Hello On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:54:33PM -0500, Micah wrote: > Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:19:42PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > > > >>Package: util-vserver > >>Version: 0.30.207-9 > >>Severity: wishlist > >> > >>Version 0.30.208 fixes a significant number of problems, and works > >>more properly with the newer patches. > > > > > > I'll upgrade to the latest version. Do you have a pointer to the exact > > problems? Just want to make sure that version 207 enter testing first. That > > is fix the build issues on some arches. > > The fixes between .207 and .208 are several months in the making, the > best way to see all the details would be to get the latest tarball and > look at the Changelog file. Lots of small bug fixes... some security > fixes to the capability system (CAP_AUDIT stuff and the default behavior > is to assume unknown capabilities are insecure); the barrier-code has
Do you know if these are security vulnerabilities or just enhancements. If there are known holes I would like to know. If so it has be be backported to stable... > been adjusted to work properly with the 1.2.10 patch. The code has been > updated to work with the newer available patches more cleanly (in the > headers etc.). Some build-time enhancements, such as checking to see if > a context is already active before starting a build, removing a failed > built vservers (unless an argument is passed), resulting in less cruft > laying around; numeric xids are supported in vserver-info; syscalls are > updated to newest versions, debootstrap status information enhanced. Ahh maybe they included my code finally. :) Several such things has been in the Debian package for long. > Some legacy problems were resolved, chroot code was enhanced.... > > I can't remember everything that I've seen go by in the CVS tree, but it > is commonly said on the IRC channel that the .208 version is a vast > improvement over .207 and whenever people come in for help and it is > found out that they are using the debian packaged .207, they are > immediately told to go compile and install .208. Yeah I have heard that from Herbert Poetzl as well... :) Regards, // Ola > micah > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
