Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 01:22 +0100, Alex Boag-Munroe wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 22:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > What I am saying is that I want the freedom to not have things > > pointlessly enabled on my systems, because similar problems (and worse) > > happen all day every day. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 22:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > What I am saying is that I want the freedom to not have things > pointlessly enabled on my systems, because similar problems (and worse) > happen all day every day. The less exposure I have, the better. The > liblzma backdoor was timely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 16:48 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > So, what you're basically saying, is that the best Gentoo response right > now would be to frantically remove LZMA support everywhere? I'm sure > that would be so much better than our response of masking vulnerable > versions and issuing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 08:51 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 14:35 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > > Uhh, I dont really remember, I think some Chinese-sounding guy asked > > me for it... (j/k) > > It is remarkably bad timing. How it looks: Gentoo's response to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I see no way of migrating to 23.0 profile because of not-recompilable > packages that are installed (over 4 years) which block --emptytree, > and do not wish to be forced to migrate to merged-usr on an openrc box > without a compelling need (on principle). That sounds a bit like self-inflicted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 7. April 2024, 14:51:55 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 14:35 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > > Uhh, I dont really remember, I think some Chinese-sounding guy asked > > me for it... (j/k) > > It is remarkably bad timing. How it looks: Gentoo's response

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 14:35 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Uhh, I dont really remember, I think some Chinese-sounding guy asked > me for it... (j/k) It is remarkably bad timing. How it looks: Gentoo's response to the xz incident is to have me rebuild my entire system with everything that

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/unifi-video

2024-04-07 Thread Ben Kohler
# Ben Kohler (2024-04-07) # Abandoned upstream long ago in favor of Unifi Protect (running only on an # official Unifi appliance.  Likely contains lots of security holes in bundled # libs. # Removal on 2024-05-07.  Bug #928881 acct-group/unifi-video acct-user/unifi-video

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/memtest86

2024-04-07 Thread Ben Kohler
# Ben Kohler (2024-04-07) # Long ago forked to and obsoleted by sys-apps/memtest86+. Upstream has # abandoned this for their proprietary UEFI-based one (packaged in gentoo as # as sys-apps/memtest86-bin). # Removal on 2024-05-07.  Bug #502464, #607494, #628528, #750677, #887003, # #912973,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 7. April 2024, 04:03:01 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > On Sat, 2024-04-06 at 17:06 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > so here's a small update on the state of the 23.0 profiles: > > > > Why was this silently added to make.defaults for all 23.0 profiles? > > > #

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > Most 17.x profiles have been downgraded to "exp". > > I could imagine there is a reason to downgrade those back to 'exp', > could you elaborate a bit on that? > > Isn't it bit strange that a 'stable' profiles gets downgraded back to > 'exp'? Then again, I am not sure about the implications

[gentoo-dev] Re: Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Madhu
> Thanks for the update and the work on the 23.0 profiles. :) >> Most 17.x profiles have been downgraded to "exp". > I could imagine there is a reason to downgrade those back to 'exp', > could you elaborate a bit on that? > > Isn't it bit strange that a 'stable' profiles gets downgraded back to >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 06/04/2024 17.06, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi all, so here's a small update on the state of the 23.0 profiles: Thanks for the update and the work on the 23.0 profiles. :) Most 17.x profiles have been downgraded to "exp". I could imagine there is a reason to downgrade those back to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-07 Thread Eddie Chapman
Sam James wrote: > Eddie Chapman writes: >> Below is a guide I've written to removing app-arch/xz-utils in case >> anyone else wants to do so. Attached is the current version of the Bash >> wrapper script I now use in place of /usr/bin/xz >> >> Comments, corrections on anything technical in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-07 Thread Eddie Chapman
Fabian Groffen wrote: > If you just want to verify signatures and manifests after sync, > qmanifest from portage-utils can help you do this. > > Thanks, > Fabian Thanks for the pointer, and I see you are one of the authors, thanks for writing a very useful tool!