2016-09-09 13:36 GMT+02:00 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>: > On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > > > update into the wheezy repo's? > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > > > Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not already > > in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the work required or > > something. > > > > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. > > > > Gene, may I humbly suggest you should get a new box for non-Linux-CNC > > work, and keep that wheezy box you use for Linux-CNC off the grid so > > that it doesn't become a liability in the future? > > Liability? Only if its destroyed on purpose by a malicious update. I > have a router with dd-wrt reflashed into it. No back doors. And it > stops _all_ the unfunny stuff. And according to the error message I get > when I run firefox-esr from a terminal, SSL is missing. But its not, FF > just can't find it. IMO firefox-esr is a disaster despite the hype. > > > You will be happier in the medium/long term after the investment in > > the new box pays itself off, Debian jessie should work much better > > overall for you for desktopish things (i.e. not Linux-CNC), and the > > rest of us will be happier even sooner because we will have less > > support requests related to oldstable to attend to[1] ;-) > > > > Paypal works just fine with firefox in a standard Debian 8.6 install. > > > > [1] Any work done for stable and unstable/testing _usually_ helps a > > lot more people than work done for oldstable. > > I can appreciate that, but wheezy is supposed to have security support > until sometime in 2018, but this gradual destruction of a formerly > working system just to get folks to update smells an awful lot like > fedora, and that rebuild your system every 30 days got old, very fast, > so I bailed to mandrake all those years ago. And now its happening > again. All I want is a system that Just Works(TM) and now it isn't. >
Fedora work just fine, and you don't need to rebuild anything every 30 days. I use it for years now, because sometimes I want cutting edge packages. You want too much for free ... You just need to update your ssl library to be able to use paypal. So : - You upgrade to jessie and use VM to run linux CNC stuff (or the opposite) - You pin libnss3 to stretch/unstable in apt preferences (it may or may not work) - You grab the deb src and dpkg-buildpackage by yourself - You wait until a fix is available 4 solutions comes to you, choose one and do it ! You don't need to be rude against people trying to help you. > Sometime today I'll see if I can figure out how to install the real > mozilla firefox 48.something tarball. Maybe even make it use the new > flashplayer.so, now at major version 23 something. I already have them > downloaded. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > >
