[SOLVED] Requests for -current (20151216)

ttk · 11-18-2017, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Ivandi already did it: http://www.bisdesign.ca/ivandi/slackware/SlackMATE/pam/

Furthermore Vincent Batts have provided unofficial packages: http://www.slackware.com/~vbatts/pam/

Yes, they have compiled PAM into the packages (and I am grateful for it! having plans to use vbatt's work), but this does not lessen the maintenance burden and does not address the misconfiguration risk.

By asking PV+friends to maintain more distro complexity, we are essentially telling them to neglect other packages and/or take longer between releases. IMO that is not fair to the majority of Slackware's users, who have no need for PAM and would be exposed to unnecessary risk.

It's ultimately not up to us, of course .. we'll see what BDFL decides.

rworkman · 11-18-2017, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Furthermore Vincent Batts have provided unofficial packages: http://www.slackware.com/~vbatts/pam/

vbatts' server is down and has been for a while, so I had a go at updating the PAM stuff for -current back in July and am currently halfway maintaining it. I just pushed some rebuilds and upgrades to sync it with the present -current tree. There is no warranty, neither express nor implied. :-)

http://www.slackware.com/~rworkman/pam/

ajevremovic · 11-19-2017, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Require freetype >= 2.8.1
2.8.0 had a bad bug with loading 'avar' table. Let's update requirement and cleanup
fifteen years of ifdefs!

I also have problems with (I guess, based on many hours research I've done) freetype - problems on my t420 (Intel i915), XFCE, fonts are too blurry everywhere. Hope that freetype upgrade will solve that.

gmgf · 11-19-2017, 05:22 AM

libtiff-4.0.9:

http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/v4.0.9.html
ftp://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.9.tar.gz

Thom1b · 11-19-2017, 05:59 AM

In rc.dovecot, "killall" is used to shutdown dovecot. But the command "doveadm stop" is a proper way to shut it down (like "postfix stop" for postfix).

Maybe dovecot-pigeonhole can be added to manage sieve scripts ?

ivandi · 11-19-2017, 10:25 AM

/sbin/ip links to libs in /usr:

Code:

bash-4.4$ ldd /sbin/ip
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc45191000)
	libelf.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libelf.so.1 (0x00007f4050f23000)
	libmnl.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libmnl.so.0 (0x00007f4050d1d000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4050b19000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f405073a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f4050523000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f405113b000)

Do we still need a NFS mounted /usr.

Code:

/sbin/mount -a -t nfs          # This may be our /usr runtime!

Code:

# Start the system logger if it is not already running (maybe because /usr
# is on a network partition).
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog -a -d /var/log -a ! -r /var/run/syslogd.pid ]; then
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog start
fi

And some scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 are still sourced.

Cheers

Thom1b · 11-19-2017, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thom1b

In rc.dovecot, "killall" is used to shutdown dovecot. But the command "doveadm stop" is a proper way to shut it down (like "postfix stop" for postfix).

Here is the rc.dovecot I suggest, using "doveadm stop" and "doveadm reload" :

Code:

#!/bin/sh

dovecot_start()
{
  echo "Starting dovecot:  /usr/sbin/dovecot "
  /usr/sbin/dovecot
}

dovecot_stop()
{
  echo "Stopping dovecot..."
  /usr/bin/doveadm stop
}

dovecot_reload()
{
  echo "Reloading dovecot..."
  /usr/bin/doveadm reload
}

case $1 in
'start')
  dovecot_start
  ;;
'stop')
  dovecot_stop
  ;;
'restart')
  dovecot_stop
  sleep 3
  dovecot_start
  ;;
'reload')
  dovecot_reload
  ;;
*)
  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart|reload"
esac

DarkVision · 11-19-2017, 12:28 PM

Just a note:
Building PyQt4 4.12.1 on -current with SIP 4.19.5 may fail. Using SIP 4.19.6dev will fix the issue. Dev info

gmgf · 11-19-2017, 01:34 PM

nettle-3.4:

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/ne...ob/master/NEWS
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.4.tar.gz

libzip-1.3.1:

https://libzip.org/news/
https://libzip.org/download/libzip-1.3.1.tar.xz

gargamel · 11-19-2017, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSlack

I see the updated Kernel!

Thank you very much!
And thank you for all the updates, I love to have postfix and dovecot added to Slackware!

Does anyone know what the motivation behind this is?
Because, not only is Postfix added, but Sendmail is about to be kicked out of Slackware. Is it, because Postfix plays more nicely together with Dovecot? Or has there been any trouble, e.g. unfixed vulnerabilities, with Sendmail recently (which I am not aware of).

Just curious, because I remember the time, when other distros made that move, but Slackware stuck with Sendmail despite its bad reputation for being difficult to administer and patch, and being plagued by a never-ending stream of security vulnerabilities.

So, does anyone know why the switch is made, now? (And please, don't turn this into an MTA flamewar --- I am really just interested what triggered that move right now).

Thanks!

gargamel

Didier Spaier · 11-19-2017, 04:10 PM

@gargamel: probably many people requested that and the ones that don't want to switch still have sendmail in /extra. Not a big mystery I think.

tuxrules · 11-19-2017, 10:07 PM

Looks like we need newer nftables (version 0.8) in -current. libnftnl will also need to be upgraded to version 1.0.8.

https://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/downloads.html
https://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/downloads.html

Thanks,

lopuh · 11-20-2017, 03:54 AM

xap/xpdf/xpdf.SlackBuild

Code:

# Add desktop menu entry and icon
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}
cat $CWD/xpdf.desktop > $PKG/usr/share/applications/xpdf.desktop
#cat xpdf/xpdfIcon.xpm > $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps/xpdfIcon.xpm
cat xpdf-qt/xpdf-icon.svg > $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps/xpdfIcon.svg

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gmgf · 11-20-2017, 06:01 AM

Another new libzip-1.3.2:

https://libzip.org/news/
https://libzip.org/download/libzip-1.3.2.tar.xz

libgsf-1.14.42:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...f-1.14.42.news
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...1.14.42.tar.xz

KewlCat · 11-20-2017, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajevremovic

I also have problems with (I guess, based on many hours research I've done) freetype - problems on my t420 (Intel i915), XFCE, fonts are too blurry everywhere. Hope that freetype upgrade will solve that.

Yes, they are blurry. No, Freetype won't "solve" that, because that's how their newest interpreter works :-/
Meanwhile, you can uncomment this line in /etc/profile.d/freetype.sh :

Code:

export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"