In the light of yesterday’s large coordinated release of DNS related updates to various products, I would like to point you to the updated bind packages in the portage tree.
net-dns/bind-9.4.2_p1 is currently being marked stable on all supported architectures
net-dns/bind-9.5.0_p1 has been committed with unstable keywords
Nameservers should be updated quite soon, since this issue should be [...]
When having a look at git yesterday, I stumbled upon etckeeper, a tool to keep /etc in a git (or mercurial) repository and also keeps the metadata (file permissions, …) in the repo making use of metastore.
It hooks into apt but I used /etc/portage/basrc to call it before and after installing a package:
case “$EBUILD_PHASE” [...]
Just a little side note…
Tonight at 01:58:31 UTC we passed epoch 1111111111 (the number of seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC).
$ date -u –date=”Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 UTC 2005″ +%s
1111111111
First of all: Hello Planet Gentoo
Great to see the planet alive now
Two GLSAs have just been released:
GLSA 200503-15 – X.org: libXpm vulnerability
GLSA 200503-16 – Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
More are waiting in the queue already of course
Tips for searching Bugzilla for security bugs can be found here by the way.
SecurityFocus published an article by Thierry Carrez (aka koon, operational manager of the Gentoo security team) today about the doubtful rating of the security of a product by the number of published advisory, worth a look
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