Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

2014-04-04 Thread Artyom Poptsov
Hello Mark, thank you for pointing me out to this problem. I do understand that due to the aforementioned vulnerability Guile-SSH cannot do its job well. So I'll port Guile-SSH to libssh 0.6.3 where the vulnerability was closed. I think this solution is acceptable. - Artyom -- Artyom Poptsov

Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

2014-04-04 Thread Artyom Poptsov
Hi. > Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH > 0.6.0. I attach some of the test logs. Any idea what’s going on? Well, I think the problem is that there are changes in the API between libssh 0.5 and libssh 0.6. So Guile-SSH must be updated to be able to work with lib

Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Artyom Poptsov skribis: >> Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH >> 0.6.0. I attach some of the test logs. Any idea what’s going on? > > Well, I think the problem is that there are changes in the API between > libssh 0.5 and libssh 0.6. So Guile-SSH must be updated

Re: 'Shadow' package home page and tarball no longer accessible

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > FYI, for well over a month now, our 'shadow' package cannot be built > because the tarball URL is no longer accessible. The home page is no > longer accessible either. I finally looked into this, and found this > post on the mailing list: > > > https://lists.alioth.d

Re: Include kernel in hash (Re: [PATCH] fix python)

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alírio Eyng skribis: > On 4/4/14, Eric Bavier wrote: >> Alírio Eyng writes: >> >>> This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# >>> CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' >> >> This does not fix the error it claims to fix on my machine. > > I think I got a substitute from hydra, and a

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eric Bavier skribis: > +(license (package-license perl)) I think the license should be stated literally–changing Perl’s license won’t automatically change the license of these packages. OK to push with this change. Thanks! Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > I think these should be three separate commits. Either way is fine with me. Since it doesn’t modify any existing package, there’s little to gain by making it three commits, except review/clarity. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eric Bavier skribis: > I took that blurb from the packages website, but I would agree with your > wording suggestion. Since this isn't a GNU package I think we're free > to apply our own judgement on such things. Yes. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] fix python

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eric Bavier skribis: > Alírio Eyng writes: > >> This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# >> CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' > > This does not fix the error it claims to fix on my machine. Yeah, as discussed in the other thread, there’s no obvious way to fix that on systems

Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

2014-04-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
Artyom Poptsov writes: >> Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH >> 0.6.0. I attach some of the test logs. Any idea what’s going on? > > Well, I think the problem is that there are changes in the API between > libssh 0.5 and libssh 0.6. So Guile-SSH must be updated

Re: Can unprivileged users corrupt the store with bad tarballs?

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> I was thinking about the security implications of giving out shell >>> access to one of my systems running Guix. >>> >>> When I ask guix-daemon to build package 'foo', it will use as an input >>> t

Include kernel in hash (Re: [PATCH] fix python)

2014-04-04 Thread Alírio Eyng
On 4/4/14, Eric Bavier wrote: > Alírio Eyng writes: > >> This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# >> CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' > > This does not fix the error it claims to fix on my machine. I think I got a substitute from hydra, and after that commit, guix was buildin

Re: gdb-7.7 test failures

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > I think we should disable tests in gdb before the 0.6 release. > What do you think? Yes, sounds like it. Afterwards we should work on that with input from the GDB people. Thanks for investigating! Ludo’.

Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Artyom, Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH 0.6.0. I attach some of the test logs. Any idea what’s going on? TIA, Ludo’. === Guile-SSH 0.6.0: tests/test-suite.log === # TOTA

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Eric Bavier
Sree Harsha Totakura writes: > On 04/04/2014 05:15 PM, Eric Bavier wrote: >> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (clusterssh): New variable > > I am actually in need of something like this. I am using parallel-ssh, but > this > looks very promising. Thank you! Great. I'm glad it can be of use to someon

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
I think these should be three separate commits. Mark

Re: [PATCH] fix python

2014-04-04 Thread Eric Bavier
Alírio Eyng writes: > This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# > CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' This does not fix the error it claims to fix on my machine. It also undoes commit bb184d9884891ad190f2ebc4ffb71d6f361ab488 The errors I get from building python-3.3.3 are: ===

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
On 04/04/2014 05:15 PM, Eric Bavier wrote: > * gnu/packages/admin.scm (clusterssh): New variable I am actually in need of something like this. I am using parallel-ssh, but this looks very promising. Thank you! > +(description > + "ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a sing

[PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh

2014-04-04 Thread Eric Bavier
>From 61b06fceed500729230e87a721d37b5d3af7bc26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Bavier Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:12:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-tk, perl-x11-protocol, and clusterssh * gnu/packages/admin.scm (clusterssh): New variable * gnu/packages/tcl.scm (perl-tk): New variable *

[PATCH] fix python

2014-04-04 Thread Alírio Eyng
This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' >From 0757ec00fa23ed82b14e272b6329f6d89e2f5dd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:28:02 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python: Revert "gnu: Remove unused

GSoC: slot request deadline on Apr. 6th

2014-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, All the project’s participating in GSoC under GNU’s umbrella need to send their number of requested slots by Apr. 6th. At the moment it seems clear to me that Manolis Ragkousis will be working on the GNU/Hurd port, but I’m unsure about the other proposals since we haven’t heard from you in

Re: Can unprivileged users corrupt the store with bad tarballs?

2014-04-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> I was thinking about the security implications of giving out shell >> access to one of my systems running Guix. >> >> When I ask guix-daemon to build package 'foo', it will use as an input >> the source for package 'foo', usuall