From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyO64-0001RZ-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:57:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7112CE01BF; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C737E01BF for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so451564eyk.10 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:57:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ivFkwDaOjPVuBipLobMTVWYmXXPQGInFiqbpuS7IvHw=; b=s5yCelsucon/+2+FWJmBl/ysL3Ck/5dW2VPmrVatUHLqjFVB2nffJVfyFG85sTAKk3 wWmnlYEq7H0WUaaCgCd6rvMCsScYLGq+vjpcGNS/fGdc40Iw+6WonwrES525e094VAJU vLNFo7kCvHEnelq5Z2z8NtpstJ0AQ0UEI4fc4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SFl0gFKMCNbq2N9UOeO/5yuP8IkcXDWmoNfzzVK98zsq3e21IdANcj0PKTeqaFYF9L hSazSZDMGbR9w80vUmGRWOObolqcCRyHQ0mwSRMZQF/L59gfURXYf5fhwsvQN4EUHunB SIQTxgpJQF3dmW/EYbirRzaplmvmRo5HRyQHE= Received: by 10.210.65.17 with SMTP id n17mr3673117eba.161.1226051862132; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.19.6 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:57:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100 From: Beso To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked In-Reply-To: <20081107103611.57599095@ilievnet.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081107103611.57599095@ilievnet.com> X-Archives-Salt: 00f73cd3-6632-4497-b14b-d404e01cc3f5 X-Archives-Hash: 06835b45c1ce773c67194072831923b8 2008/11/7 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 (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