Re: Another bug on OpenSSL

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:21:08PM -0400, Paul wrote: That bug was not found by the rampaging libressl people either. Perhaps moving from OpenSSL to NSS would be better if you are that worried about OpenSSL bugs We've tried that:

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Robert Marcano wrote: What about domain and search lines? If NetworkManager will always use 127.0.0.1, it should still modify resolv.conf with the domain name received from DHCP That's actually not always correct from a security point of view. If you set your system do

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Dan Williams wrote: Untrusted networks use WPA too, like coffee shops that don't leave the network open, but write the WPA key on the chalkboard menu or print it on standup cards at the tables. I've seen quite a few of these. You are at least consciously logging into

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Simo Sorce wrote: Why would you care for the domain name as provided by dhcp ? internal DNS views, eg server.internal.corp.com where the search domain gets set to internal.corp.com and server.corp.com does not exist. By default you wouldn't want that as you roam with a

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

2014-04-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, P J P wrote: Similarly, what do we tell users who used to edit /etc/resolv.conf to do in the new system?   We tell users to never edit the '/etc/resolv.conf' file and ensure that the local resolver is listening at 127.0.0.1:53. We should leave a comment in resolv.conf

local dns server and flushing negative cache

2014-04-29 Thread Paul Wouters
To: Paul Wouters p...@nohats.ca Subject: Re: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089767 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hoi Paul, On 04/22/2014 03:57 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089767 See discussion. It would be good to have

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: A completely arbitrary datapoint: dmt:~% file /lib64/* | grep ELF.*shared | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs nm -aDu | grep -c setjmp 79 At a minimum you'd have to rewrite freetype, have fun with that. I'm happy for libreswan/openswan to not use it, if someone

Re: default local DNS failover solution needed, nscd?

2014-04-28 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: Speaking of which, I am not sure how dnsmasq plays with DNSSEC and/or failover, but NetworkManager already has a config option (/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, dns=dnsmasq) that makes it configure a local dnsmasq instance on

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm working on advice on automated X.509 certificate generation during package installation. I would strongly recommend doing it on first service start. I've lived through the FreeS/WAN times and my experience with it for 15+ years caused us (in

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I don't think openssl genrsa 2048 has this issue on today's machines. (I know I saw it with GNUTLS.) I was sceptical, so I tried this on a freshly booted VM: root@bofh:~# virsh start north Domain north started root@bofh:~# ssh root@north Last

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Didn't mean to accuse you of saying that. I do like the idea of asking if you are on a trusted network. For DNS issues we have similar issues. A sane default seems to be that if you plugin a cable or you enter wifi WPA(2) details, you are trusting

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: This seems like a sane(ish) method of doing this. What happens if the hotspot page is down? Why not use a mirror-like setup with yum where you try 2 or 3 mirrors and if they fail then you declare it to be a portal? It has multiple A records matching

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Dan Williams wrote: But another scenario I've seen: older Netgear routers which intercept www.routerlogin.net as the setup page. The instructions literally are: 1) connect your computer to the router with a cable 2) go to www.routerlogin.net 3) follow the setup guide

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: How do you setup DNS over TLS? Unbound has this capability already build in. unbound-control activates via (currently via dnssec-triggerd, in the future via NM) using the keywords tcp-upstream or ssl-upstream. I meant for say bind, but okay. bind

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Dan Williams wrote: Ok, that could be a problem. This is a user setting up wifi on a router they just bought, so it has no upstream connection yet, is not yet configured at all, and they are just following the directions in the printed brochure they got with the router.

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote: One thing I would like to note is that in machines which don't have a hardware clock, I had problems starting bind and unbound, because the date was back to 1970 in each boot, so the root dns key was not yet valid and there were no valid dns

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: Yes. It depends on the trustworthiness of the network and or preconfiguration of some of your own networks you join. Not really: Every network you join, you have to semi-trust. If you don't trust it, why did you join it? You don't always control

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: PS: It also seemed like the proposal was to *bypass* the networks provided forwarders from DHCP. This *is* a serious issue if it's the case. We only bypass DHCP provided forwarders that are broken. We actually WANT to use them as much as possible,

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: So you've gone out of your way to run a daemon but prevent it from working as configured, instead of just reconfiguring it to do what you need. I have to go out of my way to *stop* NetworkManager from running and to configure a fixed IP address.

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: What is a captivity-sign as you so put it? Check for clean port 80. It fetches the url specified in dnssec-triggerd.conf's url: option (default http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt) If it returns a redirect or a page that does not contain the

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: I should clarify. I cache the record foo.work.com from the office, and it resolves differently externally. When I go home, it no longer resolves to the external IP as I'm using the internally acquired record from cache. This currently works for the

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: a DNS server doing recursion don't ask any forwarder That's wrong. a DNS server can use a forwareder for some or all of its recursive queries. unbound+dnssec-triggerd mostly cause unbound to do full recursion but using the ISP nameserver as forward

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Chuck Anderson wrote: I'm proposing that /etc/resolv.conf is never re-written under any circumstances. A local caching resolver should ALWAYS be used and resolv.conf should ALWAYS say: nameserver 127.0.0.1 Cheers. That's a goal I share with you, but... All the magic

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't disagree that there is lots of broken DNS out there. But realistically, we still need to default to using the DHCP-provided DNS servers as forwarders because there are unfortunately lots of circumstances where this is required to resolve

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: we should not do anything - because we don't have a clue about the network of the enduser We know and handle a lot more than you think already using unbound with dnssec-trigger and VPNs. Why don't you give it a shot and give us some feedback on how it

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: That's wrong. a DNS server can use a forwareder for some or all of its recursive queries. unbound+dnssec-triggerd mostly cause unbound to do full recursion but using the ISP nameserver as forward for all queries. oh no - please try to understand what

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf That is the trick currently used by dnssec-triggerd to prevent other applications from messing with that file. Oh crap, that means I'm going to need a really really don't touch this file flag, perhaps a one-way flag

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Chuck Anderson wrote: Okay, so here is where you and I differ then. We need a solution to run everywhere, on every system, in every use case. Sounds like wanting ponies? Obviously I fully agree with a solution that works everywhere, all the time, for everyone, however

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, William Brown wrote: Now can we go back to actually discussion technical arguments again? Actually no. This whole thread has forgotten one major thing ... use cases. That was in response to someone using appeal of authority statements, not factual discussions.

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Dan Williams wrote: That's great. Thank you so much for sharing this information. I'll add it to the wiki page. About the wifi hotspots breakage, I'm still not in the clear. IIUC how they work is, all client traffic is blocked/redirected to a designated server till

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 04/11/2014 03:14 PM, P J P wrote: On Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: It looks like your proposal is going to break things for people using some wifi hotspots.   Why, how? It's a hack designed to handle someone that

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Chris Adams wrote: Unless you have a specific reason not to, you should use the DNS server from DHCP. My specific reason is that I dont trust random strangers. That may be the only DNS server that will work, there may be private DNS info not available anywhere else,

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: If you are running a caching resolver you don't need the DNS information from DCHP (except except for the hotspot issue) at all. For example, dnscache can be used for this. (It doesn't do dnssec though, so wouldn't provide what is wanted for the

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Unless you have a specific reason not to, you should use the DNS server from DHCP. That may be the only DNS server that will work, there may be private DNS info not available anywhere else, etc. Split horizon should still work with a caching

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to said: The advantage of using your dns server is that you know what you're getting. You'll also lose almost all content-delivery network advantages (most of that is mapped to close servers with DNS).

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. It was a comment about ISPs changing TTLs (or other things). DNSSEC can be used to tell you the data might not be authoritative, but doesn't tell you what the correct information is. First, TTLs you

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Second, I still don't understand the point. Are you suggesting it is better to believe all DNS lies than to not know where the lies lead? Not better. That DNSSEC doesn't really solve everythin one might want it to. And hence one might want to avoid

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Simo Sorce wrote: I hope the NM integration will show up at some point. It's really a pretty nice setup. I am using it too successfully. Only occasionally unbound seem to get confused, not clear when, it doesn't happen more than twice a month and systemctl restart

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Chuck Anderson wrote: Yesterday, a new version of dnsmasq was released [2] that adds full DNSSEC support and provides an alternative to unbound which dnssec-trigger requires. There has also been great work done to solve the NTP/DNSSEC bootstrap problem [3]. What options

Re: default local DNS caching name server

2014-04-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Billy Crook wrote: I don't think pointing resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1 is the right answer for this. The functionality should be implemented as a 'hosts' service to be listed in nsswitch.conf between files and dns. For security reasons, you really want resolv.conf to only

Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] The securetty file is empty by default

2014-04-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org said: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:20:36PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: [technical reasoning snipped] Hence: please let's just remove securetty entirely from the default PAM stacks. It's

arm kernel does not support SCTP?

2014-04-08 Thread Paul Wouters
I'm updating socat to run all its test cases, and I'm running into an error only on the arm architecture: test 151 SCTP4LISTENFORK: SCTP4 listen handles 2 concurrent connections... !port 40157 timed out! FAILED 2014/04/09 01:36:12 server[6004] E socket(2, 1, 132): Protocol not supported

Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] The securetty file is empty by default

2014-04-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 07:32 -0700, quickbooks office wrote: This change will not affect logging into the console using the local account and then doing su to get root privileges. What local account ? Is there a problem with logging into the local user

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: we kinda do have dnssec per default. All DNS servers installed per default do DNSSEC. Installing dnssec-trigger makes that even more pervasive. Well, but glibc can't do the DNSSEC client side, can it? Applications that want to do DNSSEC

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: As long as -lresolve (i.e. glibc and getaddrinfo()) can't do DNSSEC it's just not there... You are proposing changing the api of getaddrinfo()? Could luck with that? Yes, applications that want to see DNSSEC results will have to do a little bit

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. I'd be happy to see those go. Those who depend on it though, should see some failed closed behaviour, so their service does not suddenly become more exposed. Paul --

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, in this day and age we should not consider an ACL language well designed if it basically pushes users to use IDENT and DNS for authentication. (And no, don't say the words DNSSEC, nobody sets that up, we don't have it as default, and

Re: f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-07 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: painstakingly hand-weeding something like M*a's ldetect-lst you can get some minor benefits, like doing this kind of distinction where we want to load the native driver for a real card but not qemu's emulated cirrus. You are telling me it is hard to

a stop job is running for User Manager for 0

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Wouters
I'm using a minimal netinstall version of fedora20 for testing using KVM. We very often cycle these machines (once per test, we run hundreds of tests) Regularly, we get tests failing because the VM does not boot within 60 seconds, and seems to hang at: a stop job is running for User

Re: a stop job is running for User Manager for 0

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Regularly, we get tests failing because the VM does not boot within 60 seconds, and seems to hang at: a stop job is running for User Manager for 0 here you go https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023820

Re: a stop job is running for User Manager for 0

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: which is user 0 that is yours, an not only yours https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023820 This workaround solved my problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023788#c2 basically: cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd-shutdown.service

Re: f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 22:02 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: ftp://ftp.nohats.ca/Xorg.0.log [54.323] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 2048 kB [54.323] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Cirrus Logic GD-5480 VGA [54.324] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM

yum install kvm does not install kvm targets?

2014-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
The target install: yum install kvm actually installs only qemu-system-x*86 but not qemu-kvm or libvirtd-daemon-kvm. Should not those be added to the kvm target? Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of

Re: f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: You can't do a text install from a live image, but you can from DVD or net inst. We'd need the x logs to know what was going on with x startup. ftp://ftp.nohats.ca/Xorg.0.log Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-01 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi, I tried to help a friend upgrade his redhat 7.3 server (!) to something more modern. Since his server's BIOS had issues with booting from DVD, I setup a PXE environment on my laptop and booted the net-install (and later the live image) kernel and ram disk. After PXE boot, and leaving the

Re: f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-01 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: You can't do a text install from a live image, but you can from DVD or net inst. We'd need the x logs to know what was going on with x startup. I did not keep a copy of the X log, but it showed no problems. It logged various screens in resolutions

Re: f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

2014-02-01 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: You can't do a text install from a live image, but you can from DVD or net inst. We'd need the x logs to know what was going on with x startup. Using the netinstall's isolinux/ vmlinuz,initrd and pxelinux.cfg file, the machine (physical but also VMs

[perl-Net-DNS/f20] - Updated to 0.73

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Wouters
Summary of changes: 55968d7... - Updated to 0.73 (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

[perl-Net-DNS/f19] (5 commits) ...- Updated to 0.73

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Wouters
Summary of changes: 4de2b17... Add BSD, ISC, and MIT to licenses (*) caf51f2... Perl 5.18 rebuild (*) 3eddd70... Specify more dependencies (*) 59e0814... - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass (*) 55968d7... - Updated to 0.73 (*) (*) This commit already existed in

[perl-Net-DNS/f18] (12 commits) ...- Updated to 0.73

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Wouters
Summary of changes: 924bfee... 0.69 bump (*) 5cb1442... Fix renamed Win32 excludes (*) ebd03d7... 0.70 bump (*) 6d81f44... Review dependencies (*) d7ca4c7... 0.71 bump (*) ebca744... 0.72 bump (*) c1d41bb... - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass (*)

File Net-DNS-0.73.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by pwouters

2013-11-29 Thread Paul Wouters
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Net-DNS: 06d107032a0e6b7fd7ec69bcfb0b7577 Net-DNS-0.73.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

[perl-Net-DNS] - Updated to 0.73

2013-11-29 Thread Paul Wouters
commit 55968d7a7952a423ef3bf71dbc497e6f6c393e23 Author: Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com Date: Fri Nov 29 15:57:45 2013 -0500 - Updated to 0.73 .gitignore|1 + perl-Net-DNS.spec |8 ++-- sources |2 +- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions

Re: BuildRequires: redhat-rpm-config

2013-11-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Adam Jackson wrote: Yes. People hit this _constantly_ in a lot of ways. Like why am I not getting debuginfo packages. The theory is that you might want to build with some other set of macros, which is why rpmbuild doesn't just require r-r-c. I think this is foolish, and

Re: Orphaning ipsec-tools and workrave

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Tomas Mraz wrote: I've orphaned workrave and ipsec-tools in all active branches of Fedora as I do not use them any more. I will take ipsec-tools, as we use it for our interop tests with libreswan. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: $HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

2013-10-28 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: /home/sandro/.local/bin in the PATH is not the default. Or is it new for Rawhide? $ grep PATH /etc/skel/.bash_profile PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin export PATH Exists for a longer time already, added in of the .fc16 builds: * Tue Jun 07

Re: phpMyAdmin: security bugs

2013-10-19 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Robert Scheck wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2013, Paul Wouters wrote: I'm not a really user of phpMyAdmin so if someone who actually uses this package wishes to take maintainership, please do! you noticed, that you pushed yet another version of phpMyAdmin with a *.swf file

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Jan Kratochvil wrote: Workaround of that bug is one line of code, it just has not been accepted yet. And this is the core of the problem. No one has been spending 5 minutes on fixing prelink, yet people have described hours and days of effort wasted because of prelink. If

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: There's no reason to kill the package entirely. Some people still want to use it despite the current issues. So just don't install it by default. Reducing everything down to absolutes isn't helpful. Agreed, there's no reason to kill it

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Hans de Goede wrote: We could change the default /etc/sysconfig/prelink to default to no prelinking, then for people with an unmodified /etc/sysconfig/prelink, this will become the new /etc/sysconfig/prelink and the first time the cronjob runs after the update it will

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Dhiru Kholia wrote: In short, we could not distinguish the performance gains of prelink over the background noise in many (or even most) cases. So, I was wondering if you are aware of any use-cases where prelink provides measurable benefits. In would be awesome if you

Re: Fedora and ECDHE: now supported in OpenSSL

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: since OpenSSL in Fedora from now on supports ECDHE depending software needs to be rebuilt to make use of it as well as libraries like NSS/GNUTLS should do the same and depending packages like Firefox needs a rebuild against refreshed NSS to support it

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Jan Kratochvil wrote: I just do not understand why to give up on that negligible optimization when it brings no disadvantages. Because you did not my previous email? - complexity - complicated prelink blacklists - complicated cron job exclusion with sysconfig - FIPS

Re: prelink performance gains

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Jan Kratochvil wrote: - FIPS foot-bullets I really do not care and do not run FIPS. Your personal views are irrelevant. You are a package maintainer. When other people care about FIPS, you as a package maintainer should care about playing nicely with FIPS.

Re: phpMyAdmin: security bugs

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Sérgio Basto wrote: 3.5.8.2 was released time ago with several bugs fixed: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/959946 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 3.5.8.1 Welcome to phpMyAdmin 3.5.8.2, a security release. I updated all branches in fedora and epel to 3.5.8.2. These are now

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Blocking more retired packages in F20+

2013-09-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Till Maas wrote: I just blocked the following packages in koji for F20+, because they were retired some time ago, but not yet blocked: autotrust They might also lack a dead.package, but I will write a separate mail about this. Indeed. fixed. (autotools was merged

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: I don't get it, either google dhe versus ecdhe performance http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-secrecy.html Let’s focus on the server part. Enabling DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA cipher suite hinders the performance of TLS handshakes by a

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I am certainly not ignoring legal concerns. While there are some patented EC cryptographic techniques, the basic infrastructure including ECDH over prime fields was first published back in 1984 and is not patentable. The IETF has published an

Re: COPR

2013-08-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Or you could just map a directory on the host into /var/lib/mock/result in the guest, using the virtio-9p filesystem feature of KVM. Basically this gives you shared filesystem, but without any TCP/networking involved. NB, works with KVM in Fedora

Re: F20 release name election?

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 22, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps right now. Those that don't care about release names one bit (like me), and those that do. If those that do

Re: A closer look: Obsolete but still included packages

2013-08-19 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: For openswan, the openswan-doc subpackage is not obsoleted, just the base package is. # repoquery --whatobsoletes openswan libreswan-0:3.3-1.fc19.x86_64 That's strange, because openswan is a dead.package. :-/ I'll fix that. Paul -- devel

Mass Rebuild botched up my EVR

2013-08-19 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi, I just noticed the mass rebuild on Aug 3 botched up my EVR for libreswan: Release: %{?prever:0.}1%{?prever:.%{prever}}%{?dist}.1 It should have been: Release: %{?prever:0.}2%{?prever:.%{prever}}%{?dist} The previous version was: Release: %{?prever:0.}1%{?prever:.%{prever}}%{?dist} How

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote: I want increased participation in the creation of Fedora, which is a product with a defined set of software shipped as default. I'm also happy with people working to make it practical to use Fedora as the basis for derived products (such as the spins

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.08.2013 15:40, schrieb Paul Wouters: We can't tell people to re-install from scratch every 6 months. What we need is an apt-get dist-upgrade equivalent. *we have* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum i currently count 450

Re: UML (user mode linux) for Fedora

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: That's just utilities, not the actual binary. Yep, since UML is basically just another special kernel build, I always had the impression that you'd have to convince the kenrel RPM maintainers to add another sub-RPM containing the UML build for it

Re: UML (user mode linux) for Fedora

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Le jeudi 08 août 2013 à 22:35 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : I wonder (idly) if anyone has every tried to package UML for Fedora, and if there is anything in the packaging guidelines that would stop UML being packaged as a regular package?

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com said: ntpdate is slowly being depricated. STIG enhancements for RHEL 6 penalize systems that make use of ntpdate. Also documentation from the NSA Hardening Guidelines as well as CIS Hardening

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Proposed Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ntpdate Having just read man ntpd for -q -g -x, I see that it is a valid replacement for using ntpdate on boot. (I

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote: Have you tried the -q, -g, and -x options to ntpd? Yes, see other email. I saw it and provided we allow large clock skew providing all 3 options, I'm okay with replacing ntpdate. I have been thinking about how to solve that properly. One idea is to

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com said: That's easiest said then done. It takes a lot of queries before you hit pool.ntp.org. And then you have to 1) ensure no one else uses those DNS answers and 2) flush the cache when enabling DNSSEC

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd (fwd)

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Murphy wrote: a. ntpd/ntpdate aren't installed by default with Fedora 19. I don't see the feature proposing this be changed. That's a bug then. It is needed for DNSSEC. b. A default installation of Fedora 18/19, has no means of updating the RTC correctly if it's

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:23:44AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: Finally, for an easy fix for rebooting raspberry pi and co, I would really like to save the timestamp and load it on reboot, similar to the ranseed file. Debian has a package for this: http

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com said: I understand the query. But you would either need to bypass the local dns caching resolver or flush the cache afterwards. The second option has a race condition, but the first has the problem

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd (fwd)

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Paul Wouters p...@nohats.ca said: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Murphy wrote: a. ntpd/ntpdate aren't installed by default with Fedora 19. I don't see the feature proposing this be changed. That's a bug then. It is needed for DNSSEC

Why can't ExecStopPre= be used to abort stopping a (broken) service?

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi, For daemons, it happens that people (or puppet/ansible) makes a config change that causes the config file to not load and be invalid. When restarting the service, it will stop but not start. Ideally, the stop should be aborted. I was looking at ExecStopPre= (which is mentioned in the

Re: Why can't ExecStopPre= be used to abort stopping a (broken) service?

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: If I grok correctly what you are asking for, you are actually looing for an ExecRestartPre=, not an ExecStopPre=. You want somthing that is run before we stop a service when we intend to restart it. But when we shutdown the system and stop the

Re: _hardened_build not affecting libtool-compiled libraries

2013-06-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Note there is still a problem that an LDFLAGS hack was needed in the spec file, otherwise libtool (or something) eats the hardening LDFLAGS. Too often Makefiles contain CFLAGS= / LDFLAGS=, instead of CFLAGS?= / LDFLAGS?= Paul -- devel mailing

Re: sharutils license correction

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 28 May 2013, Petr Pisar wrote: I've corrected license declaration at sharutils package: The only effective difference is the texinfo documentation is covered by GFDL instead of GPL. Why do we even bother shipping an old obsoleted documentation format only RMS can actually use? In

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 19

2013-05-26 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Bill Nottingham wrote: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:19:43 From: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 19 Before we branch for Fedora 19, as is custom, we will block currently orphaned

Re: Concern about FedoraCryptoConsolidation

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 7 May 2013, Matej Cepl wrote: Subject: Re: Concern about FedoraCryptoConsolidation On 2013-05-07, 04:10 GMT, Richard Levenberg wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation While I understand the reasons for this idea of Consolidation I have a concern that very

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 3 May 2013, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Surely if you are mass creating vm's you use ks + cobbler and or spacewalk to do that instead af ISO file. Both of those require you to deploy extra infrastructure, which isn't needed if using the ISO. Different approaches suit different people,

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