[gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Daniel Iliev]

Hi, guys

Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage started to
show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve Dibb for security
reasons [1].

Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but I'm
pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't want to
have problematic packages installed. What should I do in this case?



[1]:
======
!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007 (masked by: package.mask)
/home/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> (5 Nov 2008)
# Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662


!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
media-libs/amd64codecs

... done!

Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
=======



[2]:
=======
equery d amd64codecs
[ Searching for packages depending on amd64codecs... ]
media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 (!bindist & amd64 & real?
media-libs/amd64codecs)
=======


[3] emerge -pv mplayer

[binary   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1  USE="3dnow
3dnowext X a52 aac alsa custom-cflags doc dts dvd encode esd gif iconv
jack jpeg ladspa mad mmx mmxext mp3 opengl png quicktime rtc sdl srt
sse sse2 theora truetype unicode vorbis x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
-aalib (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio
-cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -dirac -directfb
-dv -dvb -dxr3 -enca -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -joystick -libcaca
-lirc -live -lzo -md5sum -mp2 -musepack -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm
-pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar (-real) -samba -schroedinger -speex -ssse3
(-svga) -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim
-xinerama -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 



-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Beso]

2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi, guys
>
> Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage started to
> show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve Dibb for security
> reasons [1].
>
> Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but I'm
> pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
> uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't want to
> have problematic packages installed. What should I do in this case?
>
>
>
> [1]:
> ======
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007 (masked by: package.mask)
> /home/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> (5 Nov 2008)
> # Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
>
>
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-libs/amd64codecs
>
> ... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
> =======
>
>
>
> [2]:
> =======
> equery d amd64codecs
> [ Searching for packages depending on amd64codecs... ]
> media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 (!bindist & amd64 & real?
> media-libs/amd64codecs)
> =======
>
>
> [3] emerge -pv mplayer
>
> [binary   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1  USE="3dnow
> 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa custom-cflags doc dts dvd encode esd gif iconv
> jack jpeg ladspa mad mmx mmxext mp3 opengl png quicktime rtc sdl srt
> sse sse2 theora truetype unicode vorbis x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
> -aalib (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio
> -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -dirac -directfb
> -dv -dvb -dxr3 -enca -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -joystick -libcaca
> -lirc -live -lzo -md5sum -mp2 -musepack -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm
> -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar (-real) -samba -schroedinger -speex -ssse3
> (-svga) -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim
> -xinerama -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa"
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
>

the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.

-- 
dott. ing. beso

Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Daniel Iliev]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100
Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi, guys
> >
> > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage
> > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve
> > Dibb for security reasons [1].
> >
> > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but
> > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
> > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't
> > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in
> > this case?
> >
> >

[snip]

> 
> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.


Thanks for the reply.
I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
time.


-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Beso]

2008/11/8 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100
> Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hi, guys
>> >
>> > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage
>> > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve
>> > Dibb for security reasons [1].
>> >
>> > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but
>> > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
>> > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't
>> > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in
>> > this case?
>> >
>> >
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
>> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
>> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
>> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
>> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
> when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
> time.
>
just unmask the full version with

=media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007

-- 
dott. ing. beso

Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Daniel,
on Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:37:42PM +0200, you wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
> when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
> time.

I used to hate that job but since the eix package added
eix-test-obsolete, it's been a breeze. Just drop a little script in
/etc/cron.monthly so you'll get a mail with the output if you tend to
forget it (not that it hurt much if you do).

cheers,
	Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Christoph Mende]

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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100
Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.
> 
ffmpeg has support for several windows media and I think even real
codecs, you don't need amd64codecs to play those. amd64codecs doesn't
contain any WMV codecs AFAIK.

-- 
Christoph Mende
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Lead and Release Engineering
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [kind of solved] amd64codecs masked

[Daniel Iliev]

Since I haven't seen real media files for a long time I
decided to unmerge those codecs and recompile mplayer.

Thanks for the help, guys.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel