Saturday 16 June 2018

This Week's Slackware Current Changelog Updates

Blimey, lots of activity in the Slackware changelog in the last few days so we'll better post them all together. Otherwise you could of course just look at the Slackware page or subscribe to the emails. So here we are. Does all this activity mean we're nearing a release? Let's hope so.


Sat Jun 16 05:59:57 UTC 2018
d/cmake-3.11.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/strace-4.23-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/crda-3.18-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
       Upgraded to wireless-regdb-2018.05.31.
n/ethtool-4.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/mesa-18.1.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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Fri Jun 15 04:12:46 UTC 2018
a/efibootmgr-16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/efivar-35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
       Switch to efivar-35, since 36 seems to have problems. Thanks to _RDS_.
ap/slackpkg-2.83.0-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't remove ChangeLog.txt upon upgrade/reinstall.
       Use CHECKSUMS.md5.asc to determine if ChangeLog.txt is unchanged.
       Remove dead bjtu.edu.cn mirrors from the sample mirrors files.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
       Include libefivar.so.1 on the installer (needed by efibootmgr).
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
       Include libefivar.so.1 on the installer (needed by efibootmgr).
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Fri Jun 15 00:03:49 UTC 2018
a/dcron-4.5-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
       rc.crond: match the running process more accurately.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2018e-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't emit an error if the /etc/localtime-copied-from is not present when
       the package is initially installed.
a/libcgroup-0.41-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
       Added /etc/cgconfig.d/ directory.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-19.txz: Rebuilt.
       installpkg, makebootdisk, removepkg, upgradepkg: don't try to remove admin
       directories (supposedly "in case" they are a symlink).
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-12.txz: Rebuilt.
       rc.6: stop haveged
       rc.S: start rc.cgconfig and rc.cgred
ap/at-3.1.20-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
       rc.atd: match the running process more accurately.
ap/slackpkg-2.83.0-noarch-2.txz: Rebuilt.
       Patched to handle the case where /var/log/packages is a symlink.
l/gsl-2.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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Wed Jun 13 21:55:19 UTC 2018
a/etc-15.0-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't hardcode passwd/shadow/group additions in doinst.sh - get them from
       the .new files.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-11.txz: Rebuilt.
       rc.S: don't start rc.haveged in this script - move it to rc.M.
       rc.M: start rc.haveged after seeding /dev/urandom in rc.S, and after
       starting syslogd, klogd, and udev in rc.M.
       rc.M: start rc.rndg (we don't ship it or rng-tools) after udev.
       H. Peter Anvin says that it's fine to run both haveged and rndg,
       and I trust his opinion on that.
       Thanks to GazL.
ap/at-3.1.20-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
       Fixed wrong variable in rc.atd. Thanks to upnort.
n/libgcrypt-1.8.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
       Use blinding for ECDSA signing to mitigate a novel side-channel attack.
       For more information, see:
       https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/
       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0495
       (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+
Wed Jun 13 05:43:00 UTC 2018
a/dcron-4.5-x86_64-7.txz: Rebuilt.
       Added init script and defaults file.
       Moved TMPDIR to /run/cron.
       Thanks to Robby Workman and shasta.
a/efibootmgr-16-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/efivar-36-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
a/elilo-3.16-x86_64-7.txz: Rebuilt.
a/glibc-solibs-2.27-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't restart init in the install script, let rc.6 handle it.
a/haveged-1.9.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-18.txz: Rebuilt.
       setup.services: add support for rc.atd and rc.crond
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-10.txz: Rebuilt.
       rc.6: restart init when shutting down - this prevents it from holding file
       handles to removed/upgraded versions of the glibc shared libraries which
       would interfere with shutdown.
       rc.K: use full path to telinit
       rc.M: start rc.atd and rc.crond
       rc.M: don't remove cron tempfiles (moved to /run/cron)
       rc.S: start rc.haveged
ap/at-3.1.20-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
       Added init script and defaults file.
l/glibc-2.27-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't restart init in the install script, let rc.6 handle it.
l/glibc-i18n-2.27-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-profile-2.27-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/gnu-efi-3.0.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

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