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Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:05, Alec Warner wrote:
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>>Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as
>>#gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it.
>>We talked about adding new functional
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:05, Alec Warner wrote:
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> Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as
> #gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it.
> We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section
> to the ebuild or to the metadat
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Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
| solution is done now, in the changelog, to be viewed by users. Metadata
| ideas were not liked because metadata is not versioned and the parsing
| would not be easy.
The metadata dtd explicitly supports versioning. It loo
Maurice van der Pot wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:05:49PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as
#gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it.
We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:05:49PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as
> #gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it.
> We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section
> to the ebuild or to the m
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:23 +0200, Stefan Cornelius wrote:
> app-text/pstotext has a serious remote vulnerability that allows to
> execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. It appears to be
> unmaintained at the moment.
>
> If anyone out there is able to take this on and patch it (honest
maillog: 27/07/2005-10:00:52(-0400): Alec Joseph Warner types
> I would be very supportive of A. Just a note in the gentoo changelog
> saying Warning: this upgrade could cause problems, see the project
> homepage for details.
+1 here
--
/Georgi Georgiev / "...[Linux's] capacity to talk
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:19, Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
> Gentoo is a distribution and there is some responsibility to provide users
> upgrade paths when packages switch versions. Gentoo isn't just portage,
> IMHO.
Perhaps the first thing you've ever said that I've agreed with right off
the b
Simon Stelling wrote:
Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
to get you upgrade information. While I can see a great benefit in
putting important information into the changelog, I really can't see why
portage should provide functions to read a changelog, when nearly all
packages provide the same informati
Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
>> to get you upgrade information. While I can see a great benefit in
>> putting important information into the changelog, I really can't see why
>> portage should provide functions to read a changelog, when nearly all
>> packages provide the same information on their home
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Brian D. Harring wrote:
> Vapier had suggested yanking (on unmerge, not replacement) any
> config_protected file that has the same md5/mtime as what it was
> originally merged with.
As and end-user, that would be mana from heaven. :)
Nathan
-B
Simon Stelling wrote:
Hi,
Duncan wrote:
and see what's up, or one can visit the website and check it out there,
but for such a critical part of a Gentoo machine's infrastructure, one
would certainly wish for something a bit easier than either of these.
Erm, is that a joke? You want an ea
Michael Cummings wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:13:12 +0200
>Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Please don't make portage a news reader.
>>
>>
>
>Compelling - I tend to agree. It'd be nice if some python-wise
>individual(group) wrote a tool that could interact with the portage a
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:13:12 +0200
Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please don't make portage a news reader.
Compelling - I tend to agree. It'd be nice if some python-wise
individual(group) wrote a tool that could interact with the portage api
enough to get the update list to see wha
Hi,
Duncan wrote:
> and see what's up, or one can visit the website and check it out there,
> but for such a critical part of a Gentoo machine's infrastructure, one
> would certainly wish for something a bit easier than either of these.
Erm, is that a joke? You want an easier way than browsing t
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:16:53 -0700
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Maybe what's needed to address #2 is simply to include a separate
> portage changelog file, somewhere within the tree, possibly as its own
> package, or in the profiles root dir, along with the global
> package.mask, and use.
app-text/pstotext has a serious remote vulnerability that allows to
execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. It appears to be
unmaintained at the moment.
If anyone out there is able to take this on and patch it (honestly,
patch is small), that would be much appreciated, the bug number i
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