firefox 1.5 vs 2

Hi All,

Recently Mozilla came up with a security update of the firefox-1.5 
browser (firefox-1.5.0.10)
the pango patch aplies cleanly, but not the nss patch (both intended for 
the 1.5.0.9 version)
after some tinkering I came up with a modified patch 
(firefox-1.5.0.10-system_nss-1.patch), attached to this e-mail.
This patch seems to work on my system (a slightly modified lfs-6.2 with 
stock blfs-6.2.0) (the lfs-6.2 is synched with lfs-svn-20070203 on 
kernel(headers),udev,sysklogd, util-linux, vim and bootscripts). A full 
package list is available for interested parties.

Also on the website of mozilla it is mentioned that security updates on 
the 1.5 branche will stop on april 24th 2007, so I suggest blfs-svn to 
move firefox to the 2.0 branch. I would be interested in taking up that 
challange, but may not have time available on a structural basis.

comments on both the patch and my suggestion are appreciated :)

regards, Fenna

diff -Naur mozilla-orig/aclocal.m4 mozilla/aclocal.m4
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+++ mozilla/aclocal.m4	2007-03-01 23:51:04.000000000 +0100
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Re: firefox 1.5 vs 2

On 3/1/07, fenna <fenna <at> erpel.demon.nl> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Recently Mozilla came up with a security update of the firefox-1.5
> browser (firefox-1.5.0.10)
> the pango patch aplies cleanly, but not the nss patch (both intended for
> the 1.5.0.9 version)
> after some tinkering I came up with a modified patch
> (firefox-1.5.0.10-system_nss-1.patch), attached to this e-mail.
> This patch seems to work on my system (a slightly modified lfs-6.2 with
> stock blfs-6.2.0) (the lfs-6.2 is synched with lfs-svn-20070203 on
> kernel(headers),udev,sysklogd, util-linux, vim and bootscripts). A full
> package list is available for interested parties.

Did you apply the nss patch first or the pango patch? The nss patch
needs to apply first because they both play with configure*.

> Also on the website of mozilla it is mentioned that security updates on
> the 1.5 branche will stop on april 24th 2007, so I suggest blfs-svn to
> move firefox to the 2.0 branch. I would be interested in taking up that
> challange, but may not have time available on a structural basis.

I'm getting there. I have 2.0.0.1 on my system, I'm just busy with
other stuff right now.

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Re: firefox 1.5 vs 2

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Did you apply the nss patch first or the pango patch? The nss patch
> needs to apply first because they both play with configure*.
>
>   
Initialy I applied the patches in the order of the blfs-6.2.0 book 
(first pango, then nss) and after re-reading the instructions I did not 
find it clear that the order should be nss first and pango second.

However after trying the modified nss patch first and than the original 
pango patch, the pango patched applied but with offsets.
> I'm getting there. I have 2.0.0.1 on my system, I'm just busy with
> other stuff right now.
>
>   
Ok no need to invent the wheel twice, but an offer to help stands with 
the provision of not having time available on a structural basis.
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Re: firefox 1.5 vs 2

On 3/1/07, fenna <fenna <at> erpel.demon.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > Did you apply the nss patch first or the pango patch? The nss patch
> > needs to apply first because they both play with configure*.
> >
> >
> Initialy I applied the patches in the order of the blfs-6.2.0 book
> (first pango, then nss) and after re-reading the instructions I did not
> find it clear that the order should be nss first and pango second.
>
> However after trying the modified nss patch first and than the original
> pango patch, the pango patched applied but with offsets.

Yes, that has to happen with one patch or the other because they both
affect the same file.

> > I'm getting there. I have 2.0.0.1 on my system, I'm just busy with
> > other stuff right now.
> >
> Ok no need to invent the wheel twice, but an offer to help stands with
> the provision of not having time available on a structural basis.

If you have any particular notes, please add them to the ticket.

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2218

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PostgreSQL

Attempting to update svn to PostgreSQL-8.2.3:

the http download url is anduin, I don't believe I can upload to the 
required directory, its root:root.

Things have changed since I was really actively editing.  I know from a 
brief stint in Sept/Oct I do not need to update anduin, but I wonder, 
the address is in the BOOK, different than usual.

Can anyone advise me here? It is ready to commit except for the http url.

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Re: PostgreSQL

On 3/1/07, David Jensen <djensen <at> inebraska.com> wrote:
> Attempting to update svn to PostgreSQL-8.2.3:
>
> the http download url is anduin, I don't believe I can upload to the
> required directory, its root:root.
>
> Things have changed since I was really actively editing.  I know from a
> brief stint in Sept/Oct I do not need to update anduin, but I wonder,
> the address is in the BOOK, different than usual.

Hmm, that's weird. We don't do that anywhere else in the book from
what I can tell. Also, the sources on anduin should update
automatically from the book sources. I think this is what the mirrors
sync to.

Other packages where there's only one available url have the other
left blank (like all the Sourceforge ones).

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/mesalib.html

So, I'd empty the http url unless it's the only one available. And if
you want to keep it, you should just be able to change the link, and
it will the should be there after the next cron job on anduin.

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Re: PostgreSQL

David Jensen wrote:
> Attempting to update svn to PostgreSQL-8.2.3:
> 
> the http download url is anduin, I don't believe I can upload to the 
> required directory, its root:root.
> 
> Things have changed since I was really actively editing.  I know from a 
> brief stint in Sept/Oct I do not need to update anduin, but I wonder, 
> the address is in the BOOK, different than usual.
> 
> Can anyone advise me here? It is ready to commit except for the http url.

anduin is updated by Justin via rsync.  He manages the master for all
ftp downloads and the mirrors update via rsync.

Just use the developer htt[/ftp address.

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Netcat?

Hello all,

one of the first tools I missed from a basic LFS system was netcat¹.
It's part of most distributions I know and I use it quite regularly. So
not being mentioned in BLFS, I thought it would be straight to build,
but that proved wrong. Perhaps because of the age of the package
(1996!), it just won't compile out of the box.

Another oddity is the fact that the tarball doesn't extract in it's own
subdirectory.

I created a patch² for building it, replacing the Makefile completely
and adding #includes to one source file. The original author tried to
build static binaries, but I can't see how this should be useful for
LFS, so my own Makefile creates dynamically linked binaries.

Do you think this would be a good addendum to the network tools section
of BLFS?

Regards, Felix

¹ <http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/>
² <http://palmen.homeip.net/~fmp/patches/nc-1.10-build_fixes-1.patch>

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Re: Netcat?

Felix M. Palmen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> one of the first tools I missed from a basic LFS system was netcat¹.
> It's part of most distributions I know and I use it quite regularly. So
> not being mentioned in BLFS, I thought it would be straight to build,
> but that proved wrong. Perhaps because of the age of the package
> (1996!), it just won't compile out of the box.
> 
> Another oddity is the fact that the tarball doesn't extract in it's own
> subdirectory.
> 
> I created a patch² for building it, replacing the Makefile completely
> and adding #includes to one source file. The original author tried to
> build static binaries, but I can't see how this should be useful for
> LFS, so my own Makefile creates dynamically linked binaries.
> 
> Do you think this would be a good addendum to the network tools section
> of BLFS?
> 
> Regards, Felix
> 
> ¹ <http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/>
> ² <http://palmen.homeip.net/~fmp/patches/nc-1.10-build_fixes-1.patch>

This would be a good candidate for the wiki right now.  Why don't you
add it?  I created an empty page at

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/othernetworkingutilities

Fwd: XFCE 4.4 up and running

Some very nice info about xfce-4.4. I've linked to the mail in #2292.

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From: Wilco Beekhuizen <wilcobeekhuizen <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2007 8:18 AM
Subject: XFCE 4.4 up and running
To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support <at> linuxfromscratch.org>

I have succesfully installed XFCE 4.4. It's up and running fine. So
far I've discovered these issues:
- If you want desktop icons (more than just icons from minimized apps)
you need to have dbus installed. I tried with dbus-1.0.2 and
dbus-glib-0.73. In the BLFS book is an old dbus version. The new
version requires the seperate dbus-glib package.

- For thunar to recognize changes to the filesystem automatically you
need gamin. Tried with the book version (0.17) and works fine. Gamin
0.18 has some problems (performance and not always working).

- Image preview support in Thunar requires, besides images libraries,
shared-mime-info. Without /usr/share/mime I couldn't get image preview
support. So this is a recommend dependency.

- Icons in Thunar depend on an icon theme in /usr/share/icons. The
default icon theme from the xfce package installs this so you don't
need to change ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
The hicolor-icon-theme provides optional icons not in the xfce icon