September 2006 - crux-devel

Maintainer application
by Antti Nykänen 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Hello, I'd like to become a CRUX maintainer, and have in fact been already invited by Johannes and Tilman. Many of you know me already, but a reintroduction won't probably hurt. My name is Antti Nykänen, I live in Finland, and I'm currently a student (IT/electronics). I'm in IRC almost 24/7, my nick there is aon. I've been using CRUX for about two years and making ports for a bit less. My current, quite small collection, which is also partly synced to contrib, can be found at http://aon.iki.fi/crux-ports. Besides ports, I believe that I could contribute to other userland development too, since I've done some amount of C/sh code-monkeying :) Thoughts? - Antti -- Antti Nykänen | aon(a)iki.fi | http://aon.iki.fi/

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/bzip2 Url: http://www.bzip.org/1.0.3/bzip2-1.0.3.tar.gz Reason: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.bzip.org' State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/file Url: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.17.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/tcsh Url: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.14.00.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/libcdio Url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/ftp/gnu/libcdio/libcdio-0.76.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/lshw Url: http://ezix.org/software/files/lshw-B.02.08.01.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/rxvt-unicode Url: http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-7.9.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/jfsutils Url: http://jfs.sourceforge.net/project/pub/jfsutils-1.1.10.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/procps Url: http://procps.sourceforge.net/procps-3.2.7.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/alsa-driver Url: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/alsa-lib Url: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.11.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/alsa-oss Url: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/oss-lib/alsa-oss-1.0.11.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/alsa-utils Url: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.11.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/awesfx Url: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.0d.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/wmclock Url: http://www.dockapps.org/download.php/id/328/wmclock-1.0.12.2.tar.gz Reason: curl: (52) Empty reply from server State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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Tasks to look into
by Johannes Winkelmann 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi, Just in case some has an interest to look into those, here are two tasks we should look into at some point in time: Kernel headers: according to [1], 2.6.18 will have a 'make header_install' target, creating linux headers for glibc. cdrkit vs cdrtools: you probably read it, the debian guys have forked cdrtools (second fork of cdrtools after dvdrecord IIRC), and are interested for other distributions to contribute. I don't necessarily think that we have to become involved, but since there have been many patches floating around made by various distros there's a chance this projects unifies some of them. Therefore, it should be interesting to follow this, build test ports etc. Please speak up if you're interested in one of those tasks, otherwise I'll queue them up. Thanks, Johannes References: 1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.general/12684 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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Reorganization, part 2
by Johannes Winkelmann 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

Hey, After some discussion with those involved in server maintenance, I'd like to suggest Simone to be the initial leader/coordinator for the infrastructure team; he has done a lot of work, both on the web components (wiki/bugtracking/svnweb) and general setup. Just to elaborate on that job: it's not meant to give him great power, but to make sure that there's a central person to coordinate changes and take decisions if someone else on the team is uncertain how to do it. It's more of a "coaching" job really. That said, we need coaches for the 'ports' team as well as for the 'core' team. CRUX maintainers, please submit your nominations :-). Thanks for your cooperation, Johannes P.S. http://crux.nu/Main/TeamReorganization contains some more info -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/cmus Url: http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/files/cmus-2.0.3.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'onion.dynserv.net' State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/popa3d Url: http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/popa3d-1.0.2.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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pmwiki exploit
by Till Biedermann 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

Hi there, i just read the following: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1672 For pmwiki there is a simple solution. "register_globals" has to be turned off. Regards Till -- http://www.tbmnet.de ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

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ANN: portverify
by Juergen Daubert 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

Hi all, based on Johannes' ideas and performance specification [1] I've written a simple utility, called portverify, to check CRUX ports for typical errors. It's a shell script which calls gawk with a bunch of small scripts, each of them containing one or more tests. Following test are implemented yet: - port - missing files Pkgfile/.footprint/.md5sum - Pkgfile - existence of name/version/release/source variables - match of portname to name variable - wrong release number - cd/rm command outside the work directory - .footprint - world writable files/directories - junk files like perllocal.pod - invalid directories like /usr/info - invalid users - files not owned by root - SUID/SGID files To use the utility call it with one ore more ports like: portverify /usr/ports/{core,opt}/* All test are categorized into 4 levels, from FATAL to INFO, which can be used to adjust the output of portverify, see the help message for more information. For now portverify is available from a darcs repository [2] or as an CRUX package [3]. To do: - missing stuff from [1] - more test ? - improve shell script - man-page - other ideas ? Contributions and any kind of feedback are highly appreciated. kind regards Jürgen [1] http://crux.nu/Main/WantedTools [2] darcs get http://jue.ods.org/repos/portverify [3] http://jue.ods.org/files/portverify%230.1.2.pkg.tar.gz -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/core/dhcpcd Url: ftp://ftp.phystech.com/pub/dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl4.tar.gz Reason: curl: (56) FTP response reading failed State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/libao Url: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ao/libao-0.8.6.tar.gz Reason: curl: (52) Empty reply from server State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/libgd Url: http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz Reason: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.boutell.com' State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/libvorbis Url: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz Reason: curl: (52) Empty reply from server State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/tetex Url: ftp://dante.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/tetex-src-3… Reason: curl: (67) Access denied: 530 State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/tetex Url: ftp://dante.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/tetex-texmf… Reason: curl: (67) Access denied: 530 State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/tetex Url: ftp://dante.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/tetex-texmf… Reason: curl: (67) Access denied: 530 State: New Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/windowmaker Url: http://windowmaker.info/pub/source/release/WindowMaker-0.92.0.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Port: /home/crux/svn-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.2/opt/xfig Url: http://xfig.org/software/xfig/3.2.5-alpha/xfig.3.2.5-alpha5.full.tar.gz Reason: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'xfig.org' State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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