[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-30 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
:51:10AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > To Troy and the rest of the EPEL Steering Committee: > > Thank you very much for granting the request. > > The apptainer maintainers promise to do our best to avoid incompatible > updates in the future. However if we discover ano

[EPEL-devel] Update of minor version of golang-1.19 coming to EPEL7

2023-05-30 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
golang-1.19.6 is now available in epel-testing for EPEL7, an update of a minor version from 1.18.9. I expect it to be promoted in about a week unless karma changes that. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-ba899b9717 My policy for updating golang in EPEL7 is to follow

[EPEL-devel] Re: Update of minor version of golang-1.19 coming to EPEL7

2023-05-30 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-efd9bbf67e Dave On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > golang-1.19.6 is now available in epel-testing for EPEL7, an update of a > minor version from 1.18.9. I expect it to be promoted in about a week > unless karma changes that. &g

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-19 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
while following > Fedora and EPEL update policies, then apptainer can too. Asking you > to follow these policies is not a punishment. If you're unwilling to > follow these policies, then I agree with Troy that copr will be a > better fit for apptainer. > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 1

[EPEL-devel] Re: Incompatible change in apptainer-suid-1.1.8 now in epel-testing

2023-05-15 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
This change has now been approved by the EPEL Steering Committee and requested to be pushed to stable. I expect it to be in stable sometime tomorrow. Dave On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 01:07:32PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > The apptainer-suid package version 1.1.8 now in epel-testing

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-11 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
e upstream maintainers of this. > > > Troy > > On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:29 AM Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > Hi Troy, > > > > If required, the epel8 & epel9 builds could have a patch added that > > changes the default of the new "allow setui

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-08 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
chines on RHEL 7,8 and 9 to use the same > version and secure options. > Users that only have machines on RHEL 8 and 9, would then have the option > to move to the more secure option when the time is good for them. > > Troy > > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 3:30 PM Dave Dykstra via

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-05 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
severity is rated High. Dave On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:17:42AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > DT, > > I am not all arguing that CVE-2022-1184 impact score was incorrect. I can't > imagine why you think that. > > By itself, CVE-2022-1184 is not a privilege escalati

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-04 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
g new. Dave On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 02:14:08PM +0100, David Trudgian wrote: > Dave, > > On Wed, May 3, 2023, at 10:31 PM, Dave Dykstra via epel-devel wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:59:42PM -0500, Carl George wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:20

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-03 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Carl George wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 9:42 AM Dave Dykstra via epel-devel > wrote: > > > > We believe that it is important to apply this change to all EPEL releases, > > for these reasons: > > 1. The general vulne

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-05-03 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:59:42PM -0500, Carl George wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:20 AM Dave Dykstra via epel-devel > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 02:11:46AM -0500, Carl George wrote: ... > > > The Red Hat CVSS score for CVE-2022-1184 has the same brea

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-04-27 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:00:47PM +0100, David Trudgian wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, at 8:11 AM, Carl George wrote: > > The Red Hat CVSS score for CVE-2022-1184 has the same breakdown as the > > NVD CVSS score. Both rate the "privileges required" property as low. > > From what I can tell that

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-04-27 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 02:11:46AM -0500, Carl George wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:20 AM Dave Dykstra via epel-devel ... > > The summary of the CVE is that the way that apptainer & singularity > > allow mounts of ext3 filesystems in setuid mode raises the severi

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-04-27 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 09:09:57AM +0100, Nick Howitt via epel-devel wrote: > On 2023-04-27 08:42, Carl George wrote: ... > > should be modified to set the "allow setuid-mount extfs" option to yes > > for compatibility, even if that isn't the upstream default. > > Can you not set the option to no

[EPEL-devel] Re: apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-04-27 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
We believe that it is important to apply this change to all EPEL releases, for these reasons: 1. The general vulnerability described in this CVE applies equally to all currently supported Linux distributions. The Singularity/Apptainer community has long been aware that making setuid-root

[EPEL-devel] Incompatible change in apptainer-suid-1.1.8 now in epel-testing

2023-04-26 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
The apptainer-suid package version 1.1.8 now in epel-testing has an incompatible change because of a security vulnerability. The change is that a new option "allow setuid-mount extfs" was added which defaults to no, preventing ordinary users from mounting ext3 filesystems in setuid-root mode.

[EPEL-devel] apptainer 1.1.8-1 has an incompatible change for apptainer-suid users

2023-04-26 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
DT is correct, this change is subject to the EPEL incompatible change policy. apptainer-suid-1.1.8 by default disables mounting of ext3 filesystems, because of CVE-2023-30549 https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/security/advisories/GHSA-j4rf-7357-f4cg Most users don't use this feature,

[EPEL-devel] Update of minor version of golang coming to EPEL7

2022-12-01 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
golang-1.18.4 is now available in epel-testing for EPEL7, an update of a minor version from 1.17.12. I expect it to be promoted in about a week unless karma changes that. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-96dbad9cd3 My policy for updating golang is to follow the

[EPEL-devel] Re: What to do about an incompatible update I approved

2022-10-20 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
upgrading the minor version number once or twice a year. There is a golang fedoraproject.org mailing list. Maybe it's enough to announce minor release upgrades there instead of epel-announce. Dave On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:18:30PM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 5:42 PM D

[EPEL-devel] What to do about an incompatible update I approved

2022-10-19 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
Hello all, It is been pointed out to me that I pushed out an update of a package to EPEL that did not follow the incompatible upgrades policy: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-incompatible-upgrades/ That's because I wasn't aware of the policy until it was pointed out to me

[EPEL-devel] Looking for a fedora review of an epel7-only new package

2022-07-11 Thread Dave Dykstra via epel-devel
I asked for a review swap on this on fedora-devel but so far did not get any takers. I'm thinking maybe a lot of Fedora people don't care that much about an epel7-only package. The package is fuse2fs and this is the request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104533 The tool is

[EPEL-devel] fedpkg Kerberos failing for me on el7

2021-05-24 Thread Dave Dykstra
Is anybody else having trouble with using kerberos with fedpkg on el7? It is working for me on el8, and it used to work for me on el7, but now on my el7 machine any time I try to do an upload I get Could not execute upload: Request is unauthorized. and with fedpkg build I get Kerberos

[EPEL-devel] Re: Local mock builds for EPEL 8 (not Next) after CentOS Linux 8 EOL (also, EPEL 9)

2020-12-09 Thread Dave Dykstra
At the moment this is their landing page: https://github.com/rocky-linux/organization/wiki/Contributing and they're working on a home page today for rockylinux.org. Dave On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:53:12PM +0100, Christopher Engelhard wrote: > On 09.12.20 15:20, Troy Dawson wrote: > > Does

[EPEL-devel] el6_10?

2019-12-05 Thread Dave Dykstra
Why are el6 builds now showing up as el6_10? For example: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=39443320 In order to do fedpkg update I had to change the el6 in the first line to el6_10 by hand, otherwise I get an error Could not execute update: Could not generate update

[EPEL-devel] Re: What to do about old packages in epel8-playground

2019-11-04 Thread Dave Dykstra
It seems to be worse than that. When I tried around 2 weeks ago, building a version in epel8-playground blocked building the same version in epel8. https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8925 I did similar builds earlier and didn't have the problem. I have packages.cfg that targets epel8 in the

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-16 Thread Dave Dykstra
Dawson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 7:18 AM Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > So that did get the epel8-playground branch created for me, in this > > issue: > > https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/15267 > > > > I was able to successfully

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-16 Thread Dave Dykstra
g fedpkg --release epel8 build but that just moved it over to the epel8 branch; when used with --skip-nvr-check it said Building singularity-3.3.0-1.el8 for epel8-candidate Can you figure out what's still not right? Dave On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 05:47:57PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > Troy, >

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-15 Thread Dave Dykstra
issue, > then something is wrong with your fedpkg. > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:25 PM Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > Hi Troy! > > > > I created my branch for singularity from epel8, but that wouldn't make a > > difference, would it? When I do fedpkg push from

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
you want. > > Troy > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:17 PM Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > I have fedpkg-1.37-4.el7, the latest version. My yum log shows I > > updated it from 1.37-2 on August 6 an hour and a half before I started > &g

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-12 Thread Dave Dykstra
, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:01:47AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 8/8/19 11:40 AM, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > Stephen, > > > > The package is singularity. > > > > The term "branch" in this context is not very clear to me. All I know > > is that there's no git

[EPEL-devel] Re: how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-08 Thread Dave Dykstra
ogen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 15:10, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > I don't think I understand how epel8-playground is envisioned to be > > used. I did the fedpkg request-branch epel8 and got it created for my > > package. I also ran fedpkg request-branch epel8-pla

[EPEL-devel] how to use epel8-playground?

2019-08-06 Thread Dave Dykstra
I don't think I understand how epel8-playground is envisioned to be used. I did the fedpkg request-branch epel8 and got it created for my package. I also ran fedpkg request-branch epel8-playground as in the script below, but that was rejected: Could not execute request_branch: You cannot