Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Mark Dixon]

I'm sure they  do, however:

* They're not mainting the pcbsd domain anymore

* They switched to github years ago.

Mark

On Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:34:10 BST Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> I thought TrueOS was just a rebrand with a new focus on rolling with
> Freebsd-CURRENT? Why would that affect area51? They still want an
> up-to-date KDE...
> 
> Cheers,
> DMK
> tcberner at freebsd.org 
> On May 20, 2017 7:04 AM, Mark Dixon  wrote:
> > I suspect area51 svn isn't coming back. PC-BSD is a defunct project,
> > they've all moved on to TrueOS.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Which vulnerability do you mean?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
> > > applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
> > > about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
> > > has been unreachable for the last week.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > mfg Tobias

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

I thought TrueOS was just a rebrand with a new focus on rolling with 
Freebsd-CURRENT? Why would that affect area51? They still want an up-to-date 
KDE...

Cheers,
DMK

On May 20, 2017 7:04 AM, Mark Dixon  wrote:
>
> I suspect area51 svn isn't coming back. PC-BSD is a defunct project, they've 
> all moved on to TrueOS. 
>
> Mark 
>
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Which vulnerability do you mean? 
> > 
> > 
> > area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the 
> > applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care 
> > about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository 
> > has been unreachable for the last week. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > mfg Tobias 
> > 

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Hannes Hauswedell]

On 20.05.2017 12:53, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> See https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision=440556 --
> kauth is fixed.
> 

Cool!

Thanks,
Hannes

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Mark Dixon]

I suspect area51 svn isn't coming back. PC-BSD is a defunct project, they've 
all moved on to TrueOS.

Mark

> Hi
> 
> Which vulnerability do you mean?
> 
> 
> area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
> applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
> about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
> has been unreachable for the last week.
> 
> 
> 
> mfg Tobias
>

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Hannes Hauswedell]

Thanks for your reply!

On 20.05.2017 11:50, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Which vulnerability do you mean?

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3


> 
> area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
> applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
> about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
> has been unreachable for the last week.
> 

I checked the one I found on https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php which is
http://meatwad.mouf.net/rubick/poudriere/packages/110-amd64-area51
I looked at the All directory and found only quite a few packages,
especially considering that https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php tells us
to deactivate the official repo...

Best regards,
Hannes

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Tobias C. Berner]

See https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision=440556 --
kauth is fixed.


mfg Tobias



On 20 May 2017 at 12:47, Hannes Hauswedell  wrote:
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> On 20.05.2017 11:50, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Which vulnerability do you mean?
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3
>
>
>>
>> area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
>> applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
>> about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
>> has been unreachable for the last week.
>>
>
> I checked the one I found on https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php which is
> http://meatwad.mouf.net/rubick/poudriere/packages/110-amd64-area51
> I looked at the All directory and found only quite a few packages,
> especially considering that https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php tells us
> to deactivate the official repo...
>
> Best regards,
> Hannes

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Schaich Alonso]

On Fri, 19 May 2017 17:17:02 +0200
Hannes Hauswedell  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE 
> root vulnerability.
> 
> I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I 
> did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of 
> KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped 
> reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our 
> versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to 
> be 
> serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least 
> KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all 
> my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
> And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages 
> for 
> any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't 
> want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.
> 
> Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really 
> helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether 
> this is completely unknown right now.
> 
> Thank you,
> Hannes
> 
> 

Hi

I can't tell you about the schedule of KF5 for FreeBSD. The KF5 library
components that are currenlty in the ports collection will likely see
an update soon, as the exp-run required for such a large commit
completed yesterday. Note that these components are just the libs and
not the desktop and front end applications themselves.

The "relevant" apps are all in area51's plasma5 branch. Although I
cannot say anything about kmail, the others "work" here. Which means
the desktop itself and kate work better than their KDE4 counterparts,
but kdevelop segfaults every 2 minutes on my installation :D

Make sure to switch to the plasma5 branch of area51 if you want/need
kde5, as the default branch is still on KDE-4.14 and Qt-4.8.

Alonso

Re: The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi

Which vulnerability do you mean?


area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
has been unreachable for the last week.



mfg Tobias


On 19 May 2017 at 17:17, Hannes Hauswedell  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE
> root vulnerability.
>
> I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I
> did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of
> KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped
> reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our
> versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to be
> serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least
> KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all
> my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
> And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages for
> any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't
> want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.
>
> Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really
> helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether
> this is completely unknown right now.
>
> Thank you,
> Hannes
>
>

The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Hannes Hauswedell]

Hi everyone,

my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE 
root vulnerability.

I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I 
did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of 
KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped 
reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our 
versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to be 
serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least 
KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all 
my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages for 
any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't 
want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.

Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really 
helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether 
this is completely unknown right now.

Thank you,
Hannes