March 2008 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

Announce: Firefox 3.0 repo.
by Brett Goulder 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

When the final release of Firefox 3.0 rolls around, my intention is to separate Firefox from Gecko and XUL, by utilising xulrunner as a generic base for Firefox, Thunderbird (eventually, once it hits 3.0 as well, however, Simone Rota (sip) is responsible for Thunderbird) and anything that would normally build against Firefox, such as Kazehakase, Epiphany or Galeon. For those of you wishing to test out Firefox 3.0, I have prepared a repository with a Firefox 3.0 beta 4 port, along with xulrunner. As you can probably guess, you now need xulrunner to build Firefox. However, the glory of this setup is that Firefox builds very fast now, where as xulrunner takes the place Firefox held, taking awhile to build. However, with any luck, updates to the underlying engine will be relatively uncommon, where as fixes for Firefox itself will be more common. The repository to available here: http://www.dcaf-security.org/firefox3-ports/ The repository can be synced via httpup with the attached httpup file. -- ~predatorfreak GnuPG Public key: http://pred.dcaf-security.org/dcafsec-pub-gpgkey.asc

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RE: Install CRUX on an low memory machine
by Dimiter Petrov 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

>> I do have a swap partition, but how do I pass it as a parameter? I tried swap=/dev/sda3, but it didn't work. > swapon ? >From what I understand from the handbook you activate your swap partion *after* you log in. What I need is to specify it *before* I log in. Regards, DP _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx

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RE: Install CRUX on an low memory machine
by Dimiter Petrov 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

> did you make and use a swap partition? a 256MB swap should be perfectly > enough to install CRUX successfuly. Ok, here is what is happening: I type CRUX or press enter at the prompt. Everything is fine until "copying files from squashfs" hangs for a while then fails -- "cp: write errror: No space left on device". Then, after "switching root" appears the message "request_module: runaway loop moprobe binfmt-0000". Then it doesn't do anything. I do have a swap partition, but how do I pass it as a parameter? I tried swap=/dev/sda3, but it didn't work. Regards, DP _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/

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Install CRUX on an low memory machine
by Dimiter Petrov 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hello, I tried to install CRUX on an old computer with only 55Mb of RAM which apparently is not enough. Should I attempt a network install? Is there any way I can get CRUX on this machine? _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008

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Re: /lib/cpp sanity check fail on apache ./configure
by Alan Mizrahi 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

El Jue 13 Mar 2008, Jeff Wiley escribió: > Hi > I am using Crux 2.4 and am tring to hand compile the sources of Apache > 2.2.6. The ./configure does not complete and lists /lib/cpp as failing > sanity check. On another machine with the same Crux and Apache version it > was able to compile Apache but that was from a Pkgfile port. Why does > /lib/cpp fail sanity check only when ./configure from the source directly > and how can I complete the compile thanks Because of your CFLAGS? -- Alan

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/lib/cpp sanity check fail on apache ./configure
by Jeff Wiley 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

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ports/opt (2.4): [notify] lighttpd: updated to 1.4.19
by crux＠crux.nu 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

commit 026e67e6badc38c34a2d7c368493fee8555d6ca3 Author: Simone Rota <sip(a)crux.nu> Date: Thu Mar 13 15:10:54 2008 +0100 [notify] lighttpd: updated to 1.4.19 Version 1.4.19 includes fixes to the following minor security issues: http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_01.txt http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_02.txt http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_03.txt Also note that it is now explicitely built without libpcre (mostly used by mod_cache) diff --git a/lighttpd/.md5sum b/lighttpd/.md5sum index aa49094..5afa47a 100644 --- a/lighttpd/.md5sum +++ b/lighttpd/.md5sum @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -5db3204d57436a032f899ff9dbce793f lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz +cede410e7adee3ea14206749190a8b5d lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz 0ca699210055a3e137ffefdcd5441c09 lighttpd.conf acf07b7bf297e76923511abff24859b9 lighttpd.rc diff --git a/lighttpd/Pkgfile b/lighttpd/Pkgfile index defc16a..bff7606 100644 --- a/lighttpd/Pkgfile +++ b/lighttpd/Pkgfile @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # Depends on: name=lighttpd -version=1.4.18 +version=1.4.19 release=1 source=(http://www.$name.net/download/$name-$version.tar.gz \ $name.conf \ @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ source=(http://www.$name.net/download/$name-$version.tar.gz \ build() { cd $name-$version ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/$name --with-openssl \ - --mandir=/usr/man + --mandir=/usr/man --without-pcre make make DESTDIR=$PKG install

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Re: Call for testing: Improved Firefox port.
by Fredrik Rinnestam 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Builds fine on my 64bit system. All fonts in firefox looks diffrent though. -- Fredrik Rinnestam

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OT: Being away
by Clemens Koller 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hi, There! Due to traveling around asia, I won't be available on the list(s) from March 11th to April 16th. Have a good time with CRUX... :-) Clemens

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Call for testing: Improved Firefox port.
by Brett Goulder 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Attached is a Firefox port modified with all the changes I intend to push into the one in opt once 2.0.0.13 is released, mostly it's further debloating for Firefox, however it also includes one change that could potentially be disruptive to users: It links all of Firefox's internal libraries and extensions statically, into the main binary. This reduces disk space consumption, improves start-time performance and doesn't break any applications that build against Firefox. Mozilla's own binary builds are built this way, in fact. The reason this could be disruptive is because the final linking to generate the main firefox-bin file requires a lot of RAM, in my experience, 512MB minimum or a large amount of swap to compensate. This could cause build problems for some users, although Danny Rawlins managed to build this port on a system with only 256MB of RAM. I wanted to post this here to receive further testing before 2.0.0.13 is released, so that I don't push something potentially destructive to opt. -- ~predatorfreak GnuPG Public key: http://pred.dcaf-security.org/dcafsec-pub-gpgkey.asc

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