Slackers (Slackware current journal) - Slackware – GNU/Linux per SubGeni e Fannulloni

There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release
candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716.
Very close now! But we’ll likely hold out for 2.6.37.6.
a/aaa_base-13.37-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed a dangling /var/X11 symlink on a fresh installation.
Thanks to Joerg Germeroth.
a/aaa_elflibs-13.37-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
a/btrfs-progs-20110322-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Added fsck.btrfs script to fix problem with fsck at boot.
Thanks to gerasimos_h for the bug report.
a/glibc-solibs-2.13-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.13-noarch-4.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-firmware-2.6.37.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-2.6.37.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.37.5_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-2.6.37.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-smp-2.6.37.5_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-2.6.37.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.37.5_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/lilo-22.8-i486-16.txz: Rebuilt.
In liloconfig, make vga=normal the default choice, and add vga=ask.
Use a menu rather than an inputbox to choose Linux partitions in expert mode.
Thanks to bukhansky.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Allow relative paths for -s option.
Thanks to GazL on LQ.
Upgraded to busybox-1.18.4.
a/openssl-solibs-0.9.8r-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
a/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release fixes a security issue where local users may be able to add
themselves to NIS groups through chfn and chsh.
For more information, see:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0721

(* Security fix *)
Thanks to Gary Langshaw for collecting important additional patches from svn.
a/sysvinit-scripts-1.2-noarch-40.txz: Rebuilt.
In /etc/inittab.new open tty1-6 for all of runlevels 1-5.
a/xfsprogs-3.1.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/hplip-3.11.3a-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/man-1.6g-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-2.tgz: Upgraded.
Added Slackware 13.37 mirrors.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
ap/vim-7.3.143-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-2.6.37.5_smp-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-2.6.37.5_smp-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/kdegraphics-4.5.5-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against poppler-0.16.3.
kde/koffice-2.3.3-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against poppler-0.16.3.
l/QScintilla-2.4.5-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to update the sip module API.
Thanks to David Somero.
l/akonadi-1.4.1-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed sqlite3 plugin path.
Thanks to Kris Karas.
l/glibc-2.13-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-i18n-2.13-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-profile-2.13-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/gst-plugins-good-0.10.28-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libelf-0.8.13-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Enabled the static library.
Thanks to Ozan Türkyilmaz.
l/libusb-1.0.8-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched debug log level.
Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger for a link to a patch.
l/pcre-8.12-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/poppler-0.16.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This (again) bumps the major number of the library requiring everything that
uses it to be recompiled. :/ Probably a good idea to upgrade though.
l/qt-4.7.0_7abde40-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed .la and .pc files to remove incorrect references to -ljscore and
-L../JavaScriptCore/release.
Thanks to Niels Horn.
Blacklisted several invalid HTTPS certificates.
For more information, see:

http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html

(* Security fix *)
l/seamonkey-solibs-2.1b2-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
n/bind-9.7.3-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to link with idnkit.
Thanks to Tobias Poschwatta.
n/bluez-4.90-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dhcp-4.2.1-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Create empty leases files in the package.
Thanks to Stéphane Berthelot.
n/ethtool-2.6.36-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to Luiz Gustavo Zuliani for testing ethtool, iputils, mtr, and
traceroute updates and making sure they were bumped in time for 13.37.
n/idnkit-1.0-i486-1.txz: Added.
The idnkit package supports internationalized domain names.
n/iputils-s20101006-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/mtr-0.80-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/openssl-0.9.8r-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed installation of certwatch.new.
Thanks to Thom1b on LQ.
n/rsync-3.0.8-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/traceroute-2.0.17-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/whois-5.0.11-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libXi-1.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Brought back the 60-liberation.conf with Courier New added.
x/xproto-7.0.21-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/gimp-2.6.11-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against poppler-0.16.3.
xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use –enable-startup-notification.
Thanks to V’yacheslav Stetskevych.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-3.1.9-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use –enable-startup-notification.
Thanks to V’yacheslav Stetskevych.
xap/seamonkey-2.1b2-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
This patches a security vulnerability by blacklisting several invalid
HTTPS certificates.
For more information, see:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-11.html

(* Security fix *)
xap/vim-gvim-7.3.143-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/linux-2.6.37.5-nosmp-sdk/*: Rebuilt.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
Added memtest86+. Thanks to Harka Jinen.
Improved RAID partition scanning.
Thanks to Sander de Jong and Csaba Biegl.
Added virtio kernel modules.
Thanks to Mario De Chenno.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Added memtest86+. Thanks to Harka Jinen.
Improved RAID partition scanning.
Thanks to Sander de Jong and Csaba Biegl.
Added virtio kernel modules.
Thanks to Mario De Chenno.
testing/source/linux-2.6.38.1-configs/: Upgraded.

We’ll call this Slackware 13.37 release candidate 3. It seems like most of the
important pieces are in place now.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-7.txz: Rebuilt.
Use “mdadm -S -s” in the init script to fix device numbers.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
Poke the kernel with fdisk after assembling RAID.
Thanks to Csaba Biegl.
a/sysvinit-scripts-1.2-noarch-39.txz: Rebuilt.
In rc.6 and rc.6, use -f when unmounting remote filesystems to avoid getting
stuck in the case of a dead server.
In rc.M, start /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs if it is executable.
Thanks to Csaba Biegl.
ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.66-i486-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded to gnome-doc-utils-0.20.4.
kde/polkit-qt-1-r1145513-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix a crash at logout.
l/gdk-pixbuf2-2.23.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pycups-1.9.55-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/system-config-printer-1.2.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nfs-utils-1.2.3-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Added /etc/nfsmount.conf set to protocol version 3 by default.
Thanks to Niels Horn.
x/libhangul-0.0.12-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/gnuchess-5.08-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded to xboard-4.5.1.
Fixed xboard.desktop. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to the Mozilla Foundation for all the hard work on Firefox 4.0!
extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-1.3-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Complete on ‘sh’ the same as stock bash. Thanks to Robby Workman.
extra/google-chrome/*: Added.
Added a google-chrome.SlackBuild to convert the Google Chrome .deb
packages for Slackware. Thanks to Erik Hanson.
Also added GConf and ORBit2 packages for Google Chrome in this directory.

xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0rc2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/xgames-0.3-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.

a/mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-6.txz: Rebuilt.
Use –resolve-names=never when starting udevd in the initrd.
Thanks to crocket.
a/openssl-solibs-0.9.8r-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/pkgtools-13.37-noarch-3.tgz: Rebuilt.
Accept non-standard slack-desc for installpkg –terse.
ap/dmidecode-2.11-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/zsh-4.3.11-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/mercurial-1.8.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/cairo-1.10.2-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added configure option –enable-tee for Firefox.
n/net-snmp-5.6.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/openssl-0.9.8r-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Make sure that the fixed certwatch script gets installed.
n/php-5.3.6-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added configure option –with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock
which is needed since changing to the mysqlnd connector (the compile-
time default is no longer read from /usr/bin/mysql_config).
Thanks to Gregory J. L. Tourte.
n/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Included a patch from git that will be needed by NetworkManager-0.9.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
x/scim-1.4.9-i486-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Address stability issues with Firefox and other applications.
Thanks to Bruce Hill for the patches.
x/scim-bridge-0.4.16-i486-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Address stability issues with Firefox and other applications.
Thanks to Bruce Hill for the patches.
x/xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-input-mouse-1.7.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/gucharmap-2.33.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0rc1-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
“checking for cairo-tee >= 1.10… yes”
xap/xgames-0.3-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded to xsnow-1.42.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.

a/pkgtools-13.37-noarch-2.tgz: Rebuilt.
Add –terse one-line output mode to installpkg.
f/linux-howtos-20110210-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nfs-utils-1.2.3-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
In rc.nfsd, test for nfsd support in the kernel before trying to modprobe.
Thanks to Vincent Batts.
x/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721-noarch-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed obsolete /etc/fonts/conf.avail/60-liberation.conf.
Thanks to Dugan Chen.
xap/sane-1.0.22-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Configured backends with –enable-libusb_1_0.
Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
Added “terse” installer prompting mode. This does the same thing as the
“full” install mode, but outputs a single description line (with size info)
as each package is installed. I liked this from Slackware versions 1.00
through 1.1.1 and it’s nice to see it make a comeback! I’m betting this
will work better for Speakup installs, too. Thanks to Skaperen on LQ.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Added “terse” installer prompting mode.

a/kernel-firmware-2.6.37.4-noarch-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-generic-2.6.37.4-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-huge-2.6.37.4-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-huge-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-modules-2.6.37.4-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/usbutils-002-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cmake-2.8.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-2.6.37.4_smp-x86-2.txz: Rebuilt.
k/kernel-source-2.6.37.4_smp-noarch-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Reconfigured to add Firewire and FireDTV modules.
Thanks to Gregory J. L. Tourte for pointing out that the old IEEE1394
firewire stack is gone in 2.6.37.
l/libraw1394-2.0.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/php-5.3.6-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release of PHP fixes several security issues:
Enforce security in the fastcgi protocol parsing with fpm SAPI.
Fixed bug #54247 (format-string vulnerability on Phar). (CVE-2011-1153)
Fixed bug #54193 (Integer overflow in shmop_read()). (CVE-2011-1092)
Fixed bug #54055 (buffer overrun with high values for precision ini setting).
Fixed bug #54002 (crash on crafted tag in exif). (CVE-2011-0708)
Fixed bug #53885 (ZipArchive segfault with FL_UNCHANGED on empty archive).
(CVE-2011-0421)
For more information, see:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0421

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0708

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1092

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1153

(* Security fix *)
x/libX11-1.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-input-wacom-0.10.11-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-video-ati-6.14.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-1.9.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.9.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.9.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xnest-1.9.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/gnuplot-4.4.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0rc1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
It is time to push this into the main tree. It’s unlikely that we’ll see
significant changes prior to Firefox 4.0 final. Probably the first security
fixes for the Firefox 4.0 branch will come with Firefox 4.0.1, which is the
branch that we’ll want to be tracking in Slackware 13.37′s /patches. If for
some reason you want to stick with Firefox 3.6.x, it will be tracked in
Slackware 13.1′s /patches for as long as they support it upstream.
extra/linux-2.6.37.4-nosmp-sdk/*: Rebuilt.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Rebuilt.
testing/source/linux-2.6.38-configs/: Added some example .config files.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.

Slackware 13.37 release candidate 2 is ready for testing.
Are we almost there?
a/aaa_elflibs-13.37-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/glibc-solibs-2.13-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.13-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded to tzcode2011d and tzdata2011d.
a/kernel-firmware-2.6.37.4-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-2.6.37.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-2.6.37.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-2.6.37.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.37.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/lxc-0.7.4-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Rebuilt with –localstatedir=/var and added /var/lib/lxc.
Thanks to Audrius Kazukauskas.
ap/mc-4.7.5.1-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed smb (cifs?) filesystem ./configure options.
Thanks to Ferenc Deak.
d/kernel-headers-2.6.37.4_smp-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-2.6.37.4_smp-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gamin-0.1.10-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Install a /etc/gamin/gaminrc with reasonable defaults.
Thanks to Niels Horn.
l/glib2-2.28.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/glibc-2.13-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-i18n-2.13-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-profile-2.13-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
l/gtk+2-2.24.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dnsmasq-2.57-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/iproute2-2.6.37-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/mesa-7.9.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/xlockmore-5.32-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/xscreensaver-5.12-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/linux-2.6.37.4-nosmp-sdk/*: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.

x/x11-skel-7.4-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed wrong package $ARCH. Thanks to Willy Sudiarto Raharjo.

a/aaa_base-13.37-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed a bug that creates /usr/X11R6.bak/ on a fresh installation.
Thanks to Cal Peake.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Updated mkinitrd_command_generator.sh. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
Search for libraries in /lib and /lib64, not /lib*.
a/pciutils-3.1.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/usbutils-001-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Updated usb.ids.
kde/guidance-power-manager-4.4.0-i486-1.txz: Removed.
This is obsolete, and was probably what was causing the
“X11: maximum number to clients reached” issues.
Thanks to specialized and Eric Hameleers.
kde/kdeadmin-4.5.5-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched knetworkconf for Slackware 13.37.0.
l/sdl-1.2.14-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed bogus libmikmod dep from libSDL_mixer.la. Thanks to Niels Horn.
Upgraded to SDL_ttf-2.0.10.
n/mcabber-0.10.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to Melvin Xavier for the reminder.
x/x11-skel-7.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed a bug that creates /usr/X11R6.bak/ on a fresh installation.
Thanks to Cal Peake.
x/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to fix unresolved symbol. Thanks to Luigi Genoni.

ap/lxc-0.7.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
e/emacs-23.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/iptraf-ng-1.0.2-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Created the /var/lib/iptraf/ working directory.
extra/emacspeak/emacspeak-33.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.