru Komachi, mais conhecido como Usata, um desenvolvedor Gentoo e
mantenedor do pacote pTex, começou um weblog que mantém registro de novos ebuilds e contém notícias e dicas
voltadas para as necessidades dos gentooístas japoneses. Alguns dos desenvolvimentos recentes já figuram
proeminentemente na sua página, incluíndo o novo método im-ja de Botond Botyanszki ou a nova variante GTK2 do
Sylpheed, por exemplo. Melhor de tudo: o blog é aberto para a participação da audiência, qualquer um desejando
adicionar uma ou outra nota sobre o Gentoo é bem vindo ao logbook. Verifique a página do Usata - somente se o seu japonês estiver atualizado, com
certeza ...
7.
Portage Watch
The following stable packages were updated or added to portage in the last two weeks:
- app-arch/file-roller: archive manager for GNOME
- app-cdr/cdlabelgen: CD cover, tray card and envelope generator
- app-crypt/gnupg: The GNU Privacy Guard, a GPL pgp replacement
- app-doc/abs-guide: An advanced reference and a tutorial on bash shell scripting.
- app-doc/howto-text: The LDP howtos, text format.
- app-editors/gedit: A text editor for the Gnome2 desktop
- app-editors/ne: ne is the nice editor, easy to use for the beginner and powerful for the wizard
- app-editors/vim: Vi IMproved!
- app-emacs/mew: great MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs
- app-emacs/riece: Riece is a redisgn of Liece IRC client
- app-emacs/wl: a mail/news reader supporting IMAP4rev1 for emacsen
- app-emulation/epsxe: ePSXe Playstation Emulator
- app-emulation/uae: An amiga emulator
- app-emulation/wine: free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix - CVS snapshot
- app-emulation/xmame: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for X11
- app-emulation/xmess: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for X11
- app-games/americas-army: America's Army: Operations - military simulations by the U.S. Army to provide civilians with insights on soldiering
- app-games/armagetron: armagetron: 3d tron lightcycles, just like the movie
- app-games/asc: turn based strategy game designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series
- app-games/atlas: Chart Program to use with Flightgear Flight Simulator
- app-games/attal: turn-based strategy game project
- app-games/duke3d: port of the original DukeNukem 3D
- app-games/excido: A fast paced action game
- app-games/fortune-mod: The notorious fortune program
- app-games/fortune-mod-bofh-excuses: Excuses from Bastard Operator from Hell
- app-games/fortune-mod-calvin: Quotes from Calvin and Hobbes Comic Books
- app-games/fortune-mod-dubya: Quotes from George W. Bush
- app-games/fortune-mod-futurama: Quotes from the TV-Series -Futurama-
- app-games/fortune-mod-gentoo-dev: Fortune database of #gentoo-dev quotes
- app-games/fortune-mod-hitchhiker: Quotes from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- app-games/fortune-mod-homer: Quotes from Homer Simpson
- app-games/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes: Extra fortune cookies for fortune
- app-games/fortune-mod-kernelcookies: A collection of funny lines from the Linux kernel
- app-games/fortune-mod-osfortune: Open sources fortune file
- app-games/fortune-mod-simpsons-chalkboard: Quotes from Bart Simpson's Chalkboard, shown at the opening of each Simpsons episode
- app-games/fortune-mod-smac: Quotes from the Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire tech tree
- app-games/fortune-mod-sp-fortunes: South Park Fortunes
- app-games/fortune-mod-starwars: Quotes from StarWars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi
- app-games/fortune-mod-tao: set of fortunes based on the Tao-Teh-Ching
- app-games/greedy: fun little ncurses puzzle game
- app-games/gtetrinet: Tetrinet Clone for GNOME 2
- app-games/mirrormagic: a game like Deflektor (C 64) or Mindbender (Amiga)
- app-games/monopd: server for atlantik games
- app-games/nwn: Never Winter Nights
- app-games/rocksndiamonds: A Boulderdash clone
- app-games/sirius: A program for playing the game of othello
- app-games/spacehulk: A boardgame in the world of Warhammer 40k
- app-games/torcs: The Open Racing Car Simulator
- app-games/unreal-tournament: Futuristic FPS
- app-games/ut2003: Unreal Tournament 2003 - Sequel to the 1999 Game of the Year multi-player first-person shooter
- app-games/wakkabox: A simple block-pushing game
- app-games/xgalaga: Galaga game clone.
- app-i18n/freewnn: Network-Extensible Kana-to-Kanji Conversion System
- app-i18n/kinput2: A Japanese input server which supports the XIM protocol
- app-i18n/scim: Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is a Input Method (IM) development platform
- app-i18n/scim-chinese: Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) Closed Source Pinyin Input Method
- app-i18n/skk-jisyo-extra: Extra SKK dictionaries in plain text and cdb format
- app-i18n/uim: UIM is a simple, secure and flexible input method library
- app-misc/kdirstat: KDirStat - nice KDE replacement to du command
- app-misc/magicpoint: an X11 based presentation tool
- app-misc/welcome2l: Welcome to Linux, ANSI login logo for Linux
- app-misc/xosview: X11 operating system viewer
- app-office/mdbtools: A set of libraries and utilities for reading Microsoft Access database (MDB) files
- app-office/scribus: Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Layout program for Linux.
- app-sci/bioperl: collection of tools for bioinformatics, genomics and life science research
- app-sci/ksimus: KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automatization and visualization of technical processes.
- app-sci/octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language (MatLab compatible) intended for numerical computations
- app-sci/octave-forge: A collection of custom scripts, functions and extensions for GNU Octave
- app-text/epstool: Creates or extracts preview images in EPS files, fixes bounding boxes,converts to bitmaps.
- app-text/htmldoc: Convert HTML pages into a PDF document
- app-text/tkinfo: Info Browser in TK
- app-text/uudeview: uu, xx, base64, binhex decoder
- dev-cpp/gtkmm: C++ interface for GTK+2
- dev-db/mysql: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server
- dev-db/tora: TOra - Toolkit For Oracle
- dev-dotnet/mono: Mono runtime and class librarier, a C# compiler/interpreter
- dev-dotnet/pnet: Portable .NET runtime, compiler, tools
- dev-games/crystalspace: portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++
- dev-games/crystalspace-cvs: portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++
- dev-java/infobus: InfoBus enables dynamic exchange of data between JavaBeans component architecture.
- dev-java/jad: Jad - the fast JAva Decompiler
- dev-java/jaf: Sun's JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF)
- dev-java/java-config: Utility to change the Java Virtual Machine being used
- dev-java/java-sdk-docs: Javadoc for Java SDK version 1.3.1
- dev-java/javamail: A Java-based framework to build multiplatform mail and messaging applications.
- dev-java/jdbc2-oracle: JDBC Drivers for Oracle
- dev-java/jdbc3-oracle: JDBC 3.0 Drivers for Oracle
- dev-java/jmf: The Java Media Framework API (JMF) enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to Java applications and applets.
- dev-java/jrockit: BEA WebLogic's J2SE Development Kit, version 8.1
- dev-java/jython: Java Python implementation
- dev-java/sun-jdk: Sun's J2SE Development Kit, version 1.4.2
- dev-lang/tolua: a tool that simplifies the integration of C/C++ code with Lua
- dev-libs/atk: Gnome Accessibility Toolkit
- dev-libs/boost: Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
- dev-libs/elfutils: Libraries and utilities to handle compiled objects.
- dev-libs/hdf5: HDF5 is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data.
- dev-libs/libxslt: XSLT libraries and tools
- dev-libs/qsa: QSA
- dev-perl/DB_File: A Berkeley DB Support Perl Module
- dev-perl/Net-SNMP: A SNMP Perl Module
- dev-php/mod_php: Apache module for PHP
- dev-python/4Suite: Python tools for XML processing and object-databases.
- dev-python/gnome-python: gnome-python
- dev-python/pygtk: GTK+2 bindings for Python
- dev-python/pykde: set of Python bindings for the KDE libs
- dev-python/pyorbit: ORBit2 bindings for Python
- dev-python/pyxml: A collection of libraries to process XML with Python.
- dev-util/guile: Scheme interpreter
- gnome-base/ORBit2: ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB
- gnome-base/bonobo-activation: Gnome2 replacement for OAF
- gnome-base/gconf: Gnome Configuration System and Daemon
- gnome-base/gdm: GNOME2 Display Manager
- gnome-base/gnome: Meta package for the GNOME desktop.
- gnome-base/gnome-applets: Applets for the Gnome2 Desktop and Panel
- gnome-base/gnome-desktop: Libraries for the gnome desktop that is not part of the UI
- gnome-base/gnome-mime-data: MIME database for Gnome
- gnome-base/gnome-panel: The Panel for Gnome2
- gnome-base/gnome-session: the Gnome2 session manager
- gnome-base/gnome-vfs: Gnome Virtual Filesystem
- gnome-base/libbonobo: The GNOME CORBA framework
- gnome-base/libbonoboui: User Interface part of Lib bonobo
- gnome-base/libglade: GLADE is a interface builder
- gnome-base/libgnome: Essential Gnome Libraries
- gnome-base/libgnomecanvas: the Gnome 2 Canvas library
- gnome-base/libgnomeprint: Printer handling for Gnome
- gnome-base/libgnomeprintui: user interface libraries for gnome print
- gnome-base/libgnomeui: User interface part of libgnome
- gnome-base/libgtop: library that proivdes top functionality to applications
- gnome-base/librsvg: rendering svg library
- gnome-base/nautilus: A filemanager for the Gnome2 desktop
- gnome-extra/acme: GNOME tool to make use of the multimedia buttons present on most laptops and internet keyboards.
- gnome-extra/gnome-games: Games for the GNOME desktop
- gnome-extra/gnome-media: Multimedia related programs for the Gnome2 desktop
- gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor: Gnome System Monitor
- gnome-extra/yelp: Help browser for Gnome2
- kde-base/kdeadmin: KDE administration tools (user manager, etc.)
- media-fonts/artwiz-fonts: Artwiz Fonts
- media-fonts/kochi-substitute: Kochi Japanese TrueType fonts with Wadalab Fonts einfo "${HOMEPAGE} for details."
- media-fonts/mikachan-font: Mikachan Japanese TrueType fonts
- media-fonts/mplus-fonts: mplus Japanese BDF FONTS
- media-fonts/shinonome: Japanese bitmap fonts for X
- media-gfx/eog: the Eye Of Gnome - Image Viewer and Cataloger for Gnome2
- media-gfx/gliv: An image viewer that uses OpenGL
- media-gfx/gnuplot: Quick and useful plotting program
- media-gfx/gphoto2: free, redistributable digital camera software application
- media-gfx/qiv: Quick Image Viewer
- media-gfx/sane-frontends: Scanner Access Now Easy
- media-libs/fontconfig: A library for configuring and customizing font access.
- media-libs/gst-plugins: Additional plugins for gstreamer - streaming media framework
- media-libs/gstreamer: Streaming media framework
- media-libs/imlib2: Version 2 of an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm
- media-libs/libemf: Library implementation of ECMA-234 API for the generation of enhanced metafiles.
- media-libs/netpbm: A set of utilities for converting to/from the netpbm (and related) formats
- media-libs/xine-lib: Core libraries for Xine movie player
- media-plugins/xmms-crossfade: XMMS Plugin for crossfading, and continuous output.
- media-sound/freqtweak: tool for FFT-based realtime audio spectral manipulation and display
- media-sound/gnomeradio: A GNOME2 radio tuner
- media-sound/streamripper: Extracts and records individual MP3 file tracks from shoutcast streams
- media-tv/nxtvepg: receive and browse free TV programme listings via bttv for tv networks in Europe
- media-video/cinelerra: Cinelerra - Professional Video Editor
- media-video/mjpegtools: Tools for MJPEG video
- media-video/mplayer: Media Player for Linux
- media-video/transcode: video stream processing tool
- media-video/xvattr: X11 XVideo Querying/Setting Tool from Ogle project
- net-analyzer/libnasl: A remote security scanner for Linux (libnasl)
- net-analyzer/nessus: A remote security scanner for Linux
- net-analyzer/nessus-core: A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-core)
- net-analyzer/nessus-libraries: A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-libraries)
- net-analyzer/nessus-plugins: A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-plugins)
- net-analyzer/nmap: utility for network exploration or security auditing
- net-analyzer/snort: Libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger/lightweight IDS
- net-dialup/capi4k-utils: Capi4Linux Utils
- net-dialup/pptpclient: Linux client for PPTP
- net-firewall/shorewall: Full state iptables firewall
- net-fs/ftpfs: A filesystem for mounting FTP volumes
- net-im/centericq: A ncurses ICQ/Yahoo!/MSN/IRC/Jabber Client
- net-im/imcom: Python commandline Jabber Client
- net-im/licq: ICQ Client with v8 support
- net-im/msnlib: A Python MSN messenger protocol library and client
- net-libs/linc: A library to ease the writing of networked applications
- net-mail/evolution: A GNOME groupware application, a Microsoft Outlook workalike
- net-mail/f-prot: Frisk Software's f-prot virus scanner
- net-mail/queue-fix: Qmail Queue Repair Application with support for big-todo
- net-misc/atftp: Advanced TFTP implementation client/server
- net-misc/gyach: GTK+-based Yahoo! chat client
- net-misc/ltsp-core: LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project
- net-misc/pxes: PXES is a package for building thin clients using multiple types of clients
- net-misc/rsync: File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
- net-misc/telnet-bsd: Telnet and telnetd ported from OpenBSD with IPv6 support
- net-misc/tftp-hpa: port of the OpenBSD TFTP server
- net-misc/whois: improved Whois Client
- net-p2p/gnunet: GNUnet is an anonymous, distributed, reputation based network.
- net-p2p/xmule: wxWindows based client for the eDonkey/eMule/lMule network
- net-www/apache: The Apache Web Server
- net-www/mozilla-firebird: The Mozilla Firebird Web Browser
- net-www/opera: Opera web browser.
- net-www/straw: rss news aggregator
- sys-apps/checkpolicy: SELinux policy compiler
- sys-apps/cloop: Compressed filesystem loopback kernel module
- sys-apps/coreutils: Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities (whoami, who,...)
- sys-apps/dd_rescue: similar to dd but can copy from source with errors
- sys-apps/debianutils: A selection of tools from Debian
- sys-apps/hdparm: Utility to change hard drive performance parameters
- sys-apps/policycoreutils: SELinux core utilites
- sys-apps/portage: Portage ports system
- sys-apps/smartmontools: control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.)
- sys-apps/xinetd: Xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd, with advanced features
- sys-apps/xmbmon: Mother Board Monitor Program for X Window System
- sys-cluster/cppvm: CPPVM: A C++ Interface to PVM
- sys-cluster/pvm: PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
- sys-devel/binutils: Tools necessary to build programs
- sys-devel/distcc: a program to distribute compilation of C code across several machines on a network
- sys-devel/gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++ and java compilers
- sys-devel/hardened-gcc: transparent gcc compiler change for PaX/etdyn ASLR w/ propolice/SSP
- sys-devel/prelink: Modifies executables so runtime libraries load faster
- sys-kernel/mips-headers: Linux-Mips CVS headers for MIPS-based machines
- sys-kernel/mm-sources: Full sources for the development linux kernel with Andrew Morton's patchset
- sys-kernel/vanilla-sources: Full sources for the Gentoo Linux kernel
- x11-base/xfree: Xfree86: famous and free X server
- x11-libs/gtk+: Gimp ToolKit +
- x11-libs/libwnck: A window navigation construction kit
- x11-libs/pango: Text rendering and Layout library
- x11-libs/qt: QT
- x11-misc/icebgset: IceWM background editor
- x11-misc/icets: IceWM Theme Editor
- x11-misc/icewm-tools: Convenience package for IceWM control center and tools
- x11-misc/shared-mime-info: The Shared MIME-info Database specification.
- x11-misc/superkaramba: A version of Karamba with extra extensions in-built
- x11-misc/x2vnc: Control a remote computer running VNC from X
- x11-misc/xnview: XnView image viewer/converter
- x11-plugins/wmclockmon: digital clock dockapp with three different styles.
- x11-terms/gnome-terminal: The Gnome Terminal
- x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme: Gnome2 default icon themes
- x11-themes/gnome-themes: A set of gnome2 themes, with sets for users with limited or low vision
- x11-themes/gtk-engines: Theme Engines from GNOME including Pixmap, Metal, Raleigh, Redmond95, Raleigh and Notif
- x11-themes/mandrake-artwork: Mandrake's Galaxy theme for GTK1, GTK2, Metacity and KDE
- x11-themes/thinkeramik: A cool kde style modified from keramik
- x11-wm/fluxspace: Enhancements for workspace management within Fluxbox.
- x11-wm/metacity: Small gtk2 WindowManager
Total categories: 96
Total packages: 5558
8.
Bugzilla
Summary
Statistics
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 29 August 2003 and 04 September 2003, activity
on the site has resulted in:
- 384 new bugs during this period
- 182 bugs closed or resolved during this period
- 8 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 3837 currently open bugs: 94 are labeled 'blocker', 196 are labeled 'critical', and 287 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
New Bug Rankings
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
9.
Tips and Tricks
Using SSH for remote commands
This week's tip shows a less common use of SSH. Most people use SSH to
login to servers or boxes remotely. However, you can also use SSH to issue
commands on remote servers without opening a full login shell.
Note:
To use SSH without having to enter a password all the time, use Keychain.
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To issue commands through SSH, simply type the command after the normal
SSH login information (e.g. ssh user@host command). The following
example shows you how to view log files on a remote web server.
Code Listing 9.1: Viewing an Apache2 access_log |
% ssh david@www.example.com tail /var/log/apache2/access_log
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Alternatively, you could change passwords over SSH (although using public
key authentication with SSH is recommended over passwords).
Code Listing 9.2: Remotely changing a password |
% ssh david@example.com passwd
(current) UNIX password: password
New UNIX password: new_password
Retype new UNIX password: new_password
Changing password for david
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This should get you started with remote command execution. See the SSH
man pages for more options.
10.
Featured Quote/Signature of the Week
Featured Quote/Signature is taking a break this week.
11.
Moves, Adds and Changes
Moves
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
Adds
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
Changes
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux project.
12.
Contribua com o JSG
Interessado em contribuir com o Jornal Semanal Gentoo? Nos envie um email.
13.
Retorno ao JSG
Por favor envie um email (em inglês) para feedback com sua opinião e ajude a fazer este JORNAL melhor.
14.
Informações sobre Inscrição
Para assinar o Jornal Semanal Gentoo, versão em inglês somente, envie um email em branco para Gentoo-gwn-subscribe@Gentoo.org.
Para cancelar a assinatura do Jornal Semanal Gentoo, envie um email em branco para Gentoo-gwn-unsubscribe@Gentoo.org a partir do endereço de email em que está inscrito.
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Outras línguas
O Jornal Semanal Gentoo também está disponível nas seguintes línguas:
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