Slackware 13 and the recent Firefox vulnerability

GrapefruiTgirl · 03-31-2010, 11:56 AM

I haven't no, but I haven't checked Slackpkg update yet for today (I assume you have checked something like this, or your last post would be different

).. Maybe something could be gleaned from lurking in the IRC channel? I'm not big on IRC so I for one will wait patiently.

Sasha

Lufbery · 03-31-2010, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

Maybe something could be gleaned from lurking in the IRC channel? I'm not big on IRC so I for one will wait patiently.

Sasha

Yeah, lurking on IRC may be the way to go. I'm mostly just curious as security updates tend to come out pretty quickly most of the time.

Regards,

GrapefruiTgirl · 03-31-2010, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mutexe

Sorry to hijack thread, but:

Code:

ARCH=${ARCH:-i686}

Does this mean the slackbuild wont work on my 32 bit machine?

Last I checked, the average Slackbuild takes into account i486, i686, or x86_64 depending on your $ARCH setting; if no preconfigured $ARCH on your system (i.e. you haven't defined it) it should default to i486 which is for 32bit generic builds.

And, the Slackbuild will do everything *except* install the finished package.

It will terminate with something like:

Code:

Package /some/output/path/blah-version-arch-123.tgz created.

after which you just do:

Code:

installpkg /some/output/path/blah-version-arch-123.tgz

Sasha

GazL · 03-31-2010, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lufbery

Hi all,

While it is possible (and frankly easy) to roll my own updated Firefox using a new source file and the SlackBuild script in the sources, it would be nice to have an official update.

Has anyone had any word?

The changelog hasn't moved since the 16th. I must admit I'm a little surprised that a bug fix as important as this one hasn't be fixed yet, but I guess this is just one of the drawbacks of running a distro that relies on just one man. Maybe Pat's taking a few weeks off or something.

Alien Bob · 03-31-2010, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

The changelog hasn't moved since the 16th. I must admit I'm a little surprised that a bug fix as important as this one hasn't be fixed yet, but I guess this is just one of the drawbacks of running a distro that relies on just one man. Maybe Pat's taking a few weeks off or something.

Check the ChangeLog.txt in a few minutes, Firefox update will be in there as well as some other niceties.

Eric

brianL · 03-31-2010, 03:49 PM

Not yet...patience

damgar · 03-31-2010, 03:55 PM

The number of hits on the changelog's server is probably preventing update at this point!

Alien Bob · 03-31-2010, 04:02 PM

The sync out to the mirrors is not yet complete, it will take a while to become visible I guess.

Eric

brianL · 03-31-2010, 05:16 PM

OK now. ChangeLogs changed. Your patience has been rewarded.

brianL · 03-31-2010, 05:18 PM

Spoke too soon. Not on mirrors yet.

damgar · 03-31-2010, 06:00 PM

Updated on my mirror is complete!

brianL · 03-31-2010, 06:12 PM

And mine (tds).

gegechris99 · 04-01-2010, 03:08 AM

Hello,

Am I the only one, but when I check Changelog for -current 32-bits on slackware site, there is no mention of any change since 16th March?

ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/s.../ChangeLog.txt

GazL · 04-01-2010, 03:21 AM

Says 31st March here. Try force refreshing the page. (shift-refresh or ctrl-F5 in firefox)

gegechris99 · 04-01-2010, 03:54 AM

Strange, I emptied my cache in Firefox and also force refresh and still no update from "official" slackware changelog.

However I can see the updated changelogs on some random mirrors:

ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackware.../ChangeLog.txt
ftp://ftp.slackware.pl/pub/slackware.../ChangeLog.txt
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/s.../ChangeLog.txt

I also came upon mirrors in the process of being updated (at time of writing this post) or for which mirroring was aborted (extra/ is updated on 31st March but other files/directories are not).

ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/slackw...kware-current/

Maybe it's just that mirroring takes some time. But I'm still wondering why I can't see the "official" updated Changelog file.