March 2008 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

initramfs renewal
by Matthias-Christian Ott 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hi, during the weekend I tried to build a CRUX 2.4 PXE installation "medium". After power cycling my ALIX board about 50 times (hopefully without damage) I got a very stripped down Linux 2.6.24 Kernel running with serial console and nfsroot support. But I recognised the following problems: 1. squashfs + NFS doesn't really make sense 2. init doesn't work via the serial console (even if it dup2()s /dev/console to stdout) 3. manually edited module lists are really undesirable and inflexible, this applies to init which loads this list I have to add that CRUX 2.3 worked via NFS, but mounting another NFS share after booting caused to system to hang. Generally the whole init and boot system of the installation CD is quite imperfect and inflexible and I suggest to replace it. I thought and research into it and came up with the following ideas: o replace busybox with embutils [1] (or similar collections), klibc [2] and dash [3] o include klibc or dietlibc [4] o configure dhcp + nfs in userspace o load squashfs via tftp o rewrite init in C or C++ (uSTL) o automatic module loading The last point is a bit problematic, because it would mean to write some kind of mini udev which read sysfs' modalias, determine whether it's a hard disk, cdrom drive or network card and pass over the modalias to modprobe. The second possibility would be to actually use udev and include all modules in the initramfs image. What do you think about it? Regards Matthias-Christian [1] http://www.fefe.de/embutils/ [2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git [3] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git [4] http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

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ports/opt (2.4): [notify] thunderbird: updated to 2.0.0.12
by crux＠crux.nu 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

commit 59e155da724cc210213c7cfddc7e75fdae6b9f07 Author: Simone Rota <sip(a)crux.nu> Date: Tue Mar 4 10:01:58 2008 +0000 [notify] thunderbird: updated to 2.0.0.12 Updated version closes a flaw allowing remote code execution, see http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2210683/mozilla-patches-critical-mail diff --git a/thunderbird/.footprint b/thunderbird/.footprint index ee1b2e8..0401d7c 100644 --- a/thunderbird/.footprint +++ b/thunderbird/.footprint @@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ drwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/ -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/gfx.xpt -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/history.xpt -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/htmlparser.xpt --rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/imgicon.xpt -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/imglib2.xpt -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/impComm4xMail.xpt -rw-r--r-- root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/import.xpt @@ -121,7 +120,6 @@ drwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libhtmlpars.so -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libi18n.so --rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libimgicon.so -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libimglib2.so -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libimport.so -rwxr-xr-x root/root usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libjar50.so diff --git a/thunderbird/.md5sum b/thunderbird/.md5sum index d6a1062..296218e 100644 --- a/thunderbird/.md5sum +++ b/thunderbird/.md5sum @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ e8f478e4b74d5f57651fb145df6021ba mozconfig -a6dd74f87dafc7516e7970ecefee046b thunderbird-2.0.0.9-source.tar.bz2 +c23f576a8fd0ceee5135829c8ae5168b thunderbird-2.0.0.12-source.tar.bz2 diff --git a/thunderbird/Pkgfile b/thunderbird/Pkgfile index 7d1046b..532bc3f 100644 --- a/thunderbird/Pkgfile +++ b/thunderbird/Pkgfile @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ # Depends on: libidl, gtk, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, expat name=thunderbird -version=2.0.0.9 +version=2.0.0.12 release=1 source=(ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/$name/releases/$version/sourc… \ mozconfig)

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[ANN] pkgutils 5.32.0 released
by Tilman Sauerbeck 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hi, I've just pushed pkgutils 5.32.0. Here's the shortlog: Johannes Weiner (1): Bug #204: Restore mtime for extracted files. Tilman Sauerbeck (2): Removed /etc/mail/cf from the UPGRADE rules in pkgadd.conf. Bumped version to 5.32.0. Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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