Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 20 November 2006The Gentoo infrastructure team have rolled out the new Bugzilla for two to four weeks of testing. They hope to have the new Bugzilla up and running in time for Christmas. Important improvements include:
You can help test by using the new Bugzilla when you're searching for existing bugs. In lieu of pointing your browser to http://bugs.gentoo.org, use http://bugstest.gentoo.org, instead.
If you find any bugs, please report them in the production Bugzilla, assigned to infra-bugs@gentoo.org, with 'bugstest' in the summary. Robin Johnson fears there may be some UTF-8 issues, so help from non-ASCII Gentoo-ers is particularly needed. Thanks to Mike Doty, Robin Johnson, Lance Albertson, Ned Ludd, Jeff Forman, and Corey Shields for all their hard work. Thanks to GNi for hardware and colocation services to make it all run. For more information, please read Robin's original gentoo-dev list announcement. Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin In a horrifying wildcard accident, James Colby deleted the entire contents of his /sbin directory. Quickwittedly, he did basic damage control by copying the contents of /sbin from a stage 3 tarball to his own denuded /sbin. He asked if he needed to do an emerge world to restore his /sbin to its former state. Both Geistteufel and Bo Ørsted Andresen suggest ways to determine which packages actually had files residing in /sbin and then re-emerging them. Geistteufel suggested running equery b /sbin as root. This would yield a list of each package with a file residing in /sbin. Each of these packages would then be re-emerged. Bo Ørsted Andresen's solution automated the process:
Responders agreed that re-emerging world would be excessive. Using LINGUAS on a per package basis like with USE Fernando Canizo has set both the English and Spanish LINGUAS flags in his system (LINGUAS="en es"). However, he'd prefer to decide on a package-by-package basis which language to use, similar to setting a flag in his /etc/portage/package.use file. Bo Ørsted Andresen pointed out that Fernando could use the IUSE flags linguas_es and linguas_en like any other per-package flag in /etc/portage/package.use. This is because the LINGUAS flags were USE_EXPANDED to those IUSE flags anyway. He also provided a pointer to the relevant section of the devmanual. SC06 -- check out SiCortex Donnie Berkholz invited all attendees at the recently-held SuperComputing 06 conference to visit the booth of SiCortex. SiCortex is developing two MIPS cluster products, one with 5,800 nodes and the other with 650 nodes. The clusters will run Gentoo. Brian D. Ropers-Huilman reported that he'd already stopped by their booth and was impressed by an 8 TF cluster that consumed a mere 18KW. However, he wasn't sure when they were entering production nor if they were really using Gentoo. Joel Martin, who works at SiCortex as well as volunteering for Gentoo as a developer, provided more information on their offerings. Within a few months, SiCortex will be offering a 5,832 processor (972 6-core nodes) with 8GB RAM-per-node at less than the US$2,000,000 price point. And it will definitely run Gentoo. For more information, Joe pointed readers to SiCortex's whitepaper collection. The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
OpenSSH: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities Several Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenSSH. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement GraphicsMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows GraphicsMagick improperly handles PALM and DCM images, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement RPM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when opening specially crafted packages. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash applications that handle untrusted images. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities Flaws in WordPress allow a Denial of Service, the disclosure of user metadata and the overwriting of restricted files. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement This is a list of packages that have been announced to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 12 November 2006 and 19 November 2006, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10911 currently open bugs: 27 are labeled 'blocker', 102 are labeled 'critical', and 479 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
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