Search Results: "snd"

9 September 2024

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in July 2024

2 July 2024

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in May 2024

29 June 2023

C.J. Collier: Converting a windows install to a libvirt VM

Reduce the size of your c: partition to the smallest it can be and then turn off windows with the understanding that you will never boot this system on the iron ever again.
Boot into a netinst installer image (no GUI). hold alt and press left arrow a few times until you get to a prompt to press enter. Press enter. In this example /dev/sda is your windows disk which contains the c: partition
and /dev/disk/by-id/usb0 is the USB-3 attached SATA controller that you have your SSD attached to (please find an example attached). This SSD should be equal to or larger than the windows disk for best compatability. A photo of a USB-3 attached SATA controller To find the literal path names of your detected drives you can run fdisk -l. Pay attention to the names of the partitions and the sizes of the drives to help determine which is which. Once you have a shell in the netinst installer, you should maybe be able to run a command like the following. This will duplicate the disk located at if (in file) to the disk located at of (out file) while showing progress as the status. 
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb0 status=progress
If you confirm that dd is available on the netinst image and the previous command runs successfully, test that your windows partition is visible in the new disk s partition table. The start block of the windows partition on each should match, as should the partition size. 
fdisk -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb0
fdisk -l /dev/sda
If the output from the first is the same as the output from the second, then you are probably safe to proceed. Once you confirm that you have made and tested a full copy of the blocks from your windows drive saved on your usb disk, nuke your windows partition table from orbit. 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=42
You can press alt-f1 to return to the Debian installer now. Follow the instructions to install Debian. Don t forget to remove all attached USB drives. Once you install Debian, press ctrl-alt-f3 to get a root shell. Add your user to the sudoers group: 
# adduser cjac sudoers
log out 
# exit
log in as your user and confirm that you have sudo 
$ sudo ls
Don t forget to read the spider man advice enter your password you ll need to install virt-manager. I think this should help: 
$ sudo apt-get install virt-manager libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu qemu-system-x86
insert the USB drive. You can now create a qcow2 file for your virtual machine. 
$ sudo qemu-img convert -O qcow2 \
/dev/disk/by-id/usb0 \
/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.qcow2
I personally create a volume group called /dev/vg00 for the stuff I want to run raw and instead of converting to qcow2 like all of the other users do, I instead write it to a new logical volume. 
sudo lvcreate /dev/vg00 -n windows -L 42G # or however large your drive was
sudo dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb0 of=/dev/vg00/windows status=progress
Now that you ve got the qcow2 file created, press alt-left until you return to your GDM session. The apt-get install command above installed virt-manager, so log in to your system if you haven t already and open up gnome-terminal by pressing the windows key or moving your mouse/gesture to the top left of your screen. Type in gnome-terminal and either press enter or click/tap on the icon. I like to run this full screen so that I feel like I m in a space ship. If you like to feel like you re in a spaceship, too, press F11. You can start virt-manager from this shell or you can press the windows key and type in virt-manager and press enter. You ll want the shell to run commands such as virsh console windows or virsh list When virt-manager starts, right click on QEMU/KVM and select New.
In the New VM window, select Import existing disk image
When prompted for the path to the image, use the one we created with sudo qemu-img convert above.
Select the version of Windows you want.
Select memory and CPUs to allocate to the VM.
Tick the Customize configuration before install box
If you re prompted to enable the default network, do so now.
The default hardware layout should probably suffice. Get it as close to the underlying hardware as it is convenient to do. But Windows is pretty lenient these days about virtualizing licensed windows instances so long as they re not running in more than one place at a time. Good luck! Leave comments if you have questions.

24 January 2023

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2022)

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Congratulations!

3 October 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in September 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 226 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 232. All in all I addressed about 60 RM-bugs and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 5 hours for this task. Anyway, I have to repeat my comment from last month: please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug! Debian LTS This was my ninety-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 14h. During that time I uploaded: I also started to work on frr. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master. Debian ELTS This month was the fiftieth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian IoT This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Mobcom This month I started another upload session for new upstrea versions: Other stuff This month I uploaded new packages:

3 July 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in June 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 305 and rejected 59 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 310. From time to time I am also looking at the list of packages to be removed. If you would like to make life easier for the people who remove packages, please make sure that the resulting dak command really makes sense. If this command consists of garbage, please adapt the Subject: of your bug report accordingly. Also it does not make sense to file bugs to remove packages from NEW. Please don t hesitate to close such bugs again Debian LTS This was my ninety-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 30.25h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I have to admit that I totally ignored the EOL of Stretch LTS, so my upload of ncurses needs to go to Stretch ELTS now. This month I also moved/refactored the current LTS documentation to a new repository and started to move the LTS Wiki as well. I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master. At this point I also need to mention my first business trip . I drove the short distance between Chemnitz and Freiberg and met Anton to have a face to face talk about LTS/ELTS. It was a great pleasure and definitely more fun than a meeting on IRC. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-seventh ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Due to the delay of my ncurses upload to Stretch LTS, the ELTS upload got delayed as well. Now I will do both uploads to ELTS in July. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Astro As there has been a new indi release arriving in Debian, I uploaded new upstream versions of most of the indi-3rdparty packages. Don t hesitate to tell me whether you really use one of them :-). Other stuff This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

10 August 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in July 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 13 and rejected 2 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 13. As the Release Team prefers not to have any new package upload to unstable, the numbers are this low. I am afraid there is some discussion needed after the release of Bullseye Debian LTS This was my eighty-fifth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 30h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also made further progress on gpac and started to test the package now. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. I am not sure whether it is just me, but I got the impression that nowadays lots of CVEs can be marked as not-affected in the corresponding Stretch-version. Most of the remaining CVEs only have a small security impact (if at all) and can be marked as no-dsa. So the number of packages that really need an update decreases steadily. Does that mean that all issues in older versions are fixed now? Or are people more focused on new features in software as it is easier to find issues in more or less unexplored code? Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-seventh ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. In ELTS the decreasing number of uploads, as mentioned above, seems to be even more clearly. Other stuff I played a bit with RISC-V and looked after some packages that did not build on that architecture. Generally this looks like fun but building packages with qemu dampens the mood a bit. So if anybody knows some hardware that runs Debian, that is available now and that does not cost more than my car, I would be happy to get some pointer. This month I uploaded new upstream versions of: to experimental. I improved packaging and fixed bugs in: On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload.

10 November 2020

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in October 2020

FTP master This month I accepted 208 packages and rejected 29. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 563, so yeah, I was not alone this month :-). Anyway, this month marked another milestone in my NEW package handling. My overall number of ACCEPTed package exceeded the magic number of 20000 packages. This is almost 30% of all packages accepted in Debian. I am a bit proud of this achievement. Debian LTS This was my seventy-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 20.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of: I also started to work on golang-1.7 and golang-1.8 Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the twenty eighth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: The first upload of python3.4, last month, did not build on armel, so I had to reupload an improved package this month. For amd64 and i386 the ELTS packages are built in native mode, whereas the packages on armel are cross-built. There is some magic in debian/rules of python to detect in which mode the package is built. This is important as some tests of the testsuite are not really working in cross-build-mode. Unfortunately I had to learn this the hard way The upload of libsndfile now aligns the number of fixed CVEs in all releases. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff Despite my NEW-handling and LTS/ELTS stuff I hadn t much fun with Debian packages this month. Given the approaching freeze, I hope this will change again in November.

1 July 2020

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities June 2020

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration
  • Debian BTS: usertags QA
  • Debian IRC channels: fixed a channel mode lock
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, ping folks with bouncing email

Communication
  • Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The ifenslave and apt-listchanges work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

9 May 2020

Sandro Tosi: It's a waiting game... but just how long we gotta wait?

While waiting for my priority date to become current, and with enough "quarantine time" on my hand, i just come up with a very simple Python tool to parse the USCIS Visa Bulletin to gather some data from that.

You can find code and images in this GitHub repo.

For now it only contains a single plot for the EB3 final action date; it answers a simple question: how many months ago your priority date should be if you want to file your AOS on that month. We started from FY2016, to cover the final full year of the Obama administration.

If you're interested in more classes/visas, let me know and the tool could be easily extended to cover that too. PRs are always welcome.

9 October 2017

Markus Koschany: My Free Software Activities in September 2017

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games Debian Java Debian LTS This was my nineteenth month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 15,75 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following: Misc QA upload Thanks for reading and see you next time.

31 August 2017

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in August 2017

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world in August 2017 (previous month):
Reproducible builds

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most software is distributed pre-compiled to end users. The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced either maliciously or accidentally during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised. I have generously been awarded a grant from the Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund my work in this area. This month I:
  • Presented a status update at Debconf17 in Montr al, Canada alongside Holger Levsen, Maria Glukhova, Steven Chamberlain, Vagrant Cascadian, Valerie Young and Ximin Luo.
  • I worked on the following issues upstream:
    • glib2.0: Please make the output of gio-querymodules reproducible. (...)
    • gcab: Please make the output reproducible. (...)
    • gtk+2.0: Please make the immodules.cache files reproducible. (...)
    • desktop-file-utils: Please make the output reproducible. (...)
  • Within Debian:
  • Categorised a large number of packages and issues in the Reproducible Builds "notes" repository.
  • Worked on publishing our weekly reports. (#118, #119, #120, #121 & #122)

I also made the following changes to our tooling:
diffoscope

diffoscope is our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues.

  • Use name attribute over path to avoid leaking comparison full path in output. (commit)
  • Add missing skip_unless_module_exists import. (commit)
  • Tidy diffoscope.progress and the XML comparator (commit, commit)

disorderfs

disorderfs is our FUSE-based filesystem that deliberately introduces non-determinism into directory system calls in order to flush out reproducibility issues.

  • Add a simple autopkgtest smoke test. (commit)


Debian
Patches contributed
  • openssh: Quote the IP address in ssh-keygen -f suggestions. (#872643)
  • libgfshare:
    • SIGSEGV if /dev/urandom is not accessible. (#873047)
    • Add bindnow hardening. (#872740)
    • Support nodoc build profile. (#872739)
  • devscripts:
  • memcached: Add hardening to systemd .service file. (#871610)
  • googler: Tidy long and short package descriptions. (#872461)
  • gnome-split: Homepage points to domain-parked website. (#873037)
Uploads
  • python-django 1:1.11.4-1 New upstream release.
  • redis:
    • 4:4.0.1-3 Drop yet more non-deterministic tests.
    • 4:4.0.1-4 Tighten systemd/seccomp hardening.
    • 4:4.0.1-5 Drop even more tests with timing issues.
    • 4:4.0.1-6 Don't install completions to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/debian/bash_completion/.
    • 4:4.0.1-7 Don't let sentinel integration tests fail the build as they use too many timers to be meaningful. (#872075)
  • python-gflags 1.5.1-3 If SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, either use that as a source of current dates or the UTC-version of the file's modification time (#836004), don't call update-alternatives --remove in postrm. update debian/watch/Homepage & refresh/tidy the packaging.
  • bfs 1.1.1-1 New upstream release, tidy autopkgtest & patches, organising the latter with Pq-Topic.
  • python-daiquiri 1.2.2-1 New upstream release, tidy autopkgtests & update travis.yml from travis.debian.net.
  • aptfs 2:0.10-2 Add upstream signing key, refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in debian/copyright & tidy autopkgtests.
  • adminer 4.3.1-2 Add a simple autopkgtest & don't install the Selenium-based tests in the binary package.
  • zoneminder (1.30.4+dfsg-2) Prevent build failures with GCC 7 (#853717) & correct example /etc/fstab entries in README.Debian (#858673).

Finally, I reviewed and sponsored uploads of astral, inflection, more-itertools, trollius-redis & wolfssl.
Debian LTS

This month I have been paid to work 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS). In that time I did the following:
  • "Frontdesk" duties, triaging CVEs, etc.
  • Issued DLA 1049-1 for libsndfile preventing a remote denial of service attack.
  • Issued DLA 1052-1 against subversion to correct an arbitrary code execution vulnerability.
  • Issued DLA 1054-1 for the libgxps XML Paper Specification library to prevent a remote denial of service attack.
  • Issued DLA 1056-1 for cvs to prevent a command injection vulnerability.
  • Issued DLA 1059-1 for the strongswan VPN software to close a denial of service attack.
Debian bugs filed
  • wget: Please hash the hostname in ~/.wget-hsts files. (#870813)
  • debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated. (#871534)
  • git-buildpackage: "pq export" discards text within square brackets. (#872354)
  • qa.debian.org: Escape HTML in debcheck before outputting. (#872646)
  • pristine-tar: Enable multithreaded compression in pristine-xz. (#873229)
  • tryton-meta: Please combine tryton-modules-* into a single source package with multiple binaries. (#873042)
  • azure-cli:
  • fwupd-tests: Don't ship test files to generic /usr/share/installed-tests dir. (#872458)
  • libvorbis: Maintainer fields points to a moderated mailing list. (#871258)
  • rmlint-gui: Ship a rmlint-gui binary. (#872162)
  • template-glib: debian/copyright references online source without quotation. (#873619)
FTP Team

As a Debian FTP assistant I ACCEPTed 147 packages: abiword, adacgi, adasockets, ahven, animal-sniffer, astral, astroidmail, at-at-clojure, audacious, backdoor-factory, bdfproxy, binutils, blag-fortune, bluez-qt, cheshire-clojure, core-match-clojure, core-memoize-clojure, cypari2, data-priority-map-clojure, debian-edu, debian-multimedia, deepin-gettext-tools, dehydrated-hook-ddns-tsig, diceware, dtksettings, emacs-ivy, farbfeld, gcc-7-cross-ports, git-lfs, glewlwyd, gnome-recipes, gnome-shell-extension-tilix-dropdown, gnupg2, golang-github-aliyun-aliyun-oss-go-sdk, golang-github-approvals-go-approval-tests, golang-github-cheekybits-is, golang-github-chzyer-readline, golang-github-denverdino-aliyungo, golang-github-glendc-gopher-json, golang-github-gophercloud-gophercloud, golang-github-hashicorp-go-rootcerts, golang-github-matryer-try, golang-github-opentracing-contrib-go-stdlib, golang-github-opentracing-opentracing-go, golang-github-tdewolff-buffer, golang-github-tdewolff-minify, golang-github-tdewolff-parse, golang-github-tdewolff-strconv, golang-github-tdewolff-test, golang-gopkg-go-playground-validator.v8, gprbuild, gsl, gtts, hunspell-dz, hyperlink, importmagic, inflection, insighttoolkit4, isa-support, jaraco.itertools, java-classpath-clojure, java-jmx-clojure, jellyfish1, lazymap-clojure, libblockdev, libbytesize, libconfig-zomg-perl, libdazzle, libglvnd, libjs-emojify, libjwt, libmysofa, libundead, linux, lua-mode, math-combinatorics-clojure, math-numeric-tower-clojure, mediagoblin, medley-clojure, more-itertools, mozjs52, openssh-ssh1, org-mode, oysttyer, pcscada, pgsphere, poppler, puppetdb, py3status, pycryptodome, pysha3, python-cliapp, python-coloredlogs, python-consul, python-deprecation, python-django-celery-results, python-dropbox, python-fswrap, python-hbmqtt, python-intbitset, python-meshio, python-parameterized, python-pgpy, python-py-zipkin, python-pymeasure, python-thriftpy, python-tinyrpc, python-udatetime, python-wither, python-xapp, pythonqt, r-cran-bit, r-cran-bit64, r-cran-blob, r-cran-lmertest, r-cran-quantmod, r-cran-ttr, racket-mode, restorecond, rss-bridge, ruby-declarative, ruby-declarative-option, ruby-errbase, ruby-google-api-client, ruby-rash-alt, ruby-representable, ruby-test-xml, ruby-uber, sambamba, semodule-utils, shimdandy, sjacket-clojure, soapysdr, stencil-clojure, swath, template-glib, tools-analyzer-jvm-clojure, tools-namespace-clojure, uim, util-linux, vim-airline, vim-airline-themes, volume-key, wget2, xchat, xfce4-eyes-plugin & xorg-gtest. I additionally filed 6 RC bugs against packages that had incomplete debian/copyright files against: gnome-recipes, golang-1.9, libdazzle, poppler, python-py-zipkin & template-glib.

30 June 2017

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in June 2017

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world (previous month):
Reproducible builds

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most software is distributed pre-compiled to end users. The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced either maliciously or accidentally during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source. Multiple third-parties then can come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised or not. I have generously been awarded a grant from the Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund my work in this area. This month I:
  • Chaired our monthly IRC meeting. (Summary, logs, etc.)
  • Presented at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2017.
  • Presented at LinuxCon China.
  • Submitted the following patches to fix reproducibility-related toolchain issues within Debian:
    • cracklib2: Ensuring /var/cache/cracklib/src-dicts are reproducible. (#865623)
    • fontconfig: Ensuring the cache files are reproducible. (#864082)
    • nfstrace: Make the PDF footers reproducible. (#865751)
  • Submitted 6 patches to fix specific reproducibility issues in cd-hit, janus, qmidinet, singularity-container, tigervnc & xabacus.
  • Submitted a wishlist request to the TeX mailing list to ensure that PDF files are reproducible even if generated from a difficult path after identifying underlying cause. (Thread)
  • Categorised a large number of packages and issues in the Reproducible Builds notes.git repository.
  • Worked on publishing our weekly reports. (#110, #111, #112 & #113)
  • Updated our website with 13 missing talks (e291180), updated the metadata for some existing talks (650a201) and added OpenEmbedded to the projects page (12dfcf0).
I also made the following changes to our tooling:
diffoscope

diffoscope is our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues.


strip-nondeterminism

strip-nondeterminism is our tool to remove specific non-deterministic results from a completed build.

  • Add libarchive-cpio-perl with the !nocheck build profile. (01e408e)
  • Add dpkg-dev dependency build profile. (f998bbe)


Debian My activities as the current Debian Project Leader are covered in my "Bits from the DPL" email to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. However, I:
Debian LTS

This month I have been paid to work 16 hours hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS). In that time I did the following:
  • "Frontdesk" duties, triaging CVEs, etc.
  • Issued DLA 974-1 fixing a command injection vulnerability in picocom, a dumb-terminal emulation program.
  • Issued DLA 972-1 which patches a double-free vulnerability in the openldap LDAP server.
  • Issued DLA 976-1 which corrects a buffer over-read vulnerability in the yodl ("Your Own Document Language") document processor.
  • Issued DLA 985-1 to address a vulnerability in libsndfile (a library for reading/writing audio files) where a specially-crafted AIFF file could result in an out-of-bounds memory read.
  • Issued DLA 990-1 to fix an infinite loop vulnerability in the expat, an XML parsing library.
  • Issued DLA 999-1 for the openvpn VPN server if clients used a HTTP proxy with NTLM authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker could cause the client to crash or disclose stack memory that was likely to contain the proxy password.
Uploads
  • bfs (1.0.2-1) New upstream release, add basic/smoke autopkgtests.
  • installation-birthday (5) Add some basic autopkgtest smoke tests and correct the Vcs- Git,Browser headers.
  • python-django:
    • 1:1.11.2-1 New upstream minor release & backport an upstream patch to prevent a test failure if the source is not writable. (#816435)
    • 1:1.11.2-2 Upload to unstable, use !nocheck profile for build dependencies that are only required for tests and various packaging updates.

I also made the following non-maintainer uploads (NMUs):
  • kluppe (0.6.20-1.1) Fix segmentation fault caused by passing a truncated pointer instead of a GtkType. (#863421)
  • porg (2:0.10-1.1) Fix broken LD_PRELOAD path for libporg-log.so. (#863495)
  • ganeti-instance-debootstrap (0.16-2.1) Fix "illegal option for fgrep" error by using "--" to escape the search needle. (#864025)
  • pavuk (0.9.35-6.1) Fix segmentation fault when opening the "Limitations" window due to pointer truncation in src/gtkmulticol.[ch]. (#863492)
  • timemachine (0.3.3-2.1) Fix two segmentation faults in src/gtkmeter.c and gtkmeterscale.c caused by passing a truncated pointers using guint instead of a GtkType. (#863420)
  • jackeq (0.5.9-2.1) Fix another segmentation fault caused by passing a truncated pointer instead of a GtkType. (#863416)
Debian bugs filed
  • debhelper: Don't run dh_installdocs if nodoc is specified in DEB_BUILD_PROFILES? (#865869)
  • python-blessed: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests. (#864337)
  • apt: Please print a better error message if zero certificates are loaded from the system CA store. (#866377)

1 June 2017

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in May 2017

FTP assistant This month I only marked 39 packages for accept and rejected 5 packages. Debian LTS This was my thirty-fifth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 27.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads or prepared one for Jessie/Sid: For [DLA 948-1] dropbear and [DLA 958-1] libonig I only did the LTS bookkeeping and sent the DLA. The icu upload would not have been possible without the help of Roberto. I also tried to work on jasper, libxml2, libytnef and swftools but unfortunately all upstreams did not finish their respective patches this month, so maybe there will be an upload in June. Other stuff Again this has been a busy LTS month, so I only uploaded a new version of smstools, which closed most of its bugs and adopted adopted ptpd as DOPOM. As a prerequisite of wview I uploaded radlib. Unfortunately I could not do anything for wview, so work on this has to be postponed. Another new package is te923con, which I hope is able to read data from my weather station. Last but no least I fixed an RC bug in alljoyn-services-1504.

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities May 2017

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration
  • Debian: discuss mail bounces with a hoster, check perms of LE results, add 1 user to a group, re-sent some TLS cert expiry mail, clean up mail bounce flood, approve some debian.net TLS certs, do the samhain dance thrice, end 1 samhain mail flood, diagnose/fix LDAP update issue, relay DebConf cert expiry mails, reboot 2 non-responsive VM, merged patches for debian.org-sources.debian.org meta-package,
  • Debian mentors: lintian/security updates & reboot
  • Debian wiki: delete stray tmp file, whitelist 14 email addresses, disable 1 accounts with bouncing email, ping 3 persons with bouncing email
  • Debian website: update/push index/CD/distrib
  • Debian QA: deploy my changes, disable some removed suites in qadb
  • Debian PTS: strip whitespace from existing pages, invalidate sigs so pages get a rebuild
  • Debian derivatives census: deploy changes
  • Openmoko: security updates & reboots.

Communication
  • Invite Purism (on IRC), XBian (also on IRC), DuZeru to the Debian derivatives census
  • Respond to the shutdown of Parsix
  • Report BlankOn fileserver and Huayra webserver issues
  • Organise a transition of Ubuntu/Endless Debian derivatives census maintainers
  • Advocate against Debian having a monopoly on hardware certification
  • Advocate working with existing merchandise vendors
  • Start a discussion about Debian membership in other organisations
  • Advocate for HPE to join the LVFS & support fwupd

Sponsors All work was done on a volunteer basis.

29 April 2017

Antoine Beaupr : My free software activities, April 2017

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) This is my monthly Debian LTS report. My time this month was spent working on various hairy security issues, most notably XBMC (now known as Kodi) and yaml-cpp.

Kodi directory transversal I started by looking in CVE-2017-5982, a "directory traversal" vulnerability in XBMC (now known as Kodi) which is a technical term for "allow attackers to read any world-readable file on your computer from the network". It's a serious vulnerability which has no known fix. When you enable the "remote control" interface in Kodi, it allows anyone with the password (which is disabled by default) to download any files Kodi has read access to on the machine it's running. Considering Kodi is often connected to multiple services, this may mean elevated compromise and more nasty stuff. I furthered the investigation done with my own analysis which showed the problem is difficult to solve: Kodi internally uses the facility to show thumbnails and media to the user, and there are no clear way of restricting which paths Kodi should have access to. Indeed, Kodi is designed to access mounted file systems and paths in arbitrary locations. In Debian bug #855225, I further confirmed confirmed wheezy and jessie-backports as vulnerable and therefore showed with good certainty that stretch and sid are vulnerable as well. I also suggested possible workaround, but at this point, it's in upstream's hands, as the changes will be intrusive. The file transfer mechanism need to be revamped all over Kodi, or authentication (with a proper password policy), need to be enforced.

Squirrelmail Next I looked at that old webmail software, Squirrelmail, which suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-7692) when sending mails with sendmail on the commandline. This is arguably an edge case, but considering the patch was simple, I figured I would provide an update to the LTS community. I tried to get a coordinated release for jessie, since the code is the same, but this wasn't completed at the time of writing. A patch is available and will hopefully be picked up by another LTS worker soon.

Fop and Batik Those issues (CVE-2017-5661 and CVE-2017-5662) were more difficult. The patches weren't clearly documented and there were no upstream references other than security advisories for the first release in years (in the case of batik) or months (in the case of fop), which made it hard to track down the issues. Fortunately, I was able to track down the upstream issues (FOP-2668 and BATIK-1139) where I got confirmation on what the proper fixes were. I could then release DLA-927-1 and DLA-926-1 with the backported patches. I do not use fop or batik. In fact, even after reading the homepage of both products, I couldn't quite figure out what use people could possibly have for that thing. Before uploading the packages, I therefore made packages available for testing for fop and batik.

libsndfile Next up was libsndfile which a bunch of overflows when parsing various audio files. I backported a patch for CVE-2017-7585 CVE-2017-7586 and CVE-2017-7741 which all seemed to be fixed by a single patch usptream. CVE-2017-7742 was also fixed, although with a separate patch. In all of those, i could only test CVE-2017-7741 and CVE-2017-7742, as the others were missing test cases. I provided a test package for a few days then I also figured it would be best to incorporate the security fixes done in stable, which brought in fixes for CVE-2015-7805, CVE-2014-9756 and CVE-2014-9496. So in the end, I ported patches from wheezy to jessie and uploaded the jessie version (reverting certain build changes) into wheezy and uploaded DLA-928-1 with the results.

yaml-cpp I then turned to yaml-cpp, a C++ parser for YAML. This one didn't have a known upstream fix, but I figured I would give it a shot anyways. I ended up writing my first C++ code in years which is still pending review and merge upstream. It's not an easy problem to fix: this is basically an excessive recursion problem that can be used to smash the stack. I figured I could introduce a recursion limit, but as the discussion showed, this is a limited approach: stack size varies on different platforms and it's not easy to find the right limit. The real solution is to rewrite the code to avoid recursion but that's a major code refactoring I didn't feel belong in a LTS update. Besides, this could be better handled by upstream, so I will leave things at that for now. It does make you wonder how much code out there is recursing on untrusted data structures...

kedpm Finally, a friend over at Koumbit.org reported Debian bug #860817, as information leak in kedpm, a password manager I previously maintained. I requested and got assigned CVE-2017-8296 and provided a fix for wheezy and jessie. For unstable and the coming stretch release, I have requested kedpm to be completely removed from Debian (Debian bug #860817) which involved a release notes update (Debian bug #861277). It's unfortunate to see software go, but kedpm wasn't maintained. I wasn't the original author: I just gave a few patches and ended up maintaining that software and not using it. It's a bad situation to be in, as you don't really know what's working and not with the tools you are supposed to be responsible for. There are more modern alternatives available now and I encourage everyone to switch.

Triage Looking for more work, I peeked a bit in the secretary tasks to triage some pending issues. I found that trafficserver could be crashed with simple requests (CVE-2017-5659) so I looked into that issue. My analysis showed that the patch is long and complex and could be difficult to backport to the old version available in wheezy. I also couldn't reproduce the issue in wheezy, so it may be a bug introduced only later, although I couldn't confirm that directly. I also triaged wireshark, where I just noted the maintainer expressed concern that we were taking up issues too fast and will probably take care of this one. I also postponed various issues in GnuTLS (marked "no-dsa") as they affect only a (unfortunately) rarely used part of GnuTLS that has been removed in later version: OpenPGP support.

Other free software work

Debiman I finally got around contributing to the debiman project. I worked on ensuring that there is a dman compatibility in debiman, by shipping dman in the debian-goodies package (Debian bug #860920). I also submitted a pull request to fix the fix about page title, document the custom assets repository, fix a stray bracket and link to the link to venerable man7.org project After a discussion on IRC, I also filed a few more issues: I'm happy to be able to contribute to this important service and I hope the new FAQ I created will be online soon!

XMonad and Emacs I started using writeroom-mode again as part of my work on LWN. As it turns out, my setup was not exactly working: I had to port my config to the new version and windows weren't "sticky" as they should be, a known issue with Xmonad. Indeed, Xmonad doesn't obey the "static" or "all desktops" standard directives. Writeroom is a "distraction-free writing" mode for Emacs, so the irony of working on such a deep distraction in establishing a distraction free environment is not lost on me. Needing to scratch that particular itch, and with the help of clever people from the IRC channel, I was able to make Emacs tell Xmonad to show its window (or "frame" as Emacs likes to call it) on all desktops. This involved creating a new function which I think could be useful in the CopyWindow library: 
--   Toggle between "copyToAll" or "killAllOtherCopies". Copies to all
-- workspaces, or remove from all other workspaces, depending on
-- previous state (checked with "wsContainingCopies").
copyToAllToggle :: X ()
copyToAllToggle = do
    -- check which workspaces have copies
    copies <- wsContainingCopies
    if null copies
      then windows copyToAll -- no workspaces, make sticky
      else killAllOtherCopies -- already other workspaces, unstick
There are probably better ways of implementing this directly in the CopyWindow code - wsContainingCopies, in particular, is probably overkill. But it's all I can use directly from my xmonad.hs, so that's what I did. The other bit I needed was something to trigger that function from the outside. I rejected the ServerMode hook because it looked a bit too complicated and there is a built-in facility within X that works without this, which, from Emacs' point of view, is the x-send-client-message function. So I made up a new message identifier and wrote a event hook handler to process it: 
--   handle X client messages that tell Xmonad to make a window appear
-- on all workspaces
--
-- this should really be using _NET_WM_STATE and
-- _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY. but that's more complicated: then we'd need
-- to inspect a window and figure out the current state and act
-- accordingly. I am not good enough with Xmonad to figure out that
-- part yet.
--
-- Instead, just check for the relevant message and check if the
-- focused window is already on all workspaces and toggle based on
-- that.
--
-- this is designed to interoperate with Emacs's writeroom-mode module
-- and called be called from elisp with:
--
-- (x-send-client-message nil 0 nil "XMONAD_COPY_ALL_SELF" 8 '(0))
myClientMessageEventHook :: Event -> X All
myClientMessageEventHook (ClientMessageEvent  ev_message_type = mt, ev_data = dt ) = do
  dpy <- asks display
  -- the client message we're expecting
  copyAllMsg <- io $ internAtom dpy "XMONAD_COPY_ALL_SELF" False
  -- if the event matches the message we expect, toggle sticky state
  when (mt == copyAllMsg && dt /= []) $ do
    copyToAllToggle
  -- we processed the event completely
  return $ All True
All that was left was to hook that into Emacs, and I was done! Whoohoo! Full screen total domination, distraction free work! :) I would love to hear from others what they think of that approach, if they have improvements or if the above copyToAllToggle function could be merged in. Ideally, Xmonad would just parse the STICKY client messages and do the right thing - maybe even directly in CopyWindow - but I have found this enough Haskell for one day. You can see the diff on my home directory to see exactly the changes involved to make this configuration work.

Emacs packaging Speaking of Emacs, after complaining in the noisy #emacs IRC channel about the poor TLS configuration of marmelade.org -- and filing a bug (Debian bug #861106) regarding the use of SHA-1 in certificate pinning -- I was told we shouldn't expect trust from third-party ELPA repositories. Marmelade seems to be dead, as the maintainer is "behind the great firewall of China" and MELPA still hasn't figured out how to sign packages. In the end, it seems like there are tons of elpa packages in Debian and that if your favorite one is missing, that's a bug that can be filed and fixed. I first discovered that 6 of the packages I used were already packaged: And so I went ahead and filed a ton more bugs for the packages I am using but that aren't in Debian just yet: Of those, I can't recommend multiple-cursors (MC) enough: I used it at least 4 times just writing this text. It's just awesome. The other ones are also all great in their own right of course, but I feel they are more specific to my workflow whereas MC is just amazing.

ikiwiki I did some more work on ikiwiki the software driving this blog. I created a new plugin to, at least, fix anchors in the table of contents to be human readable. This is something I had done on the MoinMoin wiki almost a decade ago -- which I called then NicerHeadingIds and that I have always found frustrating with Ikiwiki. It turns out the problem was both easier and hairier than I thought. Right from the start, something weird was happening: something was already adding nice headings, but they were somewhat broken. It turns out that multimarkdown already inserts those headers, but I wasn't satisfied with the way they were generated. But even worse, I had the headinganchors plugin enabled, but that plugin wasn't taking effect, because of multimarkdown. And even if it would take effect, it doesn't behave well with non-ASCII characters, which gets turned in their numeric presentation. So I also wrote the i18nheadinganchors plugin that creates better headings and patched the toc plugin so that it can reuse existing anchors if they exist, while keeping backwards compatibility. I hope this gets merged in a future ikiwiki release so I do not have to carry this patch locally too long... In other news, I have upgraded the ikiwiki-hosting package to the latest version and sent a patch upstream to provide HSTS support.

Other stuff I have migrated all my public repos hosted on my home server to either Gitlab.com or Github. I also have repositories on 0xacab and it seemed ludicrous to have 4 different, canonical, places where my code was hosted. I have now about 40 different projects on Gitlab and about 60 on Github, although most of the latter are forks of existing projects. I also made a manpage for stressant and moved the documentation to RTFD which makes it neatly accessible. I also made small incremental improvements (like --directory support). I installed Rainloop on this server to give a nice, mobile-friendly webmail. Instructions to replicate this setup are in mail. In the constant git-annex documentation effort, I tried to draft a user guide that could be a basis for restructuring the documentation to be more easily accessible. I also helped a friend put his documentation on the wiki in splitting a repository. Finally, I also looked into Android stuff a little more. I wrote a usability review of the F-Droid privileged extension that will bring good changes, I hope. I also opened the discussion regarding reproducible builds to try and clarify exactly how those worked to help the Wallabag people ship consistently signed alphas. So far, it seems that it will remain a standard practice on F-Droid to ship packages that are not signed by the official upstream signature, unfortunately, unless upstream provides a reproducible build that is publicly available... Switching to such build is also a hairy issue, as, obviously, the signature changes, which raises the alarm we are trying to avoid in the first place.

11 January 2017

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible Builds: week 89 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday January 1 and Saturday January 7 2017: GSoC and Outreachy updates Toolchain development Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed Chris Lamb: Dhole: Reviews of unreproducible packages 13 package reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 6 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. 2 issue types have been added/updated: Upstreaming of reproducibility fixes Merged: Opened: Weekly QA work During our reproducibility testing, the following FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by: diffoscope development diffoscope 67 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions from : 
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Optimisations:
  - Avoid multiple iterations over archive by unpacking once for an ~8X
    runtime optimisation.
  - Avoid unnecessary splitting and interpolating for a ~20X optimisation
    when writing --text output.
  - Avoid expensive diff regex parsing until we need it, speeding up diff
    parsing by 2X.
  - Alias expensive Config() in diff parsing lookup for a 10% optimisation.
* Progress bar:
  - Show filenames, ELF sections, etc. in progress bar.
  - Emit JSON on the the status file descriptor output instead of a custom
    format.
* Logging:
  - Use more-Pythonic logging functions and output based on __name__, etc.
  - Use Debian-style "I:", "D:" log level format modifier.
  - Only print milliseconds in output, not microseconds.
  - Print version in debug output so that saved debug outputs can standalone
    as bug reports.
* Profiling:
  - Also report the total number of method calls, not just the total time.
  - Report on the total wall clock taken to execute diffoscope, including
    cleanup.
* Tidying:
  - Rename "NonExisting" -> "Missing".
  - Entirely rework diffoscope.comparators module, splitting as many separate
    concerns into a different utility package, tidying imports, etc.
  - Split diffoscope.difference into diffoscope.diff, etc.
  - Update file references in debian/copyright post module reorganisation.
  - Many other cleanups, etc.
* Misc:
  - Clarify comment regarding why we call python3(1) directly. Thanks to J r my
    Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>.
  - Raise a clearer error if trying to use --html-dir on a file.
  - Fix --output-empty when files are identical and no outputs specified.
[ Reiner Herrmann ]
* Extend .apk recognition regex to also match zip archives (Closes: #849638)
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Follow the rename of the Debian package "python-jsbeautifier" to
  "jsbeautifier".
[ siamezzze ]
* Fixed no newline being classified as order-like difference.
reprotest development reprotest 0.5 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions from: 
[ Ximin Luo ]
* Stop advertising variations that we're not actually varying.
  That is: domain_host, shell, user_group.
* Fix auto-presets in the case of a file in the current directory.
* Allow disabling build-path variations. (Closes: #833284)
* Add a faketime variation, with NO_FAKE_STAT=1 to avoid messing with
  various buildsystems. This is on by default; if it causes your builds
  to mess up please do file a bug report.
* Add a --store-dir option to save artifacts.
Other contributions (not yet uploaded): reproducible-builds.org website development tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen and Vagrant Cascadian, reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.

20 October 2016

H ctor Or n Mart nez: Build a Debian package against Debian 8.0 using Download On Demand (DoD) service

In the previous post Open Build Service software architecture has been overviewed. In the current blog post, a tutorial on setting up a package build with OBS from Debian packages is presented. Steps: Generate a test environment by creating Stretch/SID VM Really, use whatever suits you best, but please create an untrusted test environment for this one. In the current tutorial it assumes $hostname is stretch , which should be stretch or sid suite. Be aware that copy & paste configuration files from current post might lead you into broken characters (i.e. ). Debian Stretch weekly netinst CD Enable experimental repository 
# echo "deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian experimental main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list
# apt-get update
Install and setup OBS server, api, worker and osc CLI packages 
# apt-get install obs-server obs-api obs-worker osc
In the install process mysql database is needed, therefore if mysql server is not setup, a password needs to be provided.
When OBS API database obs-api is created, we need to pick a password for it, provide opensuse . The obs-api package will configure apache2 https webserver (creating a dummy certificate for stretch ) to serve OBS webui.
Add stretch and obs aliases to localhost entry in your /etc/hosts file.
Enable worker by setting ENABLED=1 in /etc/default/obsworker
Try to connect to the web UI https://stretch/
Login into OBS webui, default login credentials: Admin/opensuse).
From command line tool, try to list projects in OBS 
 $ osc -A https://stretch ls
Accept dummy certificate and provide credentials (defaults: Admin/opensuse)
If the install proceeds as expected follow to the next step. Ensure all OBS services are running 
# backend services
obsrun     813  0.0  0.9 104960 20448 ?        Ss   08:33   0:03 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_dodup
obsrun     815  0.0  1.5 157512 31940 ?        Ss   08:33   0:07 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_repserver
obsrun    1295  0.0  1.6 157644 32960 ?        S    08:34   0:07  \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_repserver
obsrun     816  0.0  1.8 167972 38600 ?        Ss   08:33   0:08 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_srcserver
obsrun    1296  0.0  1.8 168100 38864 ?        S    08:34   0:09  \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_srcserver
memcache   817  0.0  0.6 346964 12872 ?        Ssl  08:33   0:11 /usr/bin/memcached -m 64 -p 11211 -u memcache -l 127.0.0.1
obsrun     818  0.1  0.5  78548 11884 ?        Ss   08:33   0:41 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_dispatch
obsserv+   819  0.0  0.3  77516  7196 ?        Ss   08:33   0:05 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/obs/server/bs_service
mysql      851  0.0  0.0   4284  1324 ?        Ss   08:33   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
mysql     1239  0.2  6.3 1010744 130104 ?      Sl   08:33   1:31  \_ /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --log-error=/var/log/mysql/error.log --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306
# web services
root      1452  0.0  0.1 110020  3968 ?        Ss   08:34   0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root      1454  0.0  0.1 435992  3496 ?        Ssl  08:34   0:00  \_ Passenger watchdog
root      1460  0.3  0.2 651044  5188 ?        Sl   08:34   1:46      \_ Passenger core
nobody    1465  0.0  0.1 444572  3312 ?        Sl   08:34   0:00      \_ Passenger ust-router
www-data  1476  0.0  0.1 855892  2608 ?        Sl   08:34   0:09  \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1477  0.0  0.1 856068  2880 ?        Sl   08:34   0:09  \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1761  0.0  4.9 426868 102040 ?       Sl   08:34   0:29 delayed_job.0
www-data  1767  0.0  4.8 425624 99888 ?        Sl   08:34   0:30 delayed_job.1
www-data  1775  0.0  4.9 426516 101708 ?       Sl   08:34   0:28 delayed_job.2
nobody    1788  0.0  5.7 496092 117480 ?       Sl   08:34   0:03 Passenger RubyApp: /usr/share/obs/api
nobody    1796  0.0  4.9 488888 102176 ?       Sl   08:34   0:00 Passenger RubyApp: /usr/share/obs/api
www-data  1814  0.0  4.5 282576 92376 ?        Sl   08:34   0:22 delayed_job.1000
www-data  1829  0.0  4.4 282684 92228 ?        Sl   08:34   0:22 delayed_job.1010
www-data  1841  0.0  4.5 282932 92536 ?        Sl   08:34   0:22 delayed_job.1020
www-data  1855  0.0  4.9 427988 101492 ?       Sl   08:34   0:29 delayed_job.1030
www-data  1865  0.2  5.0 492500 102964 ?       Sl   08:34   1:09 clockworkd.clock
www-data  1899  0.0  0.0  87100  1400 ?        S    08:34   0:00 /usr/bin/searchd --pidfile --config /usr/share/obs/api/config/production.sphinx.conf
www-data  1900  0.1  0.4 161620  8276 ?        Sl   08:34   0:51  \_ /usr/bin/searchd --pidfile --config /usr/share/obs/api/config/production.sphinx.conf
# OBS worker
root      1604  0.0  0.0  28116  1492 ?        Ss   08:34   0:00 SCREEN -m -d -c /srv/obs/run/worker/boot/screenrc
root      1605  0.0  0.9  75424 18764 pts/0    Ss+  08:34   0:06  \_ /usr/bin/perl -w ./bs_worker --hardstatus --root /srv/obs/worker/root_1 --statedir /srv/obs/run/worker/1 --id stretch:1 --reposerver http://obs:5252 --jobs 1
Create an OBS project for Download on Demand (DoD) Create a meta project file: 
$ osc -A https://stretch:443 meta prj Debian:8 -e
<project name= Debian:8 >
<title>Debian 8 DoD</title>
<description>Debian 8 DoD</description>
<person userid= Admin role= maintainer />
<repository name= main >
<download arch= x86_64 url= http://deb.debian.org/debian/jessie/main repotype= deb />
<arch>x86_64</arch>
</repository>
</project>
Visit webUI to check project configuration Create a meta project configuration file: 
$ osc -A https://stretch:443 meta prjconf Debian:8 -e
Add the following file, as found at build.opensuse.org 
Repotype: debian
# create initial user
Preinstall: base-passwd
Preinstall: user-setup
# required for preinstall images
Preinstall: perl
# preinstall essentials + dependencies
Preinstall: base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils dash debconf
Preinstall: debianutils diffutils dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils gawk
Preinstall: gcc-4.9-base grep gzip hostname initscripts insserv libacl1
Preinstall: libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc-bin libc6 libcomerr2 libdb5.3
Preinstall: libgcc1 liblzma5 libmount1 libncurses5 libpam-modules
Preinstall: libpcre3 libsmartcols1
Preinstall: libpam-modules-bin libpam-runtime libpam0g libreadline6
Preinstall: libselinux1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libsepol1 libsigsegv2
Preinstall: libslang2 libss2 libtinfo5 libustr-1.0-1 libuuid1 login lsb-base
Preinstall: mount multiarch-support ncurses-base ncurses-bin passwd perl-base
Preinstall: readline-common sed sensible-utils sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils
Preinstall: tar tzdata util-linux zlib1g
Runscripts: base-passwd user-setup base-files gawk
VMinstall: libdevmapper1.02.1
Order: user-setup:base-files
# Essential packages (this should also pull the dependencies)
Support: base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils dash debianutils
Support: diffutils dpkg e2fsprogs findutils grep gzip hostname libc-bin 
Support: login mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin perl-base sed sysvinit 
Support: sysvinit-utils tar util-linux
# Build-essentials
Required: build-essential
Prefer: build-essential:make
# build script needs fakeroot
Support: fakeroot
# lintian support would be nice, but breaks too much atm
#Support: lintian
# helper tools in the chroot
Support: less kmod net-tools procps psmisc strace vim
# everything below same as for Debian:6.0 (apart from the version macros ofc)
# circular dependendencies in openjdk stack
Order: openjdk-6-jre-lib:openjdk-6-jre-headless
Order: openjdk-6-jre-headless:ca-certificates-java
Keep: binutils cpp cracklib file findutils gawk gcc gcc-ada gcc-c++
Keep: gzip libada libstdc++ libunwind
Keep: libunwind-devel libzio make mktemp pam-devel pam-modules
Keep: patch perl rcs timezone
Prefer: cvs libesd0 libfam0 libfam-dev expect
Prefer: gawk locales default-jdk
Prefer: xorg-x11-libs libpng fam mozilla mozilla-nss xorg-x11-Mesa
Prefer: unixODBC libsoup glitz java-1_4_2-sun gnome-panel
Prefer: desktop-data-SuSE gnome2-SuSE mono-nunit gecko-sharp2
Prefer: apache2-prefork openmotif-libs ghostscript-mini gtk-sharp
Prefer: glib-sharp libzypp-zmd-backend mDNSResponder
Prefer: -libgcc-mainline -libstdc++-mainline -gcc-mainline-c++
Prefer: -libgcj-mainline -viewperf -compat -compat-openssl097g
Prefer: -zmd -OpenOffice_org -pam-laus -libgcc-tree-ssa -busybox-links
Prefer: -crossover-office -libgnutls11-dev
# alternative pkg-config implementation
Prefer: -pkgconf
Prefer: -openrc
Prefer: -file-rc
Conflict: ghostscript-library:ghostscript-mini
Ignore: sysvinit:initscripts
Ignore: aaa_base:aaa_skel,suse-release,logrotate,ash,mingetty,distribution-release
Ignore: gettext-devel:libgcj,libstdc++-devel
Ignore: pwdutils:openslp
Ignore: pam-modules:resmgr
Ignore: rpm:suse-build-key,build-key
Ignore: bind-utils:bind-libs
Ignore: alsa:dialog,pciutils
Ignore: portmap:syslogd
Ignore: fontconfig:freetype2
Ignore: fontconfig-devel:freetype2-devel
Ignore: xorg-x11-libs:freetype2
Ignore: xorg-x11:x11-tools,resmgr,xkeyboard-config,xorg-x11-Mesa,libusb,freetype2,libjpeg,libpng
Ignore: apache2:logrotate
Ignore: arts:alsa,audiofile,resmgr,libogg,libvorbis
Ignore: kdelibs3:alsa,arts,pcre,OpenEXR,aspell,cups-libs,mDNSResponder,krb5,libjasper
Ignore: kdelibs3-devel:libvorbis-devel
Ignore: kdebase3:kdebase3-ksysguardd,OpenEXR,dbus-1,dbus-1-qt,hal,powersave,openslp,libusb
Ignore: kdebase3-SuSE:release-notes
Ignore: jack:alsa,libsndfile
Ignore: libxml2-devel:readline-devel
Ignore: gnome-vfs2:gnome-mime-data,desktop-file-utils,cdparanoia,dbus-1,dbus-1-glib,krb5,hal,libsmbclient,fam,file_alteration
Ignore: libgda:file_alteration
Ignore: gnutls:lzo,libopencdk
Ignore: gnutls-devel:lzo-devel,libopencdk-devel
Ignore: pango:cairo,glitz,libpixman,libpng
Ignore: pango-devel:cairo-devel
Ignore: cairo-devel:libpixman-devel
Ignore: libgnomeprint:libgnomecups
Ignore: libgnomeprintui:libgnomecups
Ignore: orbit2:libidl
Ignore: orbit2-devel:libidl,libidl-devel,indent
Ignore: qt3:libmng
Ignore: qt-sql:qt_database_plugin
Ignore: gtk2:libpng,libtiff
Ignore: libgnomecanvas-devel:glib-devel
Ignore: libgnomeui:gnome-icon-theme,shared-mime-info
Ignore: scrollkeeper:docbook_4,sgml-skel
Ignore: gnome-desktop:libgnomesu,startup-notification
Ignore: python-devel:python-tk
Ignore: gnome-pilot:gnome-panel
Ignore: gnome-panel:control-center2
Ignore: gnome-menus:kdebase3
Ignore: gnome-main-menu:rug
Ignore: libbonoboui:gnome-desktop
Ignore: postfix:pcre
Ignore: docbook_4:iso_ent,sgml-skel,xmlcharent
Ignore: control-center2:nautilus,evolution-data-server,gnome-menus,gstreamer-plugins,gstreamer,metacity,mozilla-nspr,mozilla,libxklavier,gnome-desktop,startup-notification
Ignore: docbook-xsl-stylesheets:xmlcharent
Ignore: liby2util-devel:libstdc++-devel,openssl-devel
Ignore: yast2:yast2-ncurses,yast2-theme-SuSELinux,perl-Config-Crontab,yast2-xml,SuSEfirewall2
Ignore: yast2-core:netcat,hwinfo,wireless-tools,sysfsutils
Ignore: yast2-core-devel:libxcrypt-devel,hwinfo-devel,blocxx-devel,sysfsutils,libstdc++-devel
Ignore: yast2-packagemanager-devel:rpm-devel,curl-devel,openssl-devel
Ignore: yast2-devtools:perl-XML-Writer,libxslt,pkgconfig
Ignore: yast2-installation:yast2-update,yast2-mouse,yast2-country,yast2-bootloader,yast2-packager,yast2-network,yast2-online-update,yast2-users,release-notes,autoyast2-installation
Ignore: yast2-bootloader:bootloader-theme
Ignore: yast2-packager:yast2-x11
Ignore: yast2-x11:sax2-libsax-perl
Ignore: openslp-devel:openssl-devel
Ignore: java-1_4_2-sun:xorg-x11-libs
Ignore: java-1_4_2-sun-devel:xorg-x11-libs
Ignore: kernel-um:xorg-x11-libs
Ignore: tetex:xorg-x11-libs,expat,fontconfig,freetype2,libjpeg,libpng,ghostscript-x11,xaw3d,gd,dialog,ed
Ignore: yast2-country:yast2-trans-stats
Ignore: susehelp:susehelp_lang,suse_help_viewer
Ignore: mailx:smtp_daemon
Ignore: cron:smtp_daemon
Ignore: hotplug:syslog
Ignore: pcmcia:syslog
Ignore: avalon-logkit:servlet
Ignore: jython:servlet
Ignore: ispell:ispell_dictionary,ispell_english_dictionary
Ignore: aspell:aspel_dictionary,aspell_dictionary
Ignore: smartlink-softmodem:kernel,kernel-nongpl
Ignore: OpenOffice_org-de:myspell-german-dictionary
Ignore: mediawiki:php-session,php-gettext,php-zlib,php-mysql,mod_php_any
Ignore: squirrelmail:mod_php_any,php-session,php-gettext,php-iconv,php-mbstring,php-openssl
Ignore: simias:mono(log4net)
Ignore: zmd:mono(log4net)
Ignore: horde:mod_php_any,php-gettext,php-mcrypt,php-imap,php-pear-log,php-pear,php-session,php
Ignore: xerces-j2:xml-commons-apis,xml-commons-resolver
Ignore: xdg-menu:desktop-data
Ignore: nessus-libraries:nessus-core
Ignore: evolution:yelp
Ignore: mono-tools:mono(gconf-sharp),mono(glade-sharp),mono(gnome-sharp),mono(gtkhtml-sharp),mono(atk-sharp),mono(gdk-sharp),mono(glib-sharp),mono(gtk-sharp),mono(pango-sharp)
Ignore: gecko-sharp2:mono(glib-sharp),mono(gtk-sharp)
Ignore: vcdimager:libcdio.so.6,libcdio.so.6(CDIO_6),libiso9660.so.4,libiso9660.so.4(ISO9660_4)
Ignore: libcdio:libcddb.so.2
Ignore: gnome-libs:libgnomeui
Ignore: nautilus:gnome-themes
Ignore: gnome-panel:gnome-themes
Ignore: gnome-panel:tomboy
Substitute: utempter
%ifnarch s390 s390x ppc ia64
Substitute: java2-devel-packages java-1_4_2-sun-devel
%else
 %ifnarch s390x
Substitute: java2-devel-packages java-1_4_2-ibm-devel
 %else
Substitute: java2-devel-packages java-1_4_2-ibm-devel xorg-x11-libs-32bit
 %endif
%endif
Substitute: yast2-devel-packages docbook-xsl-stylesheets doxygen libxslt perl-XML-Writer popt-devel sgml-skel update-desktop-files yast2 yast2-devtools yast2-packagemanager-devel yast2-perl-bindings yast2-testsuite
#
# SUSE compat mappings
#
Substitute: gcc-c++ gcc
Substitute: libsigc++2-devel libsigc++-2.0-dev
Substitute: glibc-devel-32bit
Substitute: pkgconfig pkg-config
%ifarch %ix86
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-default kernel-smp kernel-bigsmp kernel-debug kernel-um kernel-xen kernel-kdump
%endif
%ifarch ia64
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-default kernel-debug
%endif
%ifarch x86_64
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-default kernel-smp kernel-xen kernel-kdump
%endif
%ifarch ppc
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-default kernel-kdump kernel-ppc64 kernel-iseries64
%endif
%ifarch ppc64
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-ppc64 kernel-iseries64
%endif
%ifarch s390
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-s390
%endif
%ifarch s390x
Substitute: kernel-binary-packages kernel-default
%endif
%define debian_version 800
Macros:
%debian_version 800
Visit webUI to check project configuration Create an OBS project linked to DoD 
$ osc -A https://stretch:443 meta prj test -e
<project name= test >
<title>test</title>
<description>test</description>
<person userid= Admin role= maintainer />
<repository name= Debian_8.0 >
<path project= Debian:8 repository= main />
<arch>x86_64</arch>
</repository>
</project>
Visit webUI to check project configuration Adding a package to the project 
$ osc -A https://stretch:443 co test ; cd test
$ mkdir hello ; cd hello ; apt-get source -d hello ; cd - ; 
$ osc add hello 
$ osc ci -m "New import" hello
The package should go to dispatched state then get in blocked state while it downloads build dependencies from DoD link, eventually it should start building. Please check the journal logs to check if something went wrong or gets stuck. Visit webUI to check hello package build state OBS logging to the journal Check in the journal logs everything went fine:
 
$ sudo journalctl -u obsdispatcher.service -u obsdodup.service -u obsscheduler@x86_64.service -u obsworker.service -u obspublisher.service
Troubleshooting Currently we are facing few issues with web UI: And there are more issues that have not been reported, please do reportbug obs-api .

30 September 2016

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in September 2016

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world (previous month):
Reproducible builds

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most Linux distributions provide binary (or "compiled") packages to end users. The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced either maliciously and accidentally during this compilation process by promising identical binary packages are always generated from a given source. My work in the Reproducible Builds project was also covered in our weekly reports #71, #72, #71 & #74. I made the following improvements to our tools:

diffoscope

diffoscope is our "diff on steroids" that will not only recursively unpack archives but will transform binary formats into human-readable forms in order to compare them.

  • Added a global Progress object to track the status of the comparison process allowing for graphical and machine-readable status indicators. I also blogged about this feature in more detail.
  • Moved the global Config object to a more Pythonic "singleton" pattern and ensured that constraints are checked on every change.

disorderfs

disorderfs is our FUSE filesystem that deliberately introduces nondeterminism into the results of system calls such as readdir(3).

  • Display the "disordered" behaviour we intend to show on startup. (#837689)
  • Support relative paths in command-line parameters (previously only absolute paths were permitted).

strip-nondeterminism

strip-nondeterminism is our tool to remove specific information from a completed build.

  • Fix an issue where temporary files were being left on the filesystem and add a test to avoid similar issues in future. (#836670)
  • Print an error if the file to normalise does not exist. (#800159)
  • Testsuite improvements:
    • Set the timezone in tests to avoid a FTBFS and add a File::StripNondeterminism::init method to the API to to set tzset everywhere. (#837382)
    • "Smoke test" the strip-nondeterminism(1) and dh_strip_nondeterminism(1) scripts to prevent syntax regressions.
    • Add a testcase for .jar file ordering and normalisation.
    • Check the stripping process before comparing file attributes to make it less confusing on failure.
    • Move to a lookup table for descriptions of stat(1) indices and use that for nicer failure messages.
    • Don't uselessly test whether the inode number has changed.
  • Run perlcritic across the codebase and adopt some of its prescriptions including explicitly using oct(..) for integers with leading zeroes, avoiding mixing high and low-precedence booleans, ensuring subroutines end with a return statement, etc.

I also submitted 4 patches to fix specific reproducibility issues in golang-google-grpc, nostalgy, python-xlib & torque.


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Patches contributed
Debian LTS

This month I have been paid to work 12.75 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS). In that time I did the following:
  • "Frontdesk" duties, triaging CVEs, etc.
  • Issued DLA 608-1 for mailman fixing a CSRF vulnerability.
  • Issued DLA 611-1 for jsch correcting a path traversal vulnerability.
  • Issued DLA 620-1 for libphp-adodb patching a SQL injection vulnerability.
  • Issued DLA 631-1 for unadf correcting a buffer underflow issue.
  • Issued DLA 634-1 for dropbear fixing a buffer overflow when parsing ASN.1 keys.
  • Issued DLA 635-1 for dwarfutils working around an out-of-bounds read issue.
  • Issued DLA 638-1 for the SELinux policycoreutils, patching a sandbox escape issue.
  • Enhanced Brian May's find-work --unassigned switch to take an optional "except this user" argument.
  • Marked matrixssl and inspircd as being unsupported in the current LTS version.
Uploads
  • python-django 1:1.10.1-1 New upstream release and ensure that django-admin startproject foo creates files with the correct shebang under Python 3.
  • gunicorn:
    • 19.6.0-5 Don't call chown(2) if it would be a no-op to avoid failure under snap.
    • 19.6.0-6 Remove now-obsolete conffiles and logrotate scripts; they should have been removed in 19.6.0-3.
  • redis:
    • 3.2.3-2 Call ulimit -n 65536 by default from SysVinit scripts to normalise the behaviour with systemd. I also bumped the Debian package epoch as the "2:" prefix made it look like we are shipping version 2.x. I additionaly backported this upload to Debian Jessie.
    • 3.2.4-1 New upstream release, add missing -ldl for dladdr(3) & add missing dependency on lsb-base.
  • python-redis (2.10.5-2) Bump python-hiredis to Suggests to sync with Ubuntu and move to a machine-readable debian/copyright. I also backported this upload to Debian Jessie.
  • adminer (4.2.5-3) Move mysql-server dependencies to default-mysql-server. I also backported this upload to Debian Jessie.
  • gpsmanshp (1.2.3-5) on behalf of the QA team:
    • Move to "minimal" debhelper style, making the build reproducible. (#777446 & #792991)
    • Reorder linker command options to build with --as-needed (#729726) and add hardening flags.
    • Move to machine-readable copyright file, add missing #DEBHELPER# tokens to postinst and prerm scripts, tidy descriptions & other debian/control fields and other smaller changes.

I sponsored the upload of 5 packages from other developers:

I also NMU'd:


FTP Team

As a Debian FTP assistant I ACCEPTed 147 packages: alljoyn-services-1604, android-platform-external-doclava, android-platform-system-tools-aidl, aufs, bcolz, binwalk, bmusb, bruteforce-salted-openssl, cappuccino, captagent, chrome-gnome-shell, ciphersaber, cmark, colorfultabs, cppformat, dnsrecon, dogtag-pki, dxtool, e2guardian, flask-compress, fonts-mononoki, fwknop-gui, gajim-httpupload, glbinding, glewmx, gnome-2048, golang-github-googleapis-proto-client-go, google-android-installers, gsl, haskell-hmatrix-gsl, haskell-relational-query, haskell-relational-schemas, haskell-secret-sharing, hindsight, i8c, ip4r, java-string-similarity, khal, khronos-opencl-headers, liblivemedia, libshell-config-generate-perl, libshell-guess-perl, libstaroffice, libxml2, libzonemaster-perl, linux, linux-grsec-base, linux-signed, lua-sandbox, lua-torch-trepl, mbrola-br2, mbrola-br4, mbrola-de1, mbrola-de2, mbrola-de3, mbrola-ir1, mbrola-lt1, mbrola-lt2, mbrola-mx1, mimeo, mimerender, mongo-tools, mozilla-gnome-keyring, munin, node-grunt-cli, node-js-yaml, nova, open-build-service, openzwave, orafce, osmalchemy, pgespresso, pgextwlist, pgfincore, pgmemcache, pgpool2, pgsql-asn1oid, postbooks-schema, postgis, postgresql-debversion, postgresql-multicorn, postgresql-mysql-fdw, postgresql-unit, powerline-taskwarrior, prefix, pycares, pydl, pynliner, pytango, pytest-cookies, python-adal, python-applicationinsights, python-async-timeout, python-azure, python-azure-storage, python-blosc, python-can, python-canmatrix, python-chartkick, python-confluent-kafka, python-jellyfish, python-k8sclient, python-msrestazure, python-nss, python-pytest-benchmark, python-tenacity, python-tmdbsimple, python-typing, python-unidiff, python-xstatic-angular-schema-form, python-xstatic-tv4, quilt, r-bioc-phyloseq, r-cran-filehash, r-cran-png, r-cran-testit, r-cran-tikzdevice, rainbow-mode, repmgr, restart-emacs, restbed, ruby-azure-sdk, ruby-babel-source, ruby-babel-transpiler, ruby-diaspora-prosody-config, ruby-haikunator, ruby-license-finder, ruby-ms-rest, ruby-ms-rest-azure, ruby-rails-assets-autosize, ruby-rails-assets-blueimp-gallery, ruby-rails-assets-bootstrap, ruby-rails-assets-bootstrap-markdown, ruby-rails-assets-emojione, ruby-sprockets-es6, ruby-timeliness, rustc, skytools3, slony1-2, snmp-mibs-downloader, syslog-ng, test-kitchen, uctodata, usbguard, vagrant-azure, vagrant-mutate & vim.

1 December 2015

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in November 2015

FTP assistant This month I marked 352 packages for accept and rejected 61 of them. I had to send only 15 emails to maintainers. I also started to work on #796095 and #796784, but my first patch was rejected. So expect more to come here Squeeze LTS This was my seventeenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. Due to Toshiba becoming the first platinum sponsor, I got a workload of 21.25h. This is a new and delightful record! Altogether I uploaded those DLAs: I also started to work on two bugs that were filed against the pseudo-package ftp.debian.org, which are somehow related to the security team: #796095 and #796784 (see above). Moreover I started to work on the next php5 upload, which will happen at the end of December. As more and more people work at the LTS frontdesk now, this month I could chill out a bit and let the others do the work. Other stuff As the Advent season started again I would also like to draw some attention to the Debian Med Advent Calendar. It was announced here and like the past years, the Debian Med team starts a bug squashing event from the December 1st to 24th. Every bug that is closed will be registered in the calendar. So instead of taking something from the calendar, this special one will be filled and at Christmas hopefully every Debian Med related bug is closed. Don t hestitate, start to squash :-) .

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