Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 9 April 2007
26 year old Camille Huot is one of our French developers. He lives and works in Paris, France, but was born in La Ciotat, which is near Marseilles in southern France. Camille lives together with his brother, who has recently finished school and started working as a C++ developer. Cam studied at the University of Montpellier, and graduated with a Bachelor in 'Telecommunications and Network'. Later on he completed his studies with a Masters degree. He was employed some time back as Linux Systems Administrator, but got promoted recently to Oracle DB Administration. He's currently in charge of ~150 servers at the Wanadoo hosting platform. Camille learned Linux (Red Hat and Debian) at school. Later on, he switched to FreeBSD, which he kept for some years, but finally 'had' to come back to Linux due to a DSL driver. Gérald Fenoy convinced Camille to try Gentoo, and he liked it :-) Within Gentoo, Camille leads the French translation team. They currently have a well-oiled team, and translate quite a few documents. He's also interested in joining the Gentoo/FreeBSD team. Camille was recruited in January '04 by Xavier Neys, who has recently turned over the torch of French Lead translator to Camille. When Camille fires up his desktop, he uses: openbox, psi, opera, urxvt, claws-mail, mplayer, gvim and some Google apps. Removing Specific Dependencies Have you ever installed something with a lot of dependencies? Have you ever wanted to remove that package along with all of its dependencies? Instinct may tell us that we can run emerge --depclean, however there is a different, perhaps better way. Lets say that we want to compare OpenOffice.org and koffice. Our plan is to install both, try them out, and remove one of them. First, do:
This will ensure that we do not record any packages that are being updated. Proceed to install and try the programs. Once you chose which one you want to keep, simply do the following:
This week's Tips and Tricks was inspired by the following posting on the forums: 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:
Asterisk: Two SIP Denial of Service vulnerabilities Asterisk is vulnerable to two Denial of Service issues in the SIP channel. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in unauthenticated remote root code execution. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement OpenAFS is subject to a design flaw that could allow privilege escalation on the client. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities OpenPBS contains unspecified vulnerabilities which may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement The zziplib library contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to user-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Evince: Stack overflow in included gv code Evince improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement libwpd: Multiple vulnerabilities libwpd is vulnerable to several heap overflows and an integer overflow. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 01 April 2007 and 08 April 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10000 currently open bugs: 14 are labeled 'blocker', 97 are labeled 'critical', and 353 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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