* [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 36
@ 2003-09-08 4:47 Yuji Carlos Kosugi
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of September 9th, 2003.
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1. Gentoo News
==============
Summary
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* Second Gentoo BugDay a success
Second Gentoo BugDay a success
------------------------------
Another smashing success, participants in this weeks BugDay, held on
September 6, bravely squashed a total of 124 bugs. Only in its second
month, BugDay atrracted a total of 171 unique bug hunters, with a record
of 149 simultaneous attendees in #gentoo-bugs, surpassing last months
inaugeral BugDay by a large margin (130 bug quashers participated last
month). Among the crowd were many people eager to lend their expertise and
learn from others. Users got to interact with Gentoo developers in a
unique way, and some new potential developers were spotted. We'd like to
thank everyone who came out and made this months BugDay a huge success,
and we hope to see you next month: Same bug time, same bug channel!
==================
2. Gentoo Security
==================
Summary
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* GLSA: pam_smb
* GLSA: vmware
* GLSA: horde
* GLSA: eroaster
* GLSA: phpwebsite
* GLSA: mindi
* GLSA: gallery
* GLSA: atari800
GLSA: pam_smb
-------------
Quote from advisory:
"If a long password is supplied, this can cause a buffer overflow which
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
process which invokes PAM services."
* Severity: High - remote execute of code.
* Packages Affected: <pam_smb-2.0.0_rc5
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge pam_smb; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[1]
1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106241793528217&w=2
GLSA: vmware
------------
Quote from advisory:
The previous GLSA 200308-03 was wrong when it stated that
vmware-workstation-4.0.1-5289 would fix the problems described in the
advisory.
* Severity: High - local full host access.
* Packages Affected: <vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592>;
emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[2]
2. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106242339501516&w=2
GLSA: horde
-----------
Quote from advisory:
"An attacker could send an email to the victim who ago use of HORDE MTA in
order to push it to visit a website. The website in issue log all the
accesses and describe in the particular the origin of every victim."
* Severity: High - session hijacking.
* Packages Affected: <horde-2.2.4_rc2
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge horde; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[3]
3. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106242613904289&w=2
GLSA: eroaster
--------------
Previous eroaster versions allowwed local users to overwrite arbitrary
files via a symlink attack on a temporary file that is used as a lockfile.
* Severity: Medium - symlink attack.
* Packages Affected: <eroaster-2.1.0-r2
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge eroaster; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[4]
4. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106249757028467&w=2
GLSA: phpwebsite
----------------
phpwebsite contains an sql injection vulnerability in the calendar module
which allows the attacker to execute sql queries. In addition phpwebsite
is also vulnerable to XSS, more information can be found in the full
advisory.
* Severity: High - SQL Injection, DoS and XSS Vulnerabilities.
* Packages Affected: <phpwebsite-0.9.3_p1
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge phpwebsite; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[5]
5. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106249254924303&w=2
GLSA: mindi
-----------
Mindi creates files in /tmp which could allow local user to overwrite
arbitrary files
* Severity: Medium - insecure file creations.
* Packages Affected: <mindi-0.86
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge mindi; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[6]
6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106249904429698&w=2
GLSA: gallery
-------------
Quote from advisory:
"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.php of Gallery 1.1
through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary web script via
the searchstring parameter."
* Severity: High - cross site scripting.
* Packages Affected: <gallery-1.3.4_p1
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge gallery; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[7]
7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106250951606667&w=2
GLSA: atari800
--------------
atar800 contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker to
gain root privileges. Altough the atari800 package in Gentoo does not
install any files suid root we encourage our users to upgrade.
* Severity: Low - buffer overflow.
* Packages Affected: <atari800-1.3.0-r1
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge atari800; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106251162709180&w=2
New Security Bug Reports
------------------------
The following new security bugs were posted in the past week:
* net-mail/exim[9]
9. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27984
===============
3. User stories
===============
User stories is on hiatus this week. Remember to send us[10] your bizarre,
hilarious, or incredible Gentoo stories so they can be featured here!
10. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
=================================
4. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Thomas Pedley
Figure 4.1: Thomas Pedley
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20030908_shallax.jpg
This week's featured dev is Thomas Pedley[11] (shallax), who is singularly
responsible for the most ironic of Gentoo ports: Gentoox[12] (Gentoo for
the XBox). Thomas is the only official developer for the project, but he
claims this reduces the number of developer conflicts. His
responsibilities run the gamut through kernel hacking, user support,
distro maintenance, building binary packages, dealing with legal issues,
and maintaining the gentoox web site. Appropriately,
gentoox.shallax.com[13] and forums.shallax.com[14] were recently moved to
an XBox host.
11. shallax@gentoo.org
12. http://gentoox.shallax.com/
13. http://gentoox.shallax.com
14. http://forums.shallax.com
Thomas' work came to the attention of the Gentoo community with his
post[15] to the forums in March. Although other people had managed to get
Gentoo up and running on a modded XBox, Thomas was the first to put
together a formal distribution and documentation - which has greatly
facilitated the growth of Gentoo on the heavily subsidized Microsoft
gaming platform. The idea of using the XBox as a cheap multimedia PC has
been enthralling Linux fans for months. Our subject's proudest
accomplishment came with the succesful hacking of the XBox's Cromwell bios
to permit loading of a larger initrd file, and the subsequent cleaning up
of the boot process in Gentoox. Thomas now runs two XBoxen: the
continuously up web server and another that is, tragically, periodically
taken down to play games with.
15. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=44518
In addition to the XBoxen, Thomas runs a 1.8 GHz P4 desktop, and a 533 MHz
Celeron server. He likes KDE, but uses the lower footprint WindowMaker
when on an XBox. He is a bit of a messaging addict, launching Gaim and
XChat when he first boots (or Trillian and mIRC if booting into the other
OS). He first heard of Gentoo back in 2001, but was daunted by its
learning curve until 2002 and completed the transition to Gentoo for his
servers this year. His favorite applications are gcc and emerge, and
prefers pico/nano as an editor. He does a lot of his development work
using bash scripting, and chose to implement the Gentoox patch system
(which works alongside portage for XBox implementations) in bash.
Thomas recently completed 6th Form at the Simon Balle school, and will
start Computer Science studies at the University of Hertfordshire in a few
weeks. He also works at a local supermarket in order to generate the funds
he needs for acquiring XBoxen and maintaining his beloved Peugot 205. He
lives in Hertfordshire, England, just outside London.
When asked for a favourite quote, Thomas offered a Beastie Boy lyric:
"DIY, that means do it yourself - I don't sit around waiting for someone's
help, I don't sit back and say good enough, I keep on striving,
reinventing.", which seems quite appropriate. He also observed that
"Gentoo is the most solid distribution I have had the pleasure of using,
and the user base is friendly and willing to help each other out." He also
wanted to take an opportunity to thank all those who have helped out with
the Gentoox project - interested readers are directed to the Gentoox
README to hear about their contributions.
=========================
5. Heard in the Community
=========================
Web Forums
----------
Gentoo on the Pegasos PPC
Being one of the rare Gentoo devs with a Pegasos G3/600 MHz at home,
dholm[16] has succesfully Gentooified that particular non-Macintosh, yet
PowerPC-based platform. The next LiveCD will contain an official build,
but dholm's kernel is ready for testing by anyone who'd like to try their
hands. In the same thread, PPC-lead-developer pvdabeel[17] has announced
that Gentoo will run on the AmigaOne, too.
16. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26973
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17163
* Does Gentoo run on the Pegasos PPC ?[18]
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=70326
Making an Effort
Besides browsing the overview of individual forums, people tend to look
for topics via the "posts since last visit" link or input text strings in
the quick search field related to whatever problem they have. One of the
less popular features of the phpBB forum interface is a link located to
the top right of the page that simply says: "View unanswered posts". At
currently almost 10,000 of those, among a lot of garbage there's a much
larger amount of newbie questions that went unanswered, sometimes because
the title wasn't too clear, the problem too obscure, or maybe not very
interesting to the regulars on board. Gentoomen, have you helped a newbie
today?
* View unanswered posts[19]
19. http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_id=unanswered
gentoo-user
-----------
$100 UPSes for Linux
For those of us that absolutely NEED to run Gentoo--electric service or
not--an uninterruptable power supply could be just what you're looking
for. Gentoo user Chip Marshall started the $100 Linux UPS Challenge to see
if anyone knew of Linux-compatible UPSes that could be bought for roughly
$100. Read on [20] for all the great suggestions.
20.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3CN
DBBLGIKBJENLAMOLFHGOENODBAB.mknecht%40controlnet.com%3E
qpkg Tips
Ever wondered which ebuild supplied a certain file on your hard drive?
This thread from the -user list week offered up a quick and cool tip on
qpkg to do just that. Check it out here [21] .
21.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C2
0030901204053.8152%40balsam%3E
gentoo-dev
----------
Gentoo Games.
Who said there weren't any games on linux? Well we definately prove them
wrong here at Gentoo, with the number of games packages in app-games now
outnumbering those in dev-perl! Break them up a little you say? Well
you're too late! Mike Frysinger is a step[22] ahead of you! Have a look to
see where the discussion went.
22. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/11855/
Portage is your friend.
Although some of us are more than happy to just type in emerge myprogram,
some people actually like to know how these things work. Grant Goodyear is
one such person, who decided that a little walkthrough would be
appropriate. Have a look here[23].
23. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/11819/
=======================
6. Gentoo International
=======================
Japan: Gentoo Navi Log
Mamoru Komachi, better known as Usata[24], a Gentoo dev at large and
maintainer of the pTeX package, has started a weblog that keeps track of
new ebuilds and contains news and tidbits centered around the needs of
Japanese Gentooists. Some of the more interesting recent developments
already feature prominently on his page, including Botond Botyanszki's new
Japanese input method im-ja or the new GTK2 variant of Sylpheed, for
example. Best of all: the blog is open to audience participation, everyone
willing to commit one or the other concise newsbit about Gentoo is welcome
to add to the logbook. Check Usata's page[25] - only if your Japanese is
up to the task, of course...
24. usata@gentoo.org
25. http://www.smalltown.ne.jp/~usata/gentoo/
================
7. Portage Watch
================
The following stable packages were updated or added to portage in the last
two weeks:
----------
* app-arch/file-roller: archive manager for GNOME[26]
* app-cdr/cdlabelgen: CD cover, tray card and envelope generator[27]
* app-crypt/gnupg: The GNU Privacy Guard, a GPL pgp replacement[28]
* app-doc/abs-guide: An advanced reference and a tutorial on bash shell
scripting.[29]
* app-doc/howto-text: The LDP howtos, text format.[30]
* app-editors/gedit: A text editor for the Gnome2 desktop[31]
* app-editors/ne: ne is the nice editor, easy to use for the beginner and
powerful for the wizard[32]
* app-editors/vim: Vi IMproved![33]
* app-emacs/mew: great MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs[34]
* app-emacs/riece: Riece is a redisgn of Liece IRC client[35]
* app-emacs/wl: a mail/news reader supporting IMAP4rev1 for emacsen[36]
* app-emulation/epsxe: ePSXe Playstation Emulator[37]
* app-emulation/uae: An amiga emulator[38]
* app-emulation/wine: free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix - CVS
snapshot[39]
* app-emulation/xmame: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for X11[40]
* app-emulation/xmess: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for X11[41]
* app-games/americas-army: America's Army: Operations - military
simulations by the U.S. Army to provide civilians with insights on
soldiering[42]
* app-games/armagetron: armagetron: 3d tron lightcycles, just like the
movie[43]
* app-games/asc: turn based strategy game designed in the tradition of
the Battle Isle series[44]
* app-games/atlas: Chart Program to use with Flightgear Flight
Simulator[45]
* app-games/attal: turn-based strategy game project[46]
* app-games/duke3d: port of the original DukeNukem 3D[47]
* app-games/excido: A fast paced action game[48]
* app-games/fortune-mod: The notorious fortune program[49]
* app-games/fortune-mod-bofh-excuses: Excuses from Bastard Operator from
Hell[50]
* app-games/fortune-mod-calvin: Quotes from Calvin and Hobbes Comic
Books[51]
* app-games/fortune-mod-dubya: Quotes from George W. Bush[52]
* app-games/fortune-mod-futurama: Quotes from the TV-Series
-Futurama-[53]
* app-games/fortune-mod-gentoo-dev: Fortune database of #gentoo-dev
quotes[54]
* app-games/fortune-mod-hitchhiker: Quotes from Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy[55]
* app-games/fortune-mod-homer: Quotes from Homer Simpson[56]
* app-games/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes: Extra fortune cookies for
fortune[57]
* app-games/fortune-mod-kernelcookies: A collection of funny lines from
the Linux kernel[58]
* app-games/fortune-mod-osfortune: Open sources fortune file[59]
* app-games/fortune-mod-simpsons-chalkboard: Quotes from Bart Simpson's
Chalkboard, shown at the opening of each Simpsons episode[60]
* app-games/fortune-mod-smac: Quotes from the Alpha Centauri: Alien
Crossfire tech tree[61]
* app-games/fortune-mod-sp-fortunes: South Park Fortunes[62]
* app-games/fortune-mod-starwars: Quotes from StarWars, The Empire
Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi[63]
* app-games/fortune-mod-tao: set of fortunes based on the
Tao-Teh-Ching[64]
* app-games/greedy: fun little ncurses puzzle game[65]
* app-games/gtetrinet: Tetrinet Clone for GNOME 2[66]
* app-games/mirrormagic: a game like Deflektor (C 64) or Mindbender
(Amiga)[67]
* app-games/monopd: server for atlantik games[68]
* app-games/nwn: Never Winter Nights[69]
* app-games/rocksndiamonds: A Boulderdash clone[70]
* app-games/sirius: A program for playing the game of othello[71]
* app-games/spacehulk: A boardgame in the world of Warhammer 40k[72]
* app-games/torcs: The Open Racing Car Simulator[73]
* app-games/unreal-tournament: Futuristic FPS[74]
* app-games/ut2003: Unreal Tournament 2003 - Sequel to the 1999 Game of
the Year multi-player first-person shooter[75]
* app-games/wakkabox: A simple block-pushing game[76]
* app-games/xgalaga: Galaga game clone.[77]
* app-i18n/freewnn: Network-Extensible Kana-to-Kanji Conversion
System[78]
* app-i18n/kinput2: A Japanese input server which supports the XIM
protocol[79]
* app-i18n/scim: Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is a Input Method (IM)
development platform[80]
* app-i18n/scim-chinese: Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) Closed Source
Pinyin Input Method[81]
* app-i18n/skk-jisyo-extra: Extra SKK dictionaries in plain text and cdb
format[82]
* app-i18n/uim: UIM is a simple, secure and flexible input method
library[83]
* app-misc/kdirstat: KDirStat - nice KDE replacement to du command[84]
* app-misc/magicpoint: an X11 based presentation tool[85]
* app-misc/welcome2l: Welcome to Linux, ANSI login logo for Linux[86]
* app-misc/xosview: X11 operating system viewer[87]
* app-office/mdbtools: A set of libraries and utilities for reading
Microsoft Access database (MDB) files[88]
* app-office/scribus: Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Layout program for
Linux.[89]
* app-sci/bioperl: collection of tools for bioinformatics, genomics and
life science research[90]
* app-sci/ksimus: KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automatization and
visualization of technical processes.[91]
* app-sci/octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language (MatLab compatible)
intended for numerical computations[92]
* app-sci/octave-forge: A collection of custom scripts, functions and
extensions for GNU Octave[93]
* app-text/epstool: Creates or extracts preview images in EPS files,
fixes bounding boxes,converts to bitmaps.[94]
* app-text/htmldoc: Convert HTML pages into a PDF document[95]
* app-text/tkinfo: Info Browser in TK[96]
* app-text/uudeview: uu, xx, base64, binhex decoder[97]
* dev-cpp/gtkmm: C++ interface for GTK+2[98]
* dev-db/mysql: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database
server[99]
* dev-db/tora: TOra - Toolkit For Oracle[100]
* dev-dotnet/mono: Mono runtime and class librarier, a C#
compiler/interpreter[101]
* dev-dotnet/pnet: Portable .NET runtime, compiler, tools[102]
* dev-games/crystalspace: portable 3D Game Development Kit written in
C++[103]
* dev-games/crystalspace-cvs: portable 3D Game Development Kit written in
C++[104]
* dev-java/infobus: InfoBus enables dynamic exchange of data between
JavaBeans component architecture.[105]
* dev-java/jad: Jad - the fast JAva Decompiler[106]
* dev-java/jaf: Sun's JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF)[107]
* dev-java/java-config: Utility to change the Java Virtual Machine being
used[108]
* dev-java/java-sdk-docs: Javadoc for Java SDK version 1.3.1[109]
* dev-java/javamail: A Java-based framework to build multiplatform mail
and messaging applications.[110]
* dev-java/jdbc2-oracle: JDBC Drivers for Oracle[111]
* dev-java/jdbc3-oracle: JDBC 3.0 Drivers for Oracle[112]
* dev-java/jmf: The Java Media Framework API (JMF) enables audio, video
and other time-based media to be added to Java applications and
applets.[113]
* dev-java/jrockit: BEA WebLogic's J2SE Development Kit, version 8.1[114]
* dev-java/jython: Java Python implementation[115]
* dev-java/sun-jdk: Sun's J2SE Development Kit, version 1.4.2[116]
* dev-lang/tolua: a tool that simplifies the integration of C/C++ code
with Lua[117]
* dev-libs/atk: Gnome Accessibility Toolkit[118]
* dev-libs/boost: Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source
libraries.[119]
* dev-libs/elfutils: Libraries and utilities to handle compiled
objects.[120]
* dev-libs/hdf5: HDF5 is a general purpose library and file format for
storing scientific data.[121]
* dev-libs/libxslt: XSLT libraries and tools[122]
* dev-libs/qsa: QSA[123]
* dev-perl/DB_File: A Berkeley DB Support Perl Module[124]
* dev-perl/Net-SNMP: A SNMP Perl Module[125]
* dev-php/mod_php: Apache module for PHP
* dev-python/4Suite: Python tools for XML processing and
object-databases.[126]
* dev-python/gnome-python: gnome-python[127]
* dev-python/pygtk: GTK+2 bindings for Python[128]
* dev-python/pykde: set of Python bindings for the KDE libs[129]
* dev-python/pyorbit: ORBit2 bindings for Python[130]
* dev-python/pyxml: A collection of libraries to process XML with
Python.[131]
* dev-util/guile: Scheme interpreter[132]
* gnome-base/ORBit2: ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB[133]
* gnome-base/bonobo-activation: Gnome2 replacement for OAF[134]
* gnome-base/gconf: Gnome Configuration System and Daemon[135]
* gnome-base/gdm: GNOME2 Display Manager[136]
* gnome-base/gnome: Meta package for the GNOME desktop.[137]
* gnome-base/gnome-applets: Applets for the Gnome2 Desktop and Panel[138]
* gnome-base/gnome-desktop: Libraries for the gnome desktop that is not
part of the UI[139]
* gnome-base/gnome-mime-data: MIME database for Gnome[140]
* gnome-base/gnome-panel: The Panel for Gnome2[141]
* gnome-base/gnome-session: the Gnome2 session manager[142]
* gnome-base/gnome-vfs: Gnome Virtual Filesystem[143]
* gnome-base/libbonobo: The GNOME CORBA framework[144]
* gnome-base/libbonoboui: User Interface part of Lib bonobo[145]
* gnome-base/libglade: GLADE is a interface builder[146]
* gnome-base/libgnome: Essential Gnome Libraries[147]
* gnome-base/libgnomecanvas: the Gnome 2 Canvas library[148]
* gnome-base/libgnomeprint: Printer handling for Gnome[149]
* gnome-base/libgnomeprintui: user interface libraries for gnome
print[150]
* gnome-base/libgnomeui: User interface part of libgnome[151]
* gnome-base/libgtop: library that proivdes top functionality to
applications[152]
* gnome-base/librsvg: rendering svg library[153]
* gnome-base/nautilus: A filemanager for the Gnome2 desktop[154]
* gnome-extra/acme: GNOME tool to make use of the multimedia buttons
present on most laptops and internet keyboards.[155]
* gnome-extra/gnome-games: Games for the GNOME desktop[156]
* gnome-extra/gnome-media: Multimedia related programs for the Gnome2
desktop[157]
* gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor: Gnome System Monitor[158]
* gnome-extra/yelp: Help browser for Gnome2[159]
* kde-base/kdeadmin: KDE administration tools (user manager, etc.)
* media-fonts/artwiz-fonts: Artwiz Fonts[160]
* media-fonts/kochi-substitute: Kochi Japanese TrueType fonts with
Wadalab Fonts[161] einfo "${HOMEPAGE} for details."
* media-fonts/mikachan-font: Mikachan Japanese TrueType fonts[162]
* media-fonts/mplus-fonts: mplus Japanese BDF FONTS[163]
* media-fonts/shinonome: Japanese bitmap fonts for X[164]
* media-gfx/eog: the Eye Of Gnome - Image Viewer and Cataloger for
Gnome2[165]
* media-gfx/gliv: An image viewer that uses OpenGL[166]
* media-gfx/gnuplot: Quick and useful plotting program[167]
* media-gfx/gphoto2: free, redistributable digital camera software
application[168]
* media-gfx/qiv: Quick Image Viewer[169]
* media-gfx/sane-frontends: Scanner Access Now Easy[170]
* media-libs/fontconfig: A library for configuring and customizing font
access.[171]
* media-libs/gst-plugins: Additional plugins for gstreamer - streaming
media framework[172]
* media-libs/gstreamer: Streaming media framework[173]
* media-libs/imlib2: Version 2 of an advanced replacement library for
libraries like libXpm[174]
* media-libs/libemf: Library implementation of ECMA-234 API for the
generation of enhanced metafiles.[175]
* media-libs/netpbm: A set of utilities for converting to/from the netpbm
(and related) formats[176]
* media-libs/xine-lib: Core libraries for Xine movie player[177]
* media-plugins/xmms-crossfade: XMMS Plugin for crossfading, and
continuous output.[178]
* media-sound/freqtweak: tool for FFT-based realtime audio spectral
manipulation and display[179]
* media-sound/gnomeradio: A GNOME2 radio tuner[180]
* media-sound/streamripper: Extracts and records individual MP3 file
tracks from shoutcast streams[181]
* media-tv/nxtvepg: receive and browse free TV programme listings via
bttv for tv networks in Europe[182]
* media-video/cinelerra: Cinelerra - Professional Video Editor[183]
* media-video/mjpegtools: Tools for MJPEG video[184]
* media-video/mplayer: Media Player for Linux[185]
* media-video/transcode: video stream processing tool[186]
* media-video/xvattr: X11 XVideo Querying/Setting Tool from Ogle
project[187]
* net-analyzer/libnasl: A remote security scanner for Linux
(libnasl)[188]
* net-analyzer/nessus: A remote security scanner for Linux[189]
* net-analyzer/nessus-core: A remote security scanner for Linux
(nessus-core)[190]
* net-analyzer/nessus-libraries: A remote security scanner for Linux
(nessus-libraries)[191]
* net-analyzer/nessus-plugins: A remote security scanner for Linux
(nessus-plugins)[192]
* net-analyzer/nmap: utility for network exploration or security
auditing[193]
* net-analyzer/snort: Libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger/lightweight
IDS[194]
* net-dialup/capi4k-utils: Capi4Linux Utils[195]
* net-dialup/pptpclient: Linux client for PPTP[196]
* net-firewall/shorewall: Full state iptables firewall[197]
* net-fs/ftpfs: A filesystem for mounting FTP volumes[198]
* net-im/centericq: A ncurses ICQ/Yahoo!/MSN/IRC/Jabber Client[199]
* net-im/imcom: Python commandline Jabber Client[200]
* net-im/licq: ICQ Client with v8 support[201]
* net-im/msnlib: A Python MSN messenger protocol library and client[202]
* net-libs/linc: A library to ease the writing of networked
applications[203]
* net-mail/evolution: A GNOME groupware application, a Microsoft Outlook
workalike[204]
* net-mail/f-prot: Frisk Software's f-prot virus scanner[205]
* net-mail/queue-fix: Qmail Queue Repair Application with support for
big-todo[206]
* net-misc/atftp: Advanced TFTP implementation client/server[207]
* net-misc/gyach: GTK+-based Yahoo! chat client[208]
* net-misc/ltsp-core: LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project[209]
* net-misc/pxes: PXES is a package for building thin clients using
multiple types of clients
* net-misc/rsync: File transfer program to keep remote files into
sync[210]
* net-misc/telnet-bsd: Telnet and telnetd ported from OpenBSD with IPv6
support[211]
* net-misc/tftp-hpa: port of the OpenBSD TFTP server[212]
* net-misc/whois: improved Whois Client[213]
* net-p2p/gnunet: GNUnet is an anonymous, distributed, reputation based
network.[214]
* net-p2p/xmule: wxWindows based client for the eDonkey/eMule/lMule
network[215]
* net-www/apache: The Apache Web Server[216]
* net-www/mozilla-firebird: The Mozilla Firebird Web Browser[217]
* net-www/opera: Opera web browser.[218]
* net-www/straw: rss news aggregator[219]
* sys-apps/checkpolicy: SELinux policy compiler[220]
* sys-apps/cloop: Compressed filesystem loopback kernel module[221]
* sys-apps/coreutils: Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir,
ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities
(whoami, who,...)[222]
* sys-apps/dd_rescue: similar to dd but can copy from source with
errors[223]
* sys-apps/debianutils: A selection of tools from Debian[224]
* sys-apps/hdparm: Utility to change hard drive performance
parameters[225]
* sys-apps/policycoreutils: SELinux core utilites[226]
* sys-apps/portage: Portage ports system[227]
* sys-apps/smartmontools: control and monitor storage systems using the
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System
(S.M.A.R.T.)[228]
* sys-apps/xinetd: Xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd, with
advanced features[229]
* sys-apps/xmbmon: Mother Board Monitor Program for X Window System[230]
* sys-cluster/cppvm: CPPVM: A C++ Interface to PVM[231]
* sys-cluster/pvm: PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine[232]
* sys-devel/binutils: Tools necessary to build programs[233]
* sys-devel/distcc: a program to distribute compilation of C code across
several machines on a network[234]
* sys-devel/gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++ and java
compilers[235]
* sys-devel/hardened-gcc: transparent gcc compiler change for PaX/etdyn
ASLR w/ propolice/SSP[236]
* sys-devel/prelink: Modifies executables so runtime libraries load
faster[237]
* sys-kernel/mips-headers: Linux-Mips CVS headers for MIPS-based
machines[238]
* sys-kernel/mm-sources: Full sources for the development linux kernel
with Andrew Morton's patchset
* sys-kernel/vanilla-sources: Full sources for the Gentoo Linux
kernel[239]
* x11-base/xfree: Xfree86: famous and free X server[240]
* x11-libs/gtk+: Gimp ToolKit +[241]
* x11-libs/libwnck: A window navigation construction kit[242]
* x11-libs/pango: Text rendering and Layout library[243]
* x11-libs/qt: QT[244]
* x11-misc/icebgset: IceWM background editor[245]
* x11-misc/icets: IceWM Theme Editor[246]
* x11-misc/icewm-tools: Convenience package for IceWM control center and
tools[247]
* x11-misc/shared-mime-info: The Shared MIME-info Database
specification.[248]
* x11-misc/superkaramba: A version of Karamba with extra extensions
in-built[249]
* x11-misc/x2vnc: Control a remote computer running VNC from X[250]
* x11-misc/xnview: XnView image viewer/converter[251]
* x11-plugins/wmclockmon: digital clock dockapp with three different
styles.[252]
* x11-terms/gnome-terminal: The Gnome Terminal[253]
* x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme: Gnome2 default icon themes[254]
* x11-themes/gnome-themes: A set of gnome2 themes, with sets for users
with limited or low vision[255]
* x11-themes/gtk-engines: Theme Engines from GNOME including Pixmap,
Metal, Raleigh, Redmond95, Raleigh and Notif
* x11-themes/mandrake-artwork: Mandrake's Galaxy theme for GTK1, GTK2,
Metacity and KDE[256]
* x11-themes/thinkeramik: A cool kde style modified from keramik[257]
* x11-wm/fluxspace: Enhancements for workspace management within
Fluxbox.[258]
* x11-wm/metacity: Small gtk2 WindowManager[259]
26. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
27. http://www.aczone.com/tools/cdinsert
28. http://www.gnupg.org/
29. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html
30. http://www.linuxdoc.org
31. http://www.gnome.org/
32. http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/
33. http://www.vim.org
34. http://www.mew.org/
35. http://wiliki.designflaw.org/riece.cgi
36. http://www.gohome.org/wl/index.html
37. http://www.epsxe.com/
38. http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
39. http://www.winehq.com/
40. http://x.mame.net/
41. http://x.mame.net/
42. http://www.americasarmy.com/
43. http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
44. http://www.asc-hq.org/
45. http://atlas.sourceforge.net/
46. http://www.attal-thegame.org/
47. http://icculus.org/projects/duke3d/
48. http://icculus.org/excido/
49. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/amusements/fortune/
50. http://www.stlim.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20020814005536450
51. http://www.netmeister.org/misc.html
52. http://dubya.seiler.us
53. http://www.netmeister.org/misc.html
54. http://oppresses.us/~avenj/index.html
55. http://www.splitbrain.org/index.php?x=.%2FFortunes%2Fhitchhiker
56. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~crcarter/homer/homer.html
57. http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/downloads.shtml
58. http://unattached.i-no.de/software-misc.shtml
59. http://www.dibona.com/opensources/index.shtml
60. http://www.splitbrain.org/index.php?x=.%2FFortunes%2Fsimpsons
61. http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~alana/
62. http://eol.init1.nl/pub/linux/index.php
63. http://www.splitbrain.org/index.php?x=.%2FFortunes%2Fstarwars
64. http://aboleo.net/software/
65. http://www.kotinet.com/juhamattin/linux/index.html
66. http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/
67. http://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/
68. http://unixcode.org/monopd/
69. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
70. http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/
71. http://sirius.bitvis.nu/
72. http://perso.enst.fr/~vinot/spacehulk/
73. http://torcs.org/
74. http://www.unrealtournament.com/
75. http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/
76. http://kenn.frap.net/wakkabox/
77. http://rumsey.org/xgal.html
78. http://www.freewnn.org/
79. http://www.nec.co.jp/canna/
80. http://www.turbolinux.com.cn/~suzhe/scim/
81. http://www.turbolinux.com.cn/~suzhe/scim/
82. http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/skk/dic.html
83. http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/
84. http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
85. http://www.mew.org/mgp/
86. http://www.littleigloo.org/
87. http://xosview.sourceforge.net
88. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/
89. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/
90. http://www.bioperl.org/
91. http://ksimus.berlios.de/
92. http://www.octave.org/
93. http://octave.sourceforge.net/
94. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
95. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
96. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/
97. http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
98. http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/
99. http://www.mysql.com/
100. http://www.globecom.se/tora/
101. http://www.go-mono.com/
102. http://www.dotgnu.org/
103. http://crystal.sourceforge.net/
104. http://crystal.sourceforge.net/
105. http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/infobus/index.html
106. http://kpdus.tripod.com/jad.html
107. http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html
108. http://www.gentoo.org/
109. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs.html
110. http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/index.html
111.
http://otn.oracle.com/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc817.html
112.
http://otn.oracle.com/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc9201.html
113. http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/
114. http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/weblogic_jrockit.jsp
115. http://www.jython.org
116. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
117. http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~celes/tolua/
118. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
119. http://www.boost.org
120. http://www.redhat.com/
121. http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
122. http://www.xmlsoft.org/
123. http://www.trolltech.com/
124. http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DB_File/${P}.readme
125. http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/${P}.readme
126. http://www.4suite.org/
127. http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/
128. http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/
129. http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/
130. http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/
131. http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/
132. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
133. http://www.gnome.org/
134. http://www.gnome.org/
135. http://www.gnome.org/
136. http://www.gnome.org/
137. http://www.gnome.org/
138. http://www.gnome.org/
139. http://www.gnome.org/
140. http://www.gnome.org/
141. http://www.gnome.org/
142. http://www.gnome.org/
143. http://www.gnome.org/
144. http://www.gnome.org/
145. http://www.gnome.org/
146. http://www.gnome.org/
147. http://www.gnome.org/
148. http://www.gnome.org/
149. http://www.gnome.org/
150. http://www.gnome.org/
151. http://www.gnome.org/
152. http://www.gnome.org/
153. http://www.gnome.org/
154. http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/
155. http://www.hadess.net/misc-code.php3
156. http://www.gnome.org/
157. http://www.prettypeople.org/~iain/gnome-media/
158. http://www.gnome.org/
159. http://www.gnome.org/
160. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/artwiz-fonts.php
161. http://efont.sourceforge.jp/
162. http://mikachan-font.com/
163. http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/
164. http://openlab.jp/efont/shinonome/
165. http://www.gnome.org/
166. http://gliv.tuxfamily.org
167. http://www.gnuplot.info
168. http://www.gphoto.org/
169. http://www.klografx.net/qiv/
170. http://www.mostang.com/sane/
171. http://fontconfig.org/
172. http://gstreamer.sourceforge.net
173. http://gstreamer.sourceforge.net
174. http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html
175. http://libemf.sourceforge.net/
176. http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
177. http://xine.sourceforge.net/
178. http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-eisenlpe2/xmms-crossfade/
179. http://freqtweak.sourceforge.net
180. http://mfcn.ilo.de/gnomeradio/
181. http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
182. http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/
183. http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
184. http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
185. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
186. http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/
187. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
188. http://www.nessus.org/
189. http://www.nessus.org/
190. http://www.nessus.org/
191. http://www.nessus.org/
192. http://www.nessus.org/
193. http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
194. http://www.snort.org/
195. ftp://ftp.in-berlin.de/pub/capi4linux/
196. http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
197. http://www.shorewall.net
198. http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/
199. http://konst.org.ua/eng/software/centericq/info.html
200. http://imcom.floobin.cx
201. http://www.licq.org/
202. http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/msnlib
203. http://www.gnome.org/
204. http://www.ximian.com
205. http://www.f-prot.com/
206. http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/
207. ftp://ftp.mamalinux.com/pub/atftp/
208. http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/gyach/
209. http://www.ltsp.org/
210. http://rsync.samba.org/
211. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/ipv6/
212. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/
213. http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
214. http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/
215. http://www.xmule.org/
216. http://www.apache.org http://www.modssl.org
217. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/
218. http://www.opera.com/linux/
219. http://www.nongnu.org/straw/
220. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux
221. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
222. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
223. http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
224. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/debianutils.html
225. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/
226. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux
227. http://www.gentoo.org
228. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
229. http://www.xinetd.org
230. http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/download.html
231. http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/cppvm/index.html
232. http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
233. http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
234. http://distcc.samba.org/
235. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
236. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/etdyn-ssp.xml
237. ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink
238. http://www.linux-mips.org/
239. http://www.kernel.org/
240. http://www.xfree.org
241. http://www.gtk.org/
242. http://www.gnome.org/
243. http://www.pango.org/
244. http://www.trolltech.com/
245. http://icecc.sourceforge.net/
246. http://icecc.sourceforge.net/
247. http://icecc.sourceforge.net/
248. http://www.freedesktop.org
249. http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/
250. http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/x2vnc.html
251. http://www.xnview.com/
252. http://tnemeth.free.fr/projets/dockapps.html
253. http://www.gnome.org/
254. http://www.gnome.org/
255. http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-themes
256. http://www.mandrakelinux.com
257. http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6986
258. http://fluxspace.sourceforge.net/
259. http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/metacity/
Total categories: 96
Total packages: 5558
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[260]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 29 August 2003 and 04 September 2003, activity
on the site has resulted in:
260. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 384 new bugs during this period
* 182 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 8 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 3837 currently open bugs: 94 are labeled 'blocker', 196 are labeled
'critical', and 287 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Alastair Tse[261], with 20 closed bugs[262]
* Gentoo Games[263], with 15 closed bugs[264]
* x86 Kernel Team[265], with 8 closed bugs[266]
* Gentoo Security[267], with 8 closed bugs[268]
* Patrick Kursawe[269], with 8 closed bugs[270]
* Gnome Desktop Team[271], with 8 closed bugs[272]
261. liquidx@gentoo.org
262.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=liquidx@gentoo.org
263. games@gentoo.org
264.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
265. x86-kernel@gentoo.org
266.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=x86-kernel@gentoo.org
267. security@gentoo.org
268.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
269. phosphan@gentoo.org
270.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=phosphan@gentoo.org
271. gnome@gentoo.org
272.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09-04&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Gentoo Sound Team[273], with 19 new bugs[274]
* Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers[275], with 18 new bugs[276]
* Martin Schlemmer[277], with 12 new bugs[278]
* Python Gentoo Team[279], with 9 new bugs[280]
* Media-TV Team[281], with 9 new bugs[282]
273. sound@gentoo.org
274.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09
-04&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
275. web-apps@gentoo.org
276.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09
-04&assigned_to=web-apps@gentoo.org
277. azarah@gentoo.org
278.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09
-04&assigned_to=azarah@gentoo.org
279. python@gentoo.org
280.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09
-04&assigned_to=python@gentoo.org
281. media-tv@gentoo.org
282.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-08-29&chfieldto=2003-09
-04&assigned_to=media-tv@gentoo.org
==================
9. Tips and Tricks
==================
Using SSH for remote commands
This week's tip shows a less common use of SSH. Most people use SSH to
login to servers or boxes remotely. However, you can also use SSH to issue
commands on remote servers without opening a full login shell.
Note: To use SSH without having to enter a password all the time, use
Keychain.
To issue commands through SSH, simply type the command after the normal
SSH login information (e.g. ssh user@host command). The following example
shows you how to view log files on a remote web server.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 9.1: |
| Viewing an Apache2 access_log |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|% ssh david@www.example.com tail /var/log/apache2/access_log |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alternatively, you could change passwords over SSH (although using public
key authentication with SSH is recommended over passwords).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 9.2: |
| Remotely changing a password |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|% ssh david@example.com passwd |
|(current) UNIX password: password |
|New UNIX password: new_password |
|Retype new UNIX password: new_password |
|Changing password for david |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This should get you started with remote command execution. See the SSH man
pages for more options.
========================================
10. Featured Quote/Signature of the Week
========================================
Featured Quote/Signature is taking a break this week.
===========================
11. Moves, Adds and Changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* none this week
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project.
* none this week
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285. http://www.gentoo.org/news/be/gwn/gwn.xml
286. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
287. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml
288. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml
289. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml
290. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml
291. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml
292. http://www.gentoo.org/news/br/gwn/gwn.xml
293. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml
294. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml
295. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml
296. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@gentoo.org> - Editor
AJ Armstrong <aja@clanarmstrong.com> - Contributor
Brian Downey <bdowney@briandowney.net> - Contributor
Cal Evans <cal@calevans.com> - Contributor
Chris Gavin <gubbs@fudo.org> - Contributor
Luke Giuliani <cold_flame@email.com> - Contributor
Shawn Jonnet <shawn.jonnet@verizon.net> - Contributor
Michael Kohl <citizen428@gentoo.org> - Contributor
Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org> - Contributor
Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@sasaska.net> - Contributor
David Narayan <david@phrixus.net> - Contributor
Gerald J Normandin Jr. <gerrynjr@gentoo.org> - Contributor
Ulrich Plate <plate@gentoo.org> - Contributor
Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@lanzone.be> - Dutch Translation
Hendrik Eeckhaut <Hendrik.Eeckhaut@UGent.be> - Dutch Translation
Jorn Eilander <sephiroth@quicknet.nl> - Dutch Translation
Bernard Kerckenaere <bernieke@bernieke.com> - Dutch Translation
Peter ter Borg <peter@daborg.nl> - Dutch Translation
Jochen Maes <linux@sejo.be> - Dutch Translation
Roderick Goessen <rgoessen@home.nl> - Dutch Translation
Gerard van den Berg <gerard@steelo.net> - Dutch Translation
Matthieu Montaudouin <mat@frheaven.com> - French Translation
Martin Prieto <riverdale@linuxmail.org> - French Translation
Antoine Raillon <cabec2@pegase.net> - French Translation
Sebastien Cevey <seb@cine7.net> - French Translation
Jean-Christophe Choisy <mabouya@petitefleure.org> - French Translation
Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Marco Mascherpa <mush@monrif.net> - Italian Translation
Claudio Merloni <paper@tiscali.it> - Italian Translation
Christian Apolloni <bsolar@bluewin.ch> - Italian Translation
Stefano Lucidi <stefano.lucidi@gentoo-italia.org> - Italian Translation
Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@p1d.com> - Japanese Translation
Katsuyuki Konno <katuyuki@siva.ddo.jp> - Japanese Translation
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@gentoo.org> - Japanese Translation
Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@mail.portland.co.uk> - Japanese Translation
Takashi Ota <088@t.email.ne.jp> - Japanese Translation
Radoslaw Janeczko <sototh@gts.pl> - Polish Translation
Lukasz Strzygowski <lucass.home@pf.pl> - Polish Translation
Michal Drobek <veng@wp.pl> - Polish Translation
Adam Lyjak <apo@cyberpunk.net.pulawy.pl> - Polish Translation
Krzysztof Klimonda <cthulhu@emusearch.net> - Polish Translation
Atila "Jedi" Bohlke Vasconcelos <bohlke@inf.ufrgs.br> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Eduardo Belloti <dudu@datavibe.net> - Portuguese (Brazil) Translation
Jo達o Rafael Moraes Nicola <joaoraf@rudah.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Marcelo Gon巽alves de Azambuja <mgazambuja@terra.com.br> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Otavio Rodolfo Piske <angusy@gentoobr.org> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Pablo N. Hess -- NatuNobilis <natunobilis@gentoobr.org> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Pedro de Medeiros <pzilla@yawl.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil) Translation
Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@ig.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@digitalmente.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
Translation
Gustavo Felisberto <humpback@felisberto.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
Translation
Jos辿 Costa <jose_costa@netcabo.pt> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Luis Medina <metalgodin@linuxmail.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Ricardo Loureiro <rjlouro@rjlouro.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Sergey Galkin <gals_home@list.ru> - Russian Translator
Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org> - Russian Translator
Alex Spirin <asp13@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuz@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Anton Vorovatov <mazurous@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Denis Zaletov <dzaletov@rambler.ru> - Russian Translator
Lanark <lanark@lanark.com.ar> - Spanish Translation
Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@ferdyx.org> - Spanish Translation
Lluis Peinado Cifuentes <lpeinado@uoc.edu> - Spanish Translation
Zephryn Xirdal T <ZEPHRYNXIRDAL@telefonica.net> - Spanish Translation
Guillermo Juarez <katossi@usuarios.retecal.es> - Spanish Translation
Jes炭s Garc鱈a Crespo <correo@sevein.com> - Spanish Translation
Carlos Castillo <carlos@castillobueno.com> - Spanish Translation
Julio Castillo <julio@castillobueno.com> - Spanish Translation
Sergio G坦mez <s3r@fibertel.com.ar> - Spanish Translation
Aycan Irican <aycan@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Bugra Cakir <bugra@myrealbox.com> - Turkish Translation
Cagil Seker <cagils@biznet.com.tr> - Turkish Translation
Emre Kazdagli <emre@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Evrim Ulu <evrim@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Gursel Kaynak <gurcell@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of October 6th, 2003.
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==============
1. Gentoo News
==============
Summary
-------
* Gentoo Linux Performance Metrics
Gentoo Linux Performance Metrics
--------------------------------
On 23 Sep 2003, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez gave a presentation[1] at
HispaLinux 2003[2] where he demonstrated the load-time performance of the
official Gentoo Linux 1.4 release. Gentoo Linux 1.4 for Pentium III, with
and without prelink, were compared with a default Mandrake 9.1
installation on a Pentium III. The results - Gentoo Linux 1.4 with prelink
did better than Mandrake 9.1 across the board, and even without prelinking
Mozilla loaded nearly twice as quickly in Gentoo, and NetBeans loaded more
than twice as fast.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml
2. http://congreso.hispalinux.es/edicion/2003/presentacion/
The conclusions we can glean from this are that the default optimizations
in Gentoo Linux for Pentium III make a significant difference in in "real
world" application load-time performance. Also, prelinking seems to
greatly improve the load time of KDE apps. Gentoo Linux is able to
generally deliver better overall performance than other Linux
distributions because we try to offer the latest and best free software
technologies to our users, like the latest compiler toolchains, and
because we ship pre-built binary packages that have been optimized for
specific CPU models (and also provide an easy way for users to "build
Gentoo from scratch." For more information, read the rest of the
findings[3]. To pick up your own optimized build or release of Gentoo,
visit the Gentoo Store[4].
3. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml
4. http://store.gentoo.org/
==================
2. Gentoo Security
==================
Summary
-------
* GLSA: teapop
* GLSA: mpg123
* GLSA: net-ftp/proftpd
* GLSA: media-video/mplayer
* GLSA: openssl
GLSA: teapop
------------
Description:
teapop suffers from a sql injection in the postgresql and mysql
authentication module.
* Severity: High - sql injection, remote exploit.
* Packages Affected: <teapop-0.3.7
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge teapop; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[5]
5. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106495530324310&w=2
GLSA: mpg123
------------
Description:
mpg123 contains a heap based buffer overflow that would allow an remote
attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine.
* Severity: High - buffer overflow.
* Packages Affected: <0.59r-r3
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge mpg123; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[6]
6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106495181719869&w=2
GLSA: net-ftp/proftpd
---------------------
Summary:
ISS X-Force discovered a vulnerability that could be triggered when a
specially crafted file is uploaded to a proftpd server.
* Severity: High - ASCII File Remote Compromise Vulnerability.
* Packages Affected: <net-ftp/proftpd-1.2.9_rc2
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge '>=net-ftp/proftpd-1.2.9_rc2';
emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[7]
7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106484580207380&w=2
GLSA: media-video/mplayer
-------------------------
Summary:
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer.
A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header, and trick MPlayer into
executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header.
* Severity: High - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
* Packages Affected: <mplayer-0.91 =mplayer-1.0_pre1
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge =media-video/mplayer-0.92; emerge
clean
* GLSA Announcement[8]
8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106484551707056&w=2
GLSA: openssl
-------------
Quote from OpenSSL advisory:
"1. Certain ASN.1 encodings that are rejected as invalid by the parser can
trigger a bug in the deallocation of the corresponding data structure,
corrupting the stack. This can be used as a denial of service attack. It
is currently unknown whether this can be exploited to run malicious code.
This issue does not affect OpenSSL 0.9.6.
2. Unusual ASN.1 tag values can cause an out of bounds read under certain
circumstances, resulting in a denial of service vulnerability.
3. A malformed public key in a certificate will crash the verify code if
it is set to ignore public key decoding errors. Public key decode errors
are not normally ignored, except for debugging purposes, so this is
unlikely to affect production code. Exploitation of an affected
application would result in a denial of service vulnerability.
4. Due to an error in the SSL/TLS protocol handling, a server will parse a
client certificate when one is not specifically requested. This by itself
is not strictly speaking a vulnerability but it does mean that *all*
SSL/TLS servers that use OpenSSL can be attacked using vulnerabilities 1,
2 and 3 even if they don't enable client authentication."
* Severity: Medium - remote exploit
* Packages Affected: <0.9.6k
* Rectification: emerge sync; emerge openssl; emerge clean
* GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=106502088525455&w=2
New Security Bug Reports
------------------------
The following new security bugs were posted in the past week:
* Apache 2.0.47 & mod_cgi: denial of service[10]
10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29893
=================================
3. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Thomas Raschbacher
Figure 3.1: Thomas Raschbacher
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20031006_lordvan.jpg
This week, we are featuring Thomas Raschbacher[11] (LordVan), the head of
Gentoo's printing team and frequent contributer of fixes and ebuilds for
python and DVB. He also serves on the German translation team, including
managing the translation of our beloved GWN. He primarily works on
developing new ebuilds and patching old ones. In addition to his work with
Gentoo, Thomas has provided translation for the Gnome project and patch
work for Twisted[12], as well as some work on smaller projects. He is
quite proud of some of the web development work he has completed using
Twisted, and plans to open source it.
11. LordVan@gentoo.org
12. http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
Thomas is a relatively old hand at Linux, having started with Slackware in
1996. He moved to Gentoo almost immediately on hearing of the project in
August of 2002. Thomas became a developer for the distro in December of
that year, after (as he says) "being too annoying about my ebuilds and
fixes getting submitted" to Seemant Kulleen[13]. Thomas describes Gentoo
as a "damn nice distro that I wish I could do more for".
13. seemant@gentoo.org
Thomas lives in Judenau-Baumgarten, Lower Austria. He has completed
Technical Informatics studies at Higher Technical School as well as his
Matura (equivalent to A-Levels or Matriculation). He is self-employed in
computer sales consulting, including web design and Linux support. He is
an avid martial artist, currently studying Ninjutsu[14] (as well as
studying Japanese). He also enjoys traditional geek fare of Star Trek,
Anime and Manga. In that vein, the favorite quote he shared is from the
Anime classic End of Evangelion (a conversation between the characters
Shinji and Rei): "Then... where is my dream? It is the continuation of
reality. Where is... my reality? It is at the end of your dream.".
Finally, Thomas is active in organizing and attending LAN parties.[15]
14. http://www.yamabushi-ninpo-dojo.at
15. http://www.dagor.net
Thomas does most of his work on a Celeron server, development workstation
and a production web server. In addition, he has a laptop, a Zaurus
handheld, and an assortment of test stations and servers. His primary
development tools include python, sed and grep. He communicates using
mutt, MozillaFirebird, Xchat-2 and MozillaThunderbird. He is also fond of
gnotime, a fully-featured time tracker. Like many of us, his first task on
waking it to check his email.
=========================
4. Heard in the Community
=========================
Latter Days PHP
Back in the days of just a few thousand Forum users it used to be
excessive trigger-happiness whenever triplets or even more counts of the
same post appeared in the Forums. But these days the reason for repetitive
postings (vulgo: postorrhea) were sluggish to non-forthcoming responses
from the database whenever someone hit the submit button under heavy
traffic conditions, and yes, multiple posts can indeed occur even if the
submit button is hit only once. While the moderators of the German forum,
to alleviate the burden a little, have actually started asking people to
point out useless, duplicate, very old and unresponded threads that may be
deleted without anyone missing them, the hardly bearable performance
issues have led site admin klieber[16] to kick off an open discussion
about possible alternatives to the current forum software, phpBB,
soliciting opinions about commercial packages as a potential replacement:
16. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=272
* Migrating to a commercial PHP-based forums package[17]
* Abl??sung von phpBB? Boardprobleme und Co.[18](in German)
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=91142
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=89497
Portage on the Web
With stable.gentoo.org being shelved for the time being, and the package
database on the main Gentoo website[19] somewhat tightlipped when it comes
to comments and status overviews for packages, thrasher6670[20] had the
idea to set up a semi-automated, yet interactive site[21] keeping track of
the content of the Portage tree and offering possibilities to add user
impressions for each package. From what he says himself in the thread he
started (repeated on site), thrasher6670 could use some help with the web
design...
19. http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml
20. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=26313
21. http://gps.linux-lamer.com
* Portage website (the thread)[22]
* Portage website (the site)[23]
22. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=88052
23. http://gps.linux-lamer.com
Non-English GWN Via Mail
Yes, it's possible, even without mailing lists for each individual
language. Thanks to Ginko[24] for his nice little Perl script that
automatically downloads, converts and mails fresh GWN copies whenever they
appear at the Gentoo website:
24. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=976
* GWN automagically sent to your Mailbox[25]
25. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=93279
gentoo-user
-----------
Benchmarking/Tweaking your Videocard
Want to get that last FPS out of your ATI/Nvidia video adapter? Might want
to check out this interesting thread on testing and configuring AGPGART
[26] .
26.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C2
00309301034.18670.beharri%40speakeasy.net%3E
Lightweight FileManagers for Gentoo
Many users were attracted to Gentoo because it offered a lightweight,
"only what you want" type solution for their needs. Likewise some users
enjoy the same kind of desktop. Take a look at this thread [27] for a few
suggestions of some.
27.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C0
14f01c38946%2437650830%240500a8c0%40mrroboto%3E
gentoo-dev
----------
The Great Gentoo Bug Hunt!
Don't bother with looking for easter eggs at easter, start looking for
some gentoo bugs and win some free hardware! Interested in becoming a
master sleuth for gentoo? Have a look here[28] for the guidelines, and
start squashing!
28. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12606/
=======================
5. Gentoo International
=======================
Germany: Reminders for this Week's Events
The Frankfurt area Gentooists managed to sneak their meeting past the GWN:
It was announced, held and over before we looked at the corresponding
forum thread... However, this year's busiest German Gentoo week is about
to start, and we would like to hammer a few reminders home to anyone in
the general area at that time:
* 8 October: Ruhrgebiet Gentoo User Meeting in Oberhausen[29](precise
location description at the link)
* 9 October: K??ln/Bonn Gentoo User Meeting in Bonn[30]
* 11 October: Practical Linux Day in Gie??en[31](featuring a Gentoo booth
and presentation)
29. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=562113#562113
30. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=525422#525422
31. http://www.practical-linux.de
================
6. Portage Watch
================
Portage Watch is on hiatus this week.
===========
7. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[32]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 26 September 2003 and 02 October 2003, activity
on the site has resulted in:
32. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 496 new bugs during this period
* 464 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 13 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 4140 currently open bugs: 92 are labeled 'blocker', 196 are labeled
'critical', and 335 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* George Shapovalov[33], with 37 closed bugs[34]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[35], with 26 closed bugs[36]
* PHP Bugs Team[37], with 22 closed bugs[38]
* Gentoo Games[39], with 20 closed bugs[40]
* Gentoo Sound Team[41], with 14 closed bugs[42]
33. george@gentoo.org
34.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10-02&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=george@gentoo.org
35. gnome@gentoo.org
36.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10-02&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
37. php-bugs@gentoo.org
38.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10-02&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=php-bugs@gentoo.org
39. games@gentoo.org
40.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10-02&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
41. sound@gentoo.org
42.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10-02&resolution=FIX
ED&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Portage team[43], with 25 new bugs[44]
* Martin Schlemmer[45], with 13 new bugs[46]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[47], with 11 new bugs[48]
* x86 Kernel Team[49], with 10 new bugs[50]
* Gentoo Sound Team[51], with 9 new bugs[52]
43. dev-portage@gentoo.org
44.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10
-02&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
45. azarah@gentoo.org
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10
-02&assigned_to=azarah@gentoo.org
47. gnome@gentoo.org
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10
-02&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
49. x86-kernel@gentoo.org
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10
-02&assigned_to=x86-kernel@gentoo.org
51. sound@gentoo.org
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-09-26&chfieldto=2003-10
-02&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
==================
8. Tips and Tricks
==================
Using qpkg
This week's tip demonstrates some basic uses of the "query package" (qpkg)
which allows you to perform get information about installed or uninstalled
packages on your system. It can be used to find package ownership of
files, to find duplicate packages, to list the files installed by a
package, and more.
To get qpkg you need to install app-portage/gentoolkit.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Installing gentoolkit |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|# emerge app-portage/gentoolkit |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now that you have qpkg installed, you can start using it to examine your
system. The first example is figuring out which package owns which file.
This is done with the --find-file (or alternatively --find-pattern option.
Note: To get a complete list of packages and the version installed on
your machine use the command qpkg --installed --verbose.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.2: |
|Finding the package that owns a fil |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|Which package owns /etc/crontab? |
|% qpkg --find-file /etc/crontab |
|sys-apps/vcron * |
| |
|What version of vcron? (--verbose) |
|% qpkg --find-file --verbose /etc/crontab |
|sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r1 * |
| |
|Where's the ebuild for this file? (--verbose --verbose) |
|% qpkg --find-file --verbose --verbose /etc/crontab |
| /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r1/vcron-3.0.1-r1.ebuild |
|sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r1 * |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
To list all the files a package installed, use the --list option.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.3: |
| Listing all the files installed by a package |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|% qpkg --list units |
|Directories were snipped for brevity |
|app-sci/units-1.74 * |
|CONTENTS: |
|/usr/bin/units |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74 |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74/README.gz |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74/NEWS.gz |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74/INSTALL.gz |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74/COPYING.gz |
|/usr/share/doc/units-1.74/ChangeLog.gz |
|/usr/share/man/man1/units.1.gz |
|/usr/share/info/units.info.gz |
|/usr/share/units/units.dat |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The last example shows you how to find which packages depend on a
specified package using --query-deps.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.4: |
|Finding dependencies |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|% qpkg --installed --query-deps mozilla |
|net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3 * |
|DEPENDED ON BY: |
| net-mail/evolution-1.4.3 |
| net-www/galeon-1.3.9 |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: Not specifying --installed causes qpkg to look inside the entire
Portage tree which is probably not what you want.
This should get you started with qpkg. For more options see qpkg --help or
man 1 qpkg.
==========================
9. Moves, Adds and Changes
==========================
Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Brad House (brad_mssw) -- amd64
* Joel Hillster (hillster) -- miscellanious ebuilds
* Rob Cakebread (pythonhead) -- python
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project.
* none this week
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Hendrik Eeckhaut <Hendrik.Eeckhaut@UGent.be> - Dutch Translation
Jorn Eilander <sephiroth@quicknet.nl> - Dutch Translation
Bernard Kerckenaere <bernieke@bernieke.com> - Dutch Translation
Peter ter Borg <peter@daborg.nl> - Dutch Translation
Jochen Maes <linux@sejo.be> - Dutch Translation
Roderick Goessen <rgoessen@home.nl> - Dutch Translation
Gerard van den Berg <gerard@steelo.net> - Dutch Translation
Matthieu Montaudouin <mat@frheaven.com> - French Translation
Martin Prieto <riverdale@linuxmail.org> - French Translation
Antoine Raillon <cabec2@pegase.net> - French Translation
Sebastien Cevey <seb@cine7.net> - French Translation
Jean-Christophe Choisy <mabouya@petitefleure.org> - French Translation
Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Lukas Domagala <Cyrik@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Daniel Gerholdt <Sputnik1969@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Marc Herren <dj-submerge@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Tobias Matzat <SirSeoman@gentoo.org> - German Translation
Marco Mascherpa <mush@monrif.net> - Italian Translation
Claudio Merloni <paper@tiscali.it> - Italian Translation
Christian Apolloni <bsolar@bluewin.ch> - Italian Translation
Stefano Lucidi <stefano.lucidi@gentoo-italia.org> - Italian Translation
Katsuyuki Konno <katuyuki@siva.ddo.jp> - Japanese Translation
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@gentoo.org> - Japanese Translation
Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@mail.portland.co.uk> - Japanese Translation
Takashi Ota <088@t.email.ne.jp> - Japanese Translation
Radoslaw Janeczko <sototh@gts.pl> - Polish Translation
Lukasz Strzygowski <lucass.home@pf.pl> - Polish Translation
Michal Drobek <veng@wp.pl> - Polish Translation
Adam Lyjak <apo@cyberpunk.net.pulawy.pl> - Polish Translation
Krzysztof Klimonda <cthulhu@emusearch.net> - Polish Translation
Atila "Jedi" Bohlke Vasconcelos <bohlke@inf.ufrgs.br> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Eduardo Belloti <dudu@datavibe.net> - Portuguese (Brazil) Translation
Jo??o Rafael Moraes Nicola <joaoraf@rudah.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Marcelo Gon??alves de Azambuja <mgazambuja@terra.com.br> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Otavio Rodolfo Piske <angusy@gentoobr.org> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Pablo N. Hess -- NatuNobilis <natunobilis@gentoobr.org> - Portuguese
(Brazil) Translation
Pedro de Medeiros <pzilla@yawl.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil) Translation
Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@ig.com.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@digitalmente.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
Translation
Gustavo Felisberto <humpback@felisberto.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
Translation
Jos?? Costa <jose_costa@netcabo.pt> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Luis Medina <metalgodin@linuxmail.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Ricardo Loureiro <rjlouro@rjlouro.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) Translation
Sergey Galkin <gals_home@list.ru> - Russian Translator
Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org> - Russian Translator
Alex Spirin <asp13@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuz@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Anton Vorovatov <mazurous@mail.ru> - Russian Translator
Denis Zaletov <dzaletov@rambler.ru> - Russian Translator
Lanark <lanark@lanark.com.ar> - Spanish Translation
Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@ferdyx.org> - Spanish Translation
Lluis Peinado Cifuentes <lpeinado@uoc.edu> - Spanish Translation
Zephryn Xirdal T <ZEPHRYNXIRDAL@telefonica.net> - Spanish Translation
Guillermo Juarez <katossi@usuarios.retecal.es> - Spanish Translation
Jes??s Garc??a Crespo <correo@sevein.com> - Spanish Translation
Carlos Castillo <carlos@castillobueno.com> - Spanish Translation
Julio Castillo <julio@castillobueno.com> - Spanish Translation
Sergio G??mez <s3r@fibertel.com.ar> - Spanish Translation
Aycan Irican <aycan@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Bugra Cakir <bugra@myrealbox.com> - Turkish Translation
Cagil Seker <cagils@biznet.com.tr> - Turkish Translation
Emre Kazdagli <emre@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Evrim Ulu <evrim@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
Gursel Kaynak <gurcell@core.gen.tr> - Turkish Translation
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