Requests for -current (14.2-->15.0)

gmgf · 04-16-2018, 02:20 AM

file-5.33:

ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.33.tar.gz

xterm-332:

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xt...html#xterm_332
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz

Ne01eX · 04-16-2018, 03:28 AM

Exim 4.91 has been released!

Quote:

We fixed CVE-2018-6789

tarball.

ponce · 04-16-2018, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Ne01eX

Exim 4.91 has been released!

ehm, there's no exim in Slackware (it recently switched from sendmail to postfix)...

it is available on SBo actually, so you may want to notify its maintainer, if you like...

ZhaoLin1457 · 04-16-2018, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Ne01eX

You may use initrd into kernel image and load this image via CD-ROM. ;-) Or via USB-stick. Or via another way (For sample, via UEFI).

But Slackware does not provide initrd into linux kernel. Choice warriors way: make its youself. And create report about this. And you will be in the army warriors of Light. ;-)

Also, you may be use different partition for /boot and for /. This is simple and NOT way of warriors of Light.

Go, smoke, choice.

I Going, I smoking.

Standartenführer S, Ne01eX.

These guys talks about full disk encryption, not about the root filesystem encryption.

On a full disk encryption everything is encrypted, from the byte ZERO to MAX. Even the MBR is unreadable by BIOS.

And I think in Slackware is a must to use an initrd, if you chose to use encrytion, have no importance if it is partial or complete.

ziprun · 04-16-2018, 11:09 AM

I would honestly like to request seeing some suckless tools in slackware because they appeal to the slackware principle of minimalist and lack of complexity. They would be an excellent addition to the distro and would require no additional dependencies for slackware
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dwm. dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
https://dwm.suckless.org/
https://dl.suckless.org/dwm/dwm-6.1.tar.gz

st. st is a simple terminal implementation for X.
https://st.suckless.org/
https://dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz

dmenu. dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
https://dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.8.tar.gz

slock. Simple X display locker.
https://tools.suckless.org/slock/
https://dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.4.tar.gz

tabbed. Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications, originally designed for surf but also usable with many other applications, i.e. st, uzbl, urxvt and xterm
https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
https://dl.suckless.org/tools/tabbed-0.6.tar.gz

Suckless is wonderful. Very simple and tiny written programs but at the same time are very powerful. Like dmenu for example can be a very simple replacement for a program if you want open an installed user program and it integrates very well into any windows manager or DE like XFCE not just dwm

Ne01eX · 04-16-2018, 03:41 PM

libgphoto2 2.5.17 (and gPhoto 2.5.17) has been released!

News about libgphoto2:

Quote:

bash-4.4# cat NEWS | head -n 30
libgphoto2 2.5.17 release

ptp2:
* Apple iOSX: handle root directory objects that have ParentObject==StorageID instead of 0
* implement PTP 1.1 Manifest reading and hook into filesystem. currently only supported
by Apple iOS.
* Canon PowerShot CHDK live view support.
* Canon EOS: prepare capture needs to wait a bit on a crucial place to get all events.
might fix some PTP Device Busy reports.
* Canon EOS: split bulk downloads into pieces of partial downloads. This might cure the Error 70.
* Canon EOS: Improved EOS M capture
* Canon CHDK: live preview capture support added
* Added USB IDs:
* Sony A7r III
* Nikon CoolPix L430
* Nikon D850
* Canon EOS M2, M6, M100
* Canon EOS 6D Mark II
* Fuji Film X-Pro 2

pentax:
* Code updates imported from pkremote

libgphoto2:
* Report file changes via GP_EVENT_FILE_CHANGED (hooked up for Canon EOS currently)

translations:
* updates spanish, chinese

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News about gphoto2:

Quote:

bash-4.4# cat NEWS | head -n 4
gphoto2 2.5.17 release

* handle GP_EVENT_FILE_CHANGED event

tarball's maybe found is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/

Don't touch, this is musical "release announcement" (Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries (by Chris Goulstone on electric guitar, 1996 year))

dugan · 04-16-2018, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ziprun

I would honestly like to request seeing some suckless tools in slackware because they appeal to the slackware principle of minimalist and lack of complexity. They would be an excellent addition to the distro and would require no additional dependencies for slackware

Yeah but the whole point of suckless tools is that you're supposed to modify them to your needs before compiling them. I'm not sure how useful it would be to package uncustomized builds.

rjj · 04-16-2018, 05:23 PM

May I request numlockx?
https://github.com/rg3/numlockx

It is a simple yet effective tool to handle the numlock state for those who don't use DEs which already do this themselves.

According to the SlackBuild at http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...earch=numlockx no dependencies are required, and I can confirm it compiles properly (on slackware64-current).

Ne01eX · 04-16-2018, 06:36 PM

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ziprun · 04-16-2018, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

Yeah but the whole point of suckless tools is that you're supposed to modify them to your needs before compiling them. I'm not sure how useful it would be to package uncustomized builds.

All the other distros that package suckless software like st or dwm package them unmodified be it arch linux, gentoo, debian, ubuntu, etc. dwm for example is still very useful even if you run it completely vanilla.

orbea · 04-16-2018, 07:42 PM

Is there a problem with building it from SBo?

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/dwm/

ziprun · 04-16-2018, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orbea

Is there a problem with building it from SBo?

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/dwm/

No, I'm suggesting it's good enough to be included as a default software

Ne01eX · 04-16-2018, 10:06 PM

2Pat:

Into current time, Slackware provide, as minimum, 3 unclosed vulnerables. 2of3 this is: CVE-2017-6362, CVE-2017-7890.

To close this, update l/gd (libgd) library to 2.2.5:

https://github.com/libgd/libgd/relea...d-2.2.5.tar.xz

3of3 I'm still looking. Maybe, this false alarm.

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