Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 30 July 2007Recently x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers has been updated to include all available driver versions, including the one found in x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, as posted by Doug Goldstein on Gentoo Planet. The nvidia-legacy-drivers package has been removed in favor of the 71xx driver version now available in nvidia-drivers. In accordance with this change, Josh Saddler has updated the NVIDIA guide. While the NVIDIA drivers ebuild will perform some auto detection to ensure that the right driver for your card gets installed, you may still need to mask later versions to get the one that you need. Josh Saddler has updated the guide with regards to this change, which can also be found in NVIDIA's hardware compatibility list. Portato: A Portage GUI Necoro announced a GTK+ based GUI for Portage: Portato in the forums (albeit in German). This GUI was designed to help users when the CLI isn't sufficient. For example, when emerging a package with lots of dependencies and USE flags. This is made easier to do with a graphical front-end with the use of an Emerge Queue, which updates automatically and shows dependencies. Necoro stated that Portato wasn't meant as a replacement for the CLI tools but is more comfortable in various situations. To get Portato, execute the following commands:
Planet Summer of Code 07 Steve Dibb announced the Gentoo Planet Summer of Code 2007 site is up and running. Like the other two Planets Gentoo hosts, the feeds are updated hourly. If you are mentored by Gentoo for this year's Summer of Code and interested in having your own weblog, please send your info to Steve Dibb. This years GUADEC, the GNOME Users' And Developers European Conference, was held at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, in Birmingham, England, from Sunday 15th July, until Saturday 21st of July 2007. The talks were divided in different categories, focusing on the future of GNOME, the preview and demonstration of existing technologies, as well as brainstorming sessions. Of the topics to be heard, there were several great discussions including the GNOME Online Desktop, PyroDesktop, and interesting movement in the GTK+ area. Commandline.org (28, July 2007) Search for Gentoo on many popular online Linux publications and it is easy to find drama. Perhaps that is why this piece was a refreshing change. In a recent post on Commandline.org, editor Zeth shared his views on the SFC and Gentoo. "The Software Freedom Conservancy has offered to take care of all this non-technical stuff (as covered by Grant Goodyear's blog post .) The SFC would take legal liability and abstract away the paper work such as doing the accounts, claiming taxes back, interacting with government and so on. Gentoo would be able leave at any time in the future, no strings attached. The Software Freedom Conservancy ... already performs this service for Samba, Wine, and some other projects. To me this sounds like the ideal solution for Gentoo as well. Gentoo is run by a meritocratic community of developers. These developers are some of the most highly skilled geeks in the world, and spend much of their free time writing the ebuilds, fixing the bugs, compiling the LiveCDs, developing Gentoo admin tools and so on. They have been selectively bred for that and are great at that, so let them get on with it. So let the SFC manage the paperwork, and let the superdevelopers get on with what they do. As for the flamewars, it is all white heat. There are only three ways to judge the health of Gentoo: ebuilds, ebuilds and ebuilds." 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:
MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability has been discovered in NVClock, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement GIMP: Multiple integer overflows Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GIMP, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability has been discovered in Festival, allowing for a local privilege escalation. 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 remote code execution with root privileges by unauthenticated users. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC media player, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Fail2ban is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A vulnerability has been discovered in tcpdump, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code, possibly with root privileges. 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 22 July 2007 and 29 July 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 9893 currently open bugs: 11 are labeled 'blocker', 110 are labeled 'critical', and 354 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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