Re: Proposal: security-patch team for hamm
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:02:28AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Joop Stakenborg <aba@casema.net> writes:
>
> > We are a group of 500 developers. There must be some people out there
> > who are interested in setting this up.
>
> Precisely. So lets not even worry about official blessing -- those
> who are interested (developers, or not) should just go ahead and do
> it. If it's sucessful, maybe we could get some official blessing and
> space on archive.debian.org.
>
> But I'm dubious anyone will actually bother...
Well, that sounded like a challenge if I ever heard one. So I went through
all the security announcements since slink went stable, in order to compile
any hamm-compatible .deb's that were needed. Here's what I came up with:
- xfs and XFree86 were not vulnerable in slink; I assume the same for hamm;
- ipopd, mailman, and kernel-2.2 weren't even in hamm in the first place; &
- the fixed procmail and man-db packages install fine under hamm already.
And of course everyone has patched up to at least kernel 2.0.37 so we've all
rolled our own new lsof-2.0.37 already anyway. So that's it, i.e. no extra
work is needed to bring hamm's packages up to speed. Whooda thunkit? (-:
I will happily keep checking new security-related package releases and provide
hamm-compatible ones on my website when needed (assuming I'm still on hamm),
http://skyron.harvard.edu/debian/ . The lsof-2.0.37 .deb is on there now.
cheers all
jg
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