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Looks like there was another minor update to the Slackware-current changelogs.  Here it is:

Tue Aug 29 06:24:26 CDT 2006
a/util-linux-2.12r-i486-4.tgz: Fixed incorrect permissions on /var/lock.
Thanks to Steven Robson.
f/linux-howtos-20060829-noarch-1.tgz: Updated the HOWTOs again. I guess back
in February this must have been looking ready to release.
Thanks to Szymczak Artur for noticing the HOWTOs were stale.
x/x11-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz: Reverted the ATI hang patch after problem reports.
If you were helped by the patch it’ll be held in /extra for the release so
that hopefully everyone can enjoy a working ATI card.
Thanks again to Mark Canter, as this is a real problem but the patch does
seem to introduce some new issues of its own. It’s good to have an
alternate driver just in case, though.
x/x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xdmx-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xnest-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xvfb-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz: Recompiled.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.09-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.09-noarch-1.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
extra/x11-radeon-patched/x11-radeon-patched-6.9.0-i486-1.tgz:
Here’s the patched radeon module from the -9 X.Org Slackware packages.
There’s a README file included with it explaining what it is for with
references to a discussion of the issue.
isolinux/initrd.img: Fixed an installer bug where setup would ask which
swap partitions you’d like to use and then conveniently set them all up
for you if you selected at least one. Thanks to DEF.
rootdisks/install.1: Fixed a bug where libraries that were moved to install.2
to make space on install.1 were needed by /bin/mount. Thanks to David Bray.
rootdisks/install.2: Moved a couple of libraries to install.1.
Fixed installer swap bug.
rootdisks/install.zip: Fixed installer swap bug.

Happen to look at the changelog yesterday and forgot to post it up here…Here it is:

Sun Aug 27 05:36:53 CDT 2006
ap/vim-7.0.066-i486-2.tgz: Use the default vanilla system vimrc as distributed
with the vim sources. Thanks to J for mentioning that using vim with
‘crontab -e’ was working fine without any additions to the vimrc.
d/m4-1.4.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to m4-1.4.6.
l/libpng-1.2.12-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled so that libpng.so.* links to libz and
libm. This has been a point of contention for a long time with the PNG folks
maintaining that you shouldn’t have to link libpng this way. Well, just
about everyone else builds libpng to link with -lz and -lm automatically,
but I’ve held my ground along with the PNG team (usually I will defer to
upstream and will send people there with these kinds of requests). Today
Janusz Dziemidowicz pointed out that if you build libpng with ./configure
that now it *is* linking to these. Good enough reason to end this problem
right now. Thanks Janusz, for pointing out that discrepancy and sending in
a patch.
n/irssi-0.8.10a-i486-4.tgz: Removed duplicates and unformatted files from
docs/help directory. Thanks to James Michael Fultz.
x/dejavu-ttf/dejavu-ttf-2.9-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to dejavu-ttf-2.9.
Moved from /extra into the X series.
Thanks to the DejaVu team (http://dejavu.sf.net) for the superb work.
x/fontconfig-2.2.3-i486-2.tgz: Patched /etc/fonts.conf to favor the DejaVu
fonts over the Vera ones if they are present on the machine. US English
users should notice only minor (if any) differences with this patch,
but other users could see their language displayed properly out-of-the box
for the first time.
x/x11-6.9.0-i486-9.tgz: Patched a PCF font parsing bug that could crash X.
Fixed the Greek keyboard layout. Thanks to Thanos Kyritsis.
Fixed ATI lockup bugs. Thanks to Mark Canter.
x/x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-9.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xdmx-6.9.0-i486-9.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xnest-6.9.0-i486-9.tgz: Recompiled.
x/x11-xvfb-6.9.0-i486-9.tgz: Recompiled.
xap/seamonkey-1.0.4-i486-3.tgz: Fixed world-writable docs.
Thanks to Piter Punk for pointing those out.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.066-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
extra/lvm2/device-mapper-1.02.09-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to
device-mapper-1.02.09, moved out of /testing.
extra/lvm2/lvm2-2.02.09-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to LVM-2.02.09,
moved out of /testing.
extra/php5/php-5.1.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to php-5.1.6,
moved out of /testing.

Looks like a few things have been moved out of testing with Pat’s blessing.  Maybe another RC coming soon?

Well, Release Candidate 3 of Slackware 11.0.0 is here. Patrick says this will most likely be the last RC but not to rule out an RC4. One important thing in this release, Kernel 2.6 has been moved out of /testing and placed into /extra. Here’s the ChangeLog entry:

Fri Aug 25 04:35:22 CDT 2006
Here is Slackware 11.0 release candidate 3. I think most of the irresistible
upgrades are in here now, and the bug reports have been mostly handled.
There may still be a few changes, and possibly another release candidate,
but this is pretty close to final with the exception of updating
documentation and building ZipSlack. Thanks very much to everyone who is
helping to test these release candidates — I think this is going to be a
very up to date and stable release.
a/glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Patched an issue with kernel version parsing
in ld-2.3.6.so that was leading glibc to treat 2.4 kernels with 4 version
parts (such as 2.4.33.2) as if they supported NPTL, leading to a crash
at boot.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-5.tgz: Updated timezone information from
tzdata2006j.
a/kernel-ide-2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to 2.4.33.2 sata.i kernel.
Enabled support for OOM killer and HIGHMEM4G.
a/kernel-modules-2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 modules.
a/udev-097-i486-6.tgz: Restore ttyUSB access to members of the tty group.
Thanks to Eugene Crosser.
In rc.udev, ignore lines that start with ‘#’.
Thanks to Ian Bates.
Removed hostap and hostap_cs dupes from blacklist.
Thanks to giovanni quadriglio.
Patched rc.optical-symlinks to avoid error messages with real SCSI devices
and the SCSI generic driver.
Thanks to Lorenzo Buzzi.
ap/lm_sensors-2.10.0-i486-1.tgz: Added lm_sensors-2.10.0, which contains the
libsensors library that KDE can use for hardware status monitoring.
ap/vim-7.0.066-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim 7.0.066.
Added reasonable default vimrc if none exists. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.066-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gvim 7.0.066 (requires vim).
d/kernel-headers-2.4.33.2-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 headers.
d/perl-5.8.8-i486-2.tgz: Upgraded to DBD-mysql-3.0006 and DBI-1.52.
Eugene Crosser reported that DBD compiled against an older version of
libmysqlclient no longer worked without a recompile. Just to be on the
safe side, everything linked with libmysqlclient is getting recompiled.
d/pkgconfig-0.21-i486-2.tgz: Export PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
k/kernel-source-2.4.33.2-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 source.
Enabled support for OOM killer and HIGHMEM4G in default .config.
kde/amarok-1.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to amarok-1.4.2.
kde/kdebase-3.5.4-i486-6.tgz: Recompiled to use libsensors with ksysguardd.
Fixed location of kdeglobals, removed font defaults but kept the
anti-aliasing fixes.
kde/koffice-1.5.2-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient and libruby.
kde/qt-3.3.6-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient, added symlink
in /usr/lib/pkgconfig to qt-mt.pc.
l/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Recompiled for Linux 2.4.33.2.
l/glibc-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Patched an issue with kernel version parsing in
ld-2.3.6.so that was leading glibc to treat 2.4 kernels with 4 version parts
(such as 2.4.33.2) as if they supported NPTL, leading to a crash at boot.
Added sa_IN and ru_RU.CP1251 locale support.
Updated timezone information from tzdata2006j.
Updated timezone utilities from tzcode2006j.
l/glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-5.tgz: Rebuilt.
Added sa_IN and ru_RU.CP1251 locale support.
l/glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Recompiled.
l/libmusicbrainz-2.1.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libmusicbrainz-2.1.4.
l/libvisual-0.4.0-i486-1.tgz: Added libvisual-0.4.0. Just the library for
now (no plugins), but this should make it much easier to compile and use
audio visualization plugins without having to recompile amaroK.
n/bitchx-1.1-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient.
n/openldap-client-2.3.27-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to openldap-client-2.3.27.
n/php-4.4.4-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient.
t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled against new LessTif to stop warnings
from xdvi.
t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz: Rebuilt. Moved info pages to /usr/info.
Thanks to Kris Karas for pointing out the misplaced info pages.
xap/gimp-2.2.13-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gimp-2.2.13.
extra/3dfx-glide/*: Removed, as it most likely doesn’t work.
extra/k3b/k3b-0.12.17-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to k3b-0.12.17.
extra/k3b/k3b-i18n-0.12.17-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to k3b-i18n-0.12.17.
extra/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre25_2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz:
Recompiled for Linux 2.4.33.2.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.08-noarch-3.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.08-noarch-3.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
bootdisks/*: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 kernels.
isolinux/initrd.img: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
isolinux/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
isolinux/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.1: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.2: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.zip: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
kernels/*: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 kernels, except the huge.s kernel.

After much thought and consultation with developers, it has been decided to
move 2.6.17.x out of /testing and into /extra. It runs stable by all reports,
has better wireless support, and is not going to be stale as soon. In
addition, HIGHMEM4G has been enabled. This caused no problems with my old
486 with 24MB (the one I use for compiling KDE ;-), and Tomas Matejicek has
enabled this in SLAX for a long time with no reports of problems, so I
believe it is a safe option (and is needed by many modern machines).
Thanks again to Andrea for building these kernels and packages.

kernels/huge26.s/*: Upgraded huge26.s kernel to 2.6.17.11.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-generic-2.6.17.11-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 generic kernel.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-headers-2.6.17.11-i386-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel headers.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-modules-2.6.17.11-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel modules.
Load PC speaker support in rc.modules. Thanks to NetrixTardis.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-source-2.6.17.11-noarch-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel source.

testing/packages/cairo-1.2.4-i486-1.tgz: Added cairo-1.2.4.
testing/packages/fontconfig-2.3.95-i486-1.tgz: Added fontconfig-2.3.95.
testing/packages/php-5.1.5/php-5.1.5-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against
libmysqlclient.

Again, Pat said this is pretty much the “final” Slackware 11.0 build, except for updating the documentation and ZipSlack.

Also, I emailed Patrick the other day about getting a neat feature built into MySQL 5.x, the MySQL FEDERATED storage engine. If you’ve never heard of it, head over to my personal blog, I made a post the other day about the FEDERATED storage engine in MySQL. Very cool stuff. Anyway, it’s obviously too late to build FEDERATED support into MySQL for Slackware 11.0, but Pat said it’d be a definite possibility after Slackware 11.0 is out the door. Yay!

Oh, one more note: we’re on Linux Today again, thanks Brian you rock!!

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It looks like the updates have come to a slow-down. Hopefully this is a sign as to what is to come in the next few days…So I was thinking that we might have a contest for guessing the release date. Post your thoughts about us having a contest and we will see what we can do! Of course, the contest would be pretty specific in nature due to the fact that some people could guess the same day, with that in mind, we would have to go by closest time also. So think about it and let us know quickly before Patrick beats us with the release of Slackware 11.

We are definitely seeing a slow down in the addition of changes to -current. Here is the additions for the day today:

Tue Aug 22 15:10:35 CDT 2006
a/shadow-4.0.3-i486-13.tgz: Fixed deprecated root:bin ownerships.
Thanks to Stuart Winter.
a/util-linux-2.12r-i486-3.tgz: Fixed file permissions and ownerships in
/usr/doc. Thanks to Stuart Winter.

Seems like we are coming close to the end and hopefully we will see a release here in the day or so…Any guesses on the release date?

Well, it looks like there were a few must have insertions into the changelogs:

Mon Aug 21 14:54:08 CDT 2006
a/udev-097-i486-5.tgz: Fixed check in rc.udev for 2.6.15+ kernel.
Thanks to Richard Fuller for the fix.
+————————–+
Sun Aug 20 23:45:58 CDT 2006
a/gpm-1.20.1-i486-2.tgz: Patched to send all non-critical error messages to
the system logs rather than to the console.
a/pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-2.tgz: Merged in some more xorgsetup patches from
Irfan Acar, Daniil Bratashov, and Piter Punk.
a/shadow-4.0.3-i486-12.tgz: Patched for gcc-3.4.x.
Thanks to Dominik L. Borkowski for the patch.
Removed spurious id.1.gz manpage. Thanks to Cal Peake.
Removed obsolete options from the passwd program.
a/sysvinit-2.84-i486-66.tgz: In rc.M, fixed the nohotplug cmdline option.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
Sleep for a couple seconds after shutting down dhcpcd in rc.6 to allow time
for various files in /etc to restore themselves. Thanks to Cal Peake.
Don’t try to mount usbfs if it’s in /proc/mounts already.
a/tar-1.15.1-i486-2.tgz: Patched to be less strict about the option order.
Thanks to Jonathan A. Irwin for sending me a patch from Sergey Poznyakoff.
a/udev-097-i486-4.tgz: Changed default udev log level from err to crit.
Refuse to run udev unless the kernel is 2.6.15+. Thanks to Sean Donner.
a/util-linux-2.12r-i486-2.tgz: Added schedutils-1.5.0 which is apparently due
to be merged into util-linux upstream sometime soon anyway.
Thanks to Jonathan Woithe for the suggestion.
ap/diffutils-2.8.1-i486-2.tgz: Patched a bug in sdiff.
Thanks to James Michael Fultz for the patch and improved build script.
ap/vim-7.0.063-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim 7.0.063.
Removed unpopular libruby dependency.
e/emacs-21.4a-i486-3.tgz: Avoid a package file overlap between Emacs ctags and
Exuberant Ctags. Thanks to Michal Kowalski for pointing it out.
kde/kdebase-3.5.4-i486-5.tgz: Added /opt/kde/share/kdeglobals to set the Vera
fonts with anti-aliasing enabled as the defaults.
xap/seamonkey-1.0.4-i486-2.tgz: Added /usr/lib/seamonkey ->
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.4 symlink. Thanks to Tsomi.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.063-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim 7.0.063.
Removed unpopular libruby dependency.
extra/checkinstall/checkinstall-1.6.0-i486-2.tgz: Fixed 640 perms on FAQ.
Thanks to Michael Iatrou.
rootdisks/pcmcia.dsk,isolinux/pcmcia.dsk: Added ide-cs module.
Requested by Zack Smith.

Hopefully, we will continue to see the minimal insertions and come to a release date soon!

For the first time ever this blog had a “hot post” here at wordpress.com.

A little while after I made that post a bunch of hits started rolling in from stumbleapon. Yay! This blog also got linked from Linux Today, which has generated a nice amount of traffic.

Hopefully, with the impending release of Slackware 11, this blog will only continue to grow in popularity.

The title pretty much says it all. Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 2 is officially here. Pat says it’s mostly frozen from here on out, so this will most likely be the last release candidate before we see Slackware 11.0 final. Here’s the new changelog entry:

Sat Aug 19 23:58:27 CDT 2006
This is mostly frozen now unless bugs (or irresistible upgrades) come up, so
I’ll call this update Slackware 11.0 release candidate 2.
a/kernel-ide-2.4.33-i486-2.tgz:
Switched to the sata.i kernel which supports both parallel and serial ATA.
a/kernel-modules-2.4.33-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel modules.
d/pkgconfig-0.21-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to pkg-config-0.21.
Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to search in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and
/opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig, too. Thanks, Seb!
d/kernel-headers-2.4.33-i386-2.tgz: Rebuilt.
k/kernel-source-2.4.33-noarch-2.tgz:
Updated the default .config to include SATA support.
Oh, and yes I did see 2.4.33.1. Thanks for letting me know ;-), but that
kernel does not seem to be booting here so I’ll stick with 2.4.33 for now.
l/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
Upgraded to alsa-driver-1.0.11 compiled for Linux 2.4.33.
bootdisks/sata.i: Rebuilt.
bootdisks/speakup.s: Added SATA support.
kernels/huge24.s/*: Recompiled.
kernels/sata.i/*: Recompiled.
kernels/speakup.s/*: Added SATA support.
kernels/test26.s/*: Upgraded test26.s kernel to 2.6.17.9.
To be consistent, bumped the build number on all of the 2.6.16.27 packages to -5.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Recompiled.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-generic-2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Recompiled.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-headers-2.6.16.27-i386-5.tgz:
Rebuilt.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-modules-2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Enabled CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK option so that
Piotr Wierzchowski’s Thinkpad will run cooler and use less power.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-source-2.6.16.27-noarch-5.tgz:
Rebuilt with CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK=y in .config.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.08-noarch-2.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.08-noarch-2.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-generic-2.6.17.9-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 generic kernel.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-headers-2.6.17.9-i386-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel headers.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-modules-2.6.17.9-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel modules.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-source-2.6.17.9-noarch-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel source.
Thanks to Andrea for building the 2.6.17.9 kernels.
rootdisks/install.1: Updated. Thanks to Cal Peake for the idea about how to
improve the setup of swap partitions.
Updated most of the binaries on the installer, but not busybox. It seems
to be working fine, and the idea of messing with it now scares me.
rootdisks/install.2: Updated.
rootdisks/install.zip: Updated.
rootdisks/network.dsk: Fixed to probe for tg3 cards.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers and Bruce Hill, Jr.
Fixed module probing to work with 2.6 modules. Thanks to Piter Punk.

I know this post is a little behind but better late then never, right? A few days ago when I was checking out my e-mail from the Dovecot-Users list, I see the following post from Timo:

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz.sig

Can everyone now agree that there are no more hangs?

* Require that Dovecot master process’s version number matches the
child process’s, unless version_ignore=yes. Usually it’s an
accidental installation problem if the version numbers don’t match.
* Maildir: Create maildirfolder file when creating new maildirs.

+ ldap+prefetch: Use global uid/gid settings if LDAP query doesn’t
return them
+ %variables: Negative offsets count from the end of the string.
Patch by Johannes Berg.
- kqueue ioloop code rewrite
- notify=kqueue might have caused connection hangs sometimes
- deliver: If message body contained a valid mbox From_ line, it
and the rest of the message was skipped.
- mbox: We got into infinite loops if trying to open a 2 byte sized
file as mbox.
- Don’t crash with ssl_disable=yes
- quota plugin caused compiling problems with some OSes
- mbox: After saving a mail to a synced mbox, we lost the sync which
caused worse performance

I think my v1.0 TODO list is:

- avoid duplicate flag change notifications, or in case the message is
also expunged don’t bother notifying its flag changes at all
(shouldn’t be hard)
- HFS+ avoid-hardlinks patch?
- 32bit -> 64bit upgrade still doesn’t work without assert-crashing:
mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
(fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
- Courier-compatible INBOX. namespace gives “invalid namespace” errors

I’m still not sure about the last one though. Could someone give me
specific commands that clients send that causes it?

As for the 32bit -> 64bit upgrade fix, could someone give me access to a
x86-64 machine for a while to test it out?

I have not gotten around to upgrading to this version yet but it seems that alot of the issues that people were having with RC6 have been resolved. Hopefully this means that Timo will bring us the official 1.0 release here very soon!

Sorry for the late update but yesterday was a crazy one…Anyway, here is yesterday’s changelog entries:

Fri Aug 18 00:20:46 CDT 2006
a/aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-8.tgz: Upgraded to the mm-1.4.2 library, patched
libtiff, upgraded to pcre-6.7 libraries, and included the recompiled
cups-1.1.23 and slang libraries.
a/cups-1.1.23-i486-4.tgz: Fixed broken es and fr man page symlinks.
d/git-1.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to git-1.4.2.
kde/kdenetwork-3.5.4-i486-2.tgz: Patched a bug in kopete that could freeze
KDE under certain circumstances. Thanks to JaguarWan and Olivier Goffart.
l/libtiff-3.8.2-i486-2.tgz: Patched vulnerabilities in libtiff which were
found by Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team. These issues could
be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code
as the program’s user. A low risk command-line overflow in tiffsplit was
also patched.
For more details, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3459
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3460
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3461
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3462
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3463
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3464
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3465
(* Security fix *)
l/mm-1.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mm-1.4.2.
l/pcre-6.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to pcre-6.7.
l/slang-2.0.6-i486-2.tgz: Fixed uncompressed manpage.
n/php-4.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to php-4.4.4.
Some of the security issues fixed in this release include:
* Added missing safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the error_log(),
file_exists(), imap_open() and imap_reopen() functions.
* Fixed possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in cURL extension.
* Fixed a buffer overflow inside sscanf() function.
(* Security fix *)
testing/packages/cups-1.2.2/cups-1.2.2-i486-2.tgz:
Removed /usr/man/man8/disable.8.gz symlink.
testing/packages/php-5.1.5/php-5.1.5-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to php-5.1.5.
Some of the security issues fixed in this release include:
* Added missing safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the error_log(),
file_exists(), imap_open() and imap_reopen() functions.
* Fixed possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in cURL extension and on
PHP 5 with realpath cache.
* Fixed a buffer overflow inside sscanf() function.
(* Security fix *)
kernels/sata.i/: Recompiled with Silicon Image PATA support. (there was
a conflict before with this and the Sil SATA driver but it was fixed)

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