Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 12
[Posted March 23, 2004 by ris]
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| Yuji Kosugi <carlos-AT-gentoo.org> |
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| [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 12 |
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| Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:35:07 -0500 |
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of March 22nd, 2004.
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1. Gentoo News
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Security-only updates and stackable profiles
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This week, two features on the 2004.1 Feature Request List[1] were added
to Gentoo.
1.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.1/releng/feature-request.xml
The first, a feature often requested by users, is security-only updates.
Until now, emerge -u world was the only choice for users who wanted to
update their system in one fell swoop. While useful to many users, others
didn't want to keep up with all of Gentoo's high-pace release cycles, and
only wanted to install security-related updates, having to scan the
security updates every now and then to do so. Now glsa-check, part of the
gentoolkit automates this process. Users can now use this command to
automatically update the system with security-related updates only. Please
note, however, that this tool is completely new and meant to test the
functionality before it is propagated into Portage itself. For more
information, read the Portage GLSA Integration Document[2].
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml
The other improvement was made under the hood, and won't change Gentoo's
functionality or the way most users interact with the system, but succeed
in decreasing the distribution's bloat. This new feature is the addition
of stackable profiles. Historically, Gentoo has used profiles, residing in
/usr/portage/profiles to describe the system; the most commonly used have
been default-x86-1.4 and default-x86-2004.0. Profiles contain a set of
packages that every Gentoo system using the profile in question should
have installed, a set of mappings from virtual packages to their default
packages, and a mapping of packages that provide various USE flags once
installed. However, it was noticed that these profiles had significant
overlap between them, so cascading (or stackable) profiles were
implemented. For more information, read the Gentoo Cascading/Stackable
Profiles Document[3].
3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/cascading-profiles.xml
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2. Gentoo Security
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Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
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Three vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL via a commercial test
suite for the TLS protocol developed by Codenomicon Ltd.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[4]
4. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200403-03.xml
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3. Heard in the Community
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gentoo-user
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Cloning Linux Machines
Have a need to create many identical Linux machines? One poster on the
gentoo-user list did.Read here[5] for some usefuladvice on doing a mass
Linux rollout.
5. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/71626
gentoo-dev
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Compiling java programs.
As java should (theoretically at least) create identical binaries on the
same desktops, why are we distributing them as source as opposed to
binaries? Well this was the question asked here[6] this week. Cruise on
over for a couple of reasons why and why not.
6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/16735/
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4. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[7]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 12 March 2004 and 18 March 2004, activity on the
site has resulted in:
7. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 577 new bugs during this period
* 333 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 13 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 5337 currently open bugs: 126 are labeled 'blocker', 207 are
labeled 'critical', and 435 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Jeremy Huddleston[8], with 26 closed bugs[9]
* Java Team[10], with 25 closed bugs[11]
* Gentoo KDE team[12], with 19 closed bugs[13]
* Gentoo X-windows Packagers[14], with 18 closed bugs[15]
* AMD64 Porting Team[16], with 18 closed bugs[17]
8. eradicator@gentoo.org
9.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&chfieldto=2004-03-18&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
10. java@gentoo.org
11.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&chfieldto=2004-03-18&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
12. kde@gentoo.org
13.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&chfieldto=2004-03-18&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
14. xfree@gentoo.org
15.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&chfieldto=2004-03-18&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=xfree@gentoo.org
16. amd64@gentoo.org
17.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&chfieldto=2004-03-18&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* AMD64 Porting Team[18], with 29 new bugs[19]
* Core System Packages Team[20], with 19 new bugs[21]
* Gentoo X-windows Packagers[22], with 14 new bugs[23]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[24], with 12 new bugs[25]
* Benjamin Coles[26], with 11 new bugs[27]
18. amd64@gentoo.org
19.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&
chfieldto=2004-03-18&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
20. base-system@gentoo.org
21.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&
chfieldto=2004-03-18&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
22. xfree@gentoo.org
23.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&
chfieldto=2004-03-18&assigned_to=xfree@gentoo.org
24. gnome@gentoo.org
25.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&
chfieldto=2004-03-18&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
26. sj7trunks@gentoo.org
27.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-03-12&
chfieldto=2004-03-18&assigned_to=sj7trunks@gentoo.org
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5. Tips and Tricks
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Using ulimit
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This week's tip introduces ulimit -- a command to define system resource
limits. As a user, you can create self-imposed limits to prevent processes
from taking up too much CPU time or memory.
To view all available resource limits, type ulimit -a. This command shows
the limits the system administrator has imposed on your account. You can
lower these limits, but you can't increase them. Many accounts will have
'unlimited' listed. If so, here are some useful things you can do with
ulimit:
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| Code Listing 5.1: |
| Preventing core files |
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|% ulimit -c 0 |
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| Code Listing 5.2: |
| Preventing Files larger than 25 MB |
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|% ulimit -f 25600 |
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Since ulimit is a builtin shell command, see your shell manual page for
more information (e.g. man bash, man zsh, etc.).
Note: System administrators can impose system-wide limits using
/etc/limits. See man limits for more information.
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6. Moves, Adds, and Changes
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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:
* Camille Huot (cam) - French documentation
Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* none this week
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