Re: [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default

2006-07-16 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec It would be worthwhile considering making this a default. What are people's thoughts?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default

2006-07-16 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday 16 July 2006 10:07, Josh Saddler wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec It would be worthwhile considering making this a default. What are people's thoughts?

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.1.1 testing/stablization and glibc 2.4

2006-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:18 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Should arch testers start working with 4.1.1 then? And do you want bugs to block #117482? Arch testers should contact their architecture's leads or Release Engineering Architecture Coordinator. As for bug reports,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default

2006-07-16 Thread Drake Wyrm
Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not 100% sure about the noexec part as that might break upx which calls /proc/self/exe as part of it's decompresser routines. /proc/self/exe is a symlink, and the permissions of symlinks aren't used for anything. It's less than trivial (and I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default

2006-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2006 13:41, Ned Ludd wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 17:45 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.1.1 testing/stablization and glibc 2.4

2006-07-16 Thread R Hill
(apologies in advance if this goes through twice) Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:18 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Should arch testers start working with 4.1.1 then? And do you want bugs to block #117482? Arch testers should contact their architecture's leads or Release

[gentoo-dev] pybugz - python command line interface to bugzilla

2006-07-16 Thread Alastair Tse
Hi All, As a little weekend project, I wrote a command line interface to bugzilla in Python that is targetted to Gentoo's bugzilla (but also generalisable to other bugzillas with a little code modification). It can do the following: * search bugzilla and output a table of bugs: bugz search

Re: [gentoo-dev] pybugz - python command line interface to bugzilla

2006-07-16 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alastair Tse wrote: Hi All, As a little weekend project, I wrote a command line interface to bugzilla in Python that is targetted to Gentoo's bugzilla (but also generalisable to other bugzillas with a little code modification). It can do the

[gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce a new addition to the perl team (no, not that kind of addition - Dr. says that's in September folks;). You may know him from such bugzilla favorites as libeperl dies on `awk` and libwww-perl has incorrect RDEPEND, or under his

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment.This is a new ebuld.So my suggestion is to add a new variable to distutils.eclass, e.g. SETUP.PY, if it's set, then use it, otherwise let it defaults to setup.py.Looking forward to hear your feedback on this.-- Zhang Le,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Peter Gordon
Welcome, Yuval! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Zhang Le wrote: Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment. This is a new ebuld. So my suggestion is to add a new variable to distutils.eclass, e.g. SETUP.PY, if it's set, then use it, otherwise let it defaults to setup.py. what about making a simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] pybugz - python command line interface to bugzilla

2006-07-16 Thread Jakub Moc
Alastair Tse wrote: You can get it either via my portage overlay in: http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/liquidx/app-admin/pybugz or as a python distutils compat tarball in http://media.liquidx.net/static/pybugz/pybugz-0.5.tar.gz Cool! Any reason why not commit it - at least package.masked? ;)

Re: [gentoo-dev] pybugz - python command line interface to bugzilla

2006-07-16 Thread Alastair Tse
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 20:33 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Alastair Tse wrote: You can get it either via my portage overlay in: http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/liquidx/app-admin/pybugz or as a python distutils compat tarball in http://media.liquidx.net/static/pybugz/pybugz-0.5.tar.gz Cool!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Roy Bamford
Welcome yuval. Regards, Roy bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: pybugz - python command line interface to bugzilla

2006-07-16 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Alastair Tse wrote: I know there's gentoo-bugger, which is great, but it's in perl and I couldn't figure out how to modify the output to suit my needs. yeah gentoo-bugger was interactive, this one is better :) I really like it, thank you. Here's the README attached if you're interested in how

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 10 July 2006 01:51, Ryan Hill wrote: No, that would be a major pain in the ass for anyone wanting to use -fast-math, which does have legitimate uses. I want to pose here that -ffast-math has NO LEGITIMATE use as a global CFLAG. In some apps it doesn't matter as they don't use math.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Cummings wrote: I'm happy to announce a new addition to the perl team (no, not that kind of addition - Dr. says that's in September folks;). You may know him from such bugzilla favorites as libeperl dies on `awk` and libwww-perl has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:32, Ryan Hill wrote: If yes, why ? And what is your better idea ? I prefer a filter-flags with a ewarn (or elog, haven't read that thread yet ;)) message. * The -ffast-math option is known to break this package and has been filtered from your CFLAGS. Link to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Jakub Moc
Michael Cummings wrote: I'm happy to announce a new addition to the perl team Welcome! Perl, huh? :P http://fastar.detonate.net/ftp/images/matrixse/18/6.jpg -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCEBA3D9E

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Paul de Vrieze wrote: My argument is that we must not filter -ffast-math or any other dangerous cflags. The reason being that people will request more filters for all packages that don't work with it. Many users will either ignore or miss the warning messages. Filtering the flag basically

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Alastair Tse
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:49 +0800, Zhang Le wrote: Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment. This is a new ebuld. I agree with Stefan, just put a symlink in from whatever their distutils install script is to setup.py in src_unpack(). This seems to be such

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.1.1 testing/stablization and glibc 2.4

2006-07-16 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: Just an update - I've finished most major desktop stuff for x86 without any problems. I'm moving onto stuff that's already on the tracker and is fixed in testing but not stable. Rather than open and track a ton of new bugs, I'd like to reopen the original ~arch bugs and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-07-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:55:57 +0200 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The dev manual is *wrong*. No, the devmanual reflects what's actually being done, rather than an impractical definition that was written years ago that no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

2006-07-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 15 June 2006 20:17, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: I have to agree that I have never understood the need for the distinction between herd and team. It does not seem to add anything, I guess some people do not like being referred to as a herd may be? It really doesn't bother me. I think

[gentoo-dev] [Treecleaners - More Cowbell]

2006-07-16 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MASKINGS: - --- media-gfx/gtksee - Mr. Bones requested this be removed; no update since Nov 2004. Plenty of other image viewers out there, only uses gtk1 package.mask: # Michael

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
On 7/17/06, Alastair Tse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:49 +0800, Zhang Le wrote: Some packages don't provide standard setup.py. Take a look at the attachment. This is a new ebuld.I agree with Stefan, just put a symlink in from whatever their distutils install script is to

[gentoo-portage-dev] Porage API Documentation Proposal

2006-07-16 Thread Chris White
Hi all, I had a discussion yesterday with the folks and #gentoo-portage regarding API documentation using epydoc and inline custom doc strings. Attached is a proposal of what I believe encompasses a majority of the discussion. Suggestions, comments, etc. are welcome. My standard gentoo account

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Porage API Documentation Proposal

2006-07-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:12:25AM +0900, Chris White wrote: This document is meant to serve as a proposal for the documentation of portage code using epydoc[1] and custom doc blocks. epytext actually- that's what relies on, and is supported by other doc manglers. 2. Other portage API

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Porage API Documentation Proposal

2006-07-16 Thread Chris White
epytext actually- that's what relies on, and is supported byother doc manglers. Change noted in the attached proposal Bad idea.doc strings rules for doc manglers, the base docstringbleeds through to derivative methods iff the prototype hasn't been mangled.So... you state in the base method, I