[gentoo-dev] lastrite: media-sound/opmixer

2008-03-23 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (23 Mar 2008) # Last release 1 Jul 2001 with support for OSS and # GTK+-1.2 with GTKMM-1.2. Masked for removal in # 30 days, use one of the many replacements. media-sound/opmixer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-23 Thread Ben de Groot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: | ... I don't think there is any excuse not to update the published | release schedule,... | | snip | | the update is simple: the untimely and quite unexpected surgical | complication resulting in the death of my mother has set

[gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-23 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello All, linux-2.6.24 supports file based capabilities via: CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES This enables the use of filesystem attributes in order to store per executable capabilities list, more information at [1]. This enables improved security level for people who don't wish to move into

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:21:29 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux-2.6.24 supports file based capabilities via: CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES This will provide more secured installation for users with a little effort, less usage of root user. What do you think? Needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-23 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 3/23/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:21:29 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux-2.6.24 supports file based capabilities via: CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES This will provide more secured installation for users with a little

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-23 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 3/23/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? A simple USE flag should be enough, if set use caps, if not use current. A user turns the use flag on, the ebuild creates files using caps rather than set*id, the package manager merges it by copying the file and the installed

[gentoo-dev] Escaping+Quoting notes for linux-mod.eclass

2008-03-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Just a quick note about Escaping+Quoting stuff relevant to the usage of linux-mod.eclass. Up until recently, linux-mod.eclass had a bug where if you passed variables inside the $BUILD_PARAMS variable, AND those inner variables contained spaces, they would not be passed to Make

Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage

2008-03-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:45:24 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/08, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? A simple USE flag should be enough, if set use caps, if not use current. A user turns the use flag on, the ebuild creates files using caps rather

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-03-23 23h59 UTC

2008-03-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-03-23 23h59 UTC. Removals: games-kids/tuxtype2 2008-03-17 03:04:02 mr_bones_ games-fps/quake3-wop2008-03-17 23:23:28 nyhm Additions: