[Mageia-dev] Potential future problem with kernel provides / synthesis
Currently the list of provides for kernel packages make lines of 55k characters in the synthesis URPM uses a 64k buffer to read lines and will reject longer lines Next in the list is gcstar with 42727 due to the huge number of perl modules provided
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
On 08/10/2012 03:27 PM, Christiaan Welvaart wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote: How many people expect their machine to power off when they type halt? How many people will want their machine to not halt and not poweroff? Said in another way: - How many people will this change cause problem to? - How many people will benefit from it? I would expect the ratio to be about at least 99.9/0.1 which is why I hate it. This change seem to be done without any consideration for users. So fix it, no change to systemctl is needed AFAICT, just replace the symlink with a tool that does "the right thing", probably running "poweroff" passing all arguments verbatim. Don't forget to fix the manpage as well. Christiaan Another possible fix would be to create an alias, maybe add it to .bashrc. Personally I have always just preferred to use the good old 'init 0' and 'init 6' commands. No matter what version of whatever distro you may be using they always do the same thing. -- /"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."/ *~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.*
[Mageia-dev] Security updates - help needed!
I've picked off all of the low-hanging fruit, so the remaining packages on this list really do need help to get fixed. . updated initial message below There are several packages that need security updates that either have not been built yet, or there are some issues that need help and/or input from packagers. Please help out with these where you can. I'll try to organize these into categories and give a little info on them so it's easy to see if you can and want to help. Web apps ocsinventory - Mageia 1 package needs to be updated or patched (patches available from MDV) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5252 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129 mediawiki - versions we have are at or nearing EOL upstream, probably should be updated. Oliver Burger is working on this. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3448 drupal - update built, issues found by QA need fixing. Oliver Burger is working on this. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5844 GNOME software -- mono - upstream commit linked https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6789 libvirt - patch available from RedHat https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526 libguestfs - patch available from RedHat https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6818 gjs - doesn't rebuild against xulrunner in Mageia 1, but doesn't seem to be used by anything https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6382 Games - openarena, alienarena - affected by DoS bug in quake3 engine. Juan Luis Baptiste is working on this. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5496 Java-related jruby - fixed upstream in 1.6.5.1 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6742 poi - In progress by D Morgan. Additional updates pending. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011 apache-commons-compress - In progress by D Morgan. Mageia 1 updates pending. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6331 apache-commons-daemon - fixed upstream in 1.0.7 (only Mageia 1 is affected) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7004 Ruby-related Several security issues, one possible packaging issue https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6487 No response has been received from packagers yet ganglia - patch available from Fedora, we have another bug report saying it doesn't start https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6874 libreoffice - Mageia 1 only, patch available from RedHat https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6944 stunnel - package has several other issues as well, should probably just be updated https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3951 phpmyadmin - needs updated to 3.5.2.1 and fixed in Cauldron for new apache conf layout https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6905 python-django - issues fixed upstream in 1.3.2. Philippe Makowski said he'll work on this. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6986 empathy - XSS issues fixed upstream in 3.2.1 (only Mageia 1 is affected) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7008 abrt/libreport/btparser - should probably be upgraded to newer versions available from RedHat https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523 sos - 62 patches available from Fedora https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525 x11-server - upstream diffs linked by RedHat, maybe patches available from Ubuntu or Gentoo, plus other security issues fixed by RH/OpenSuSE/Ubuntu https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6744 In progress (help needed to finish) --- dhcp - issues fixed upstream in 4.2.4-P1 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6872 bind - issues fixed upstream in 9.8.3-P2 and 9.9.1-P2 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6873 xen - doesn't build in Cauldron (incompatible pointer type in i8259.c) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6931 gc - links to upstream and Fedora patches available in bug, already fixed in Cauldron https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6652 bip - patch in Mageia 1 didn't fix it according to QA, patch wasn't applied in Mageia 2 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4319 emacs - re-diffing patch for Emacs 23.2 (Mageia 1) is non-trivial https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6995 psi - fixed in SVN, does not build in Cauldron (can't find qca2-devel even though it's installed) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7002
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jose Jorge wrote: Le 09/08/2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines anymore on shutdown. The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered. I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs. Does someone else see that? Yes, and some other distros do the same (at least Slitaz). Before Mageia 2, there was no interest in having both halt and poweroff doing the same. Now, we can do "poweroff" to cut the power after stopping the kernel, or "halt" to keep the power on. As I said earlier, if you are looking for these system shutdown commands, use: systemctl reboot systemctl halt systemctl poweroff directly. The "halt, "reboot", and "poweroff" commands are only there for backwards compatibility. How many people expect their machine to power off when they type halt? How many people will want their machine to not halt and not poweroff? Said in another way: - How many people will this change cause problem to? - How many people will benefit from it? I would expect the ratio to be about at least 99.9/0.1 which is why I hate it. This change seem to be done without any consideration for users. So fix it, no change to systemctl is needed AFAICT, just replace the symlink with a tool that does "the right thing", probably running "poweroff" passing all arguments verbatim. Don't forget to fix the manpage as well. Christiaan
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jose Jorge wrote: > Le 09/08/2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > >> Hi >> >> I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines >> anymore on shutdown. >> The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered. >> I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs. >> >> Does someone else see that? > > Yes, and some other distros do the same (at least Slitaz). Before Mageia 2, > there was no interest in having both halt and poweroff doing the same. > > Now, we can do "poweroff" to cut the power after stopping the kernel, or > "halt" to keep the power on. How many people expect their machine to power off when they type halt? How many people will want their machine to not halt and not poweroff? Said in another way: - How many people will this change cause problem to? - How many people will benefit from it? I would expect the ratio to be about at least 99.9/0.1 which is why I hate it. This change seem to be done without any consideration for users.
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
Le 09/08/2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : Hi I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines anymore on shutdown. The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered. I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs. Does someone else see that? Yes, and some other distros do the same (at least Slitaz). Before Mageia 2, there was no interest in having both halt and poweroff doing the same. Now, we can do "poweroff" to cut the power after stopping the kernel, or "halt" to keep the power on.
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
Christiaan Welvaart writes: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:04 did gyre and gimble: >>> Yes because it totally makes sense to have a command to halt the >>> operating system but leave the machine using some power for nothing >>> (and preventing you from powering it on with wol). I am sure someone >>> believes it can be useful in some strange scenario. >> >> It's very useful and it was essential for me during the previous release >> to debug shutdown logic. > > The shutdown command has always been used for this. But with the previous initscripts/sysvinit, the halt command was eventually handled by /etc/init.d/halt, which automatically passed the -p argument to halt. -- Olivier Blin - blino
Re: [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:04 did gyre and gimble: Yes because it totally makes sense to have a command to halt the operating system but leave the machine using some power for nothing (and preventing you from powering it on with wol). I am sure someone believes it can be useful in some strange scenario. It's very useful and it was essential for me during the previous release to debug shutdown logic. The shutdown command has always been used for this. Apparently you need to pass -H to it now, though. To power off aka 'halt' a machine, shutdown -h was used and this still works according to the manpage. Please read the halt manpage (and others): "These are legacy commands available for compatibility only." So you arguing its behavior is now "fixed" because it was "broken" does not make sense. Christiaan
