May 2006 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

Re: Security warning for kernel upgraders
by Mark Rosenstand 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 14:56 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote: > What's the upstream status of this? If there's no chance this patch ever > gets accepted, I'd vote to revert it. It's an unnatural choice for CRUX > to ship modified core utilities, especially since it's easy enough to > create an alias, use a modified port I agree, but when it comes to security, behaving like upstream does comes in second. > or - in this particular case - do as the kernel guys say and > uncompress/compile the kernel as non-root user. Mind you, this applies to all tarballs, not only the ones from kernel.org. If this is reverted, at least pkgmk should use --no-same-permissions --no-same-owner when extracing sources. Also, if it's that insane to extract and compile as root, why is it still the official way to build all software on CRUX? ;) > However, if this is going to be integrated by the GNU tar devs at some > point in time, I think it's valid to keep it in. So what's the status > here? I personally doubt it, they probably consider it a feature over a bug (since the default is to not retain permissions, the insane behaviour is only applied if you run tar as root.)

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Re: ps2 mouse on 2.2
by Mark Rosenstand 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 18:15 -0700, tom(a)tommiller.us wrote: > So maybe the nub of the issue is why can Debian autoconfigure > the mouse but "X -configure" on Crix 2.2 returns an error message > about not being able to configure the mouse (I posted the exact > language of the error message earlier in this thread)? Because the Debian kernel was configured by people who know how to do that in order to get most things working for most people. This is unlike CRUX where the user is expected to know what he needs or wants. If you want things working but aren't very good at making them work yourself, you should really reconsider your distro choice.

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Re: ImageMagick out of date. Att Simone Rota, sip
by Danny 30 May '06

30 May '06

Brett Goulder wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:14:07 +1000 > Danny <d.rawlins(a)datafast.net.au> wrote: > > >> version 6.2.7-7 does not exist 6.2.7-8 does. also whats up with the >> funky source url? it be nice if one could use the sourceforge site to >> download from dl.sourceforge.net >> > > Please read the FAQ, you should contact the maintainers of the ports directly > or file a bug report on crux.nu if it is a core/opt package. > > Yes but you try and decypher this email address. # Packager: danm, maol, jaeger # Maintainer: Simone Rota, sip at crux dot nu I'd suggest everyone to use <romster at shortcircuit dot net dot au> as that is simple to turn back where Simone Rota's email address is unstandable, likw what uses underscores, dots etc before the @ char?

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[d.rawlins@datafast.net.au: flex out of date]
by James Mills 30 May '06

30 May '06

Just forwarding to crux(a)lists.crux.nu on behalf of Danny (Romster). cheers James -- -- -"Problems are Solved by Method" - - James Mills <prologic(a)shortcircuit.net.au> - HomePage: http://shortcircuit.net.au/~prologic/ - Phone: +61732166379 - Mobile: +61404270962 - Skype: therealprologic - MSN: prologic(a)shortcircuit.net.au - ICQ: 98888663 - IRC: irc://shortcircuit.net.au#se Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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ImageMagick out of date. Att Simone Rota, sip
by Danny 30 May '06

30 May '06

version 6.2.7-7 does not exist 6.2.7-8 does. also whats up with the funky source url? it be nice if one could use the sourceforge site to download from dl.sourceforge.net

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flex out of date
by Danny 30 May '06

30 May '06

Out of date port, flex is now version 2.5.33 also, the site url is missing a f in flex.sourceforge.net and the only way i managed to get flex to download is to use http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2 sourceforge is anoying with broken urls.

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Re: ps2 mouse on 2.2
by Pavel Samek 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi! Try Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Pavel. On Mon, 29 May 2006, Tom Miller wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > EndSection > > > I am missing something basic. :-) > Could somebody with clue please tell me > what's wrong? > > Thanks, > > Tom >

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Site of Russian community
by Mikhail Pozdnyakov 29 May '06

29 May '06

We replaced our site on a new server and new domain. Now site "CRUX on Russian" placed on the www.clc-ru.org. New reference to the handbook-2.2: http://www.clc-ru.org/docs/handbook-2.2 Ho can change information about us on the site http://www.crux.nu (in the Links and Documentation)?

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PT mirror created
by Marco Ferra 28 May '06

28 May '06

Hi, for the first time I don't know if this is the right mailing list to say this but I belong to a LUG (Linux Users Group) from an University in Portugal (ESTS - Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal) and I have created a mirror for CRUX. HTTP: http://gul.est.ips.pt/ftp/crux FTP: ftp://gul.est.ips.pt/crux I think this is the first portuguese mirror. If so, and if you find it useful, consider adding it to the list in: http://crux.nu/Main/Download Sincere regards Marco Ferra

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make 3.81
by Johannes Winkelmann 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, We've just updated core/make to 3.81, an update which is supposed to fix a number of problems. Since not all changes are backward compatible, projects depending on a particular (miss-)feature of former make releases may break. Chances are you won't see this; we've tested core and opt with it, and hit no problems. I have heard from one single package so far which fails to compile with 3.81 (the u-boot bootloader), however if you experience problems, please contact the upstream developer, or submit a bug in our bug tracking system. Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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