Re: More LiveCD space optimizations

2010-10-08 Thread Matthias Klose
[ compression related discussion removed ] So maybe we can save some MB with better compression, but we can save more by not including files at all. Of course this requires inspection of the packages included on the liveCD. In the past we did identify some issues and did add some diagnostics

Re: More LiveCD space optimizations

2010-10-08 Thread Louis Simard
2010-10-08 09:54 GMT Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com: In the past we did see wasted space:  - Packages which should not be on the CD.  Some things should not be   on the CD at all.  Looking at the current live CD log, a typical   candidate for this would be tcl8.4. Why is it there, and how can

Re: Wiki SSL

2010-10-08 Thread Clint Byrum
On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: wiki.ubuntu.com forces you to use an SSL connection via automatic redirect to https. Why does it do this, and can we stop that please? There is no reason for using SSL to access a public web site when you are not logged in. It only serves to

Re: Wiki SSL

2010-10-08 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com wrote: With SSL, this will at least show some very serious warnings about the SSL certificate. Even if he just redirects from the http port on wiki.ubuntu.com to https on his evil server, he will have to change the name, and the

Re: Wiki SSL

2010-10-08 Thread Phillip Susi
On 10/8/2010 1:20 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: Yes, but what protection does this bring if: * the speaker enters wiki.ubuntu.com in the browser (default to HTTP) * the attacker does NOT redirect to a SSL site and just presents a (malicious) HTTP page * the speaker has no clue that

Re: Wiki SSL

2010-10-08 Thread Clint Byrum
On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 10/8/2010 1:20 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: Yes, but what protection does this bring if: * the speaker enters wiki.ubuntu.com in the browser (default to HTTP) * the attacker does NOT redirect to a SSL site and just presents a

Re: Wiki SSL

2010-10-08 Thread Clint Byrum
On Oct 8, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com wrote: Right, though if that site is *delivered via ssl* and the cert is from a trusted organization, you can trust the source of that information.. if you click history

Re: More LiveCD space optimizations

2010-10-08 Thread Louis Simard
Apologies for the previous attachment, it didn't have the addition for man-page symbolic links. I attach the proper one this time. - Louis ubuntu-opt.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or