Wed Oct 28 04:20:01 CST 1998 Slackware 3.6.0 is released. slakware/a5/hdsetup.tgz: Patches to CD/DVD installation script. ---------------------------- Tue Oct 27 15:46:48 CST 1998 slakware/a1/aaa_base.tgz: Add directories for package scripts. slakware/a3/bin.tgz: Added apmd_3.0beta3-2 and asapm-2.2. slakware/a10/sysvinit.tgz: Patched /etc/rc.d/rc.M to start apmd on laptops. slakware/ap1/ghostscr.tgz: Added support for HP HP670, HP690, HP850, HP855, HP870, HP890, HP1100 and HP1600 color printers. slakware/xap1/fvwm95.tgz: Added a sample system.fvwm95rc-apm-battery in /var/X11R6/lib/fvwm95/. This version adds a power meter to the fvwm95 button bar. slakware/xap1/gs_x11.tgz: Added support for HP HP670, HP690, HP850, HP855, HP870, HP890, HP1100 and HP1600 color printers. slakware/n5/trn.tgz: Changed some permissions in /usr/lib/trn to allow scripts to work for root group users. contrib/cvs-1.10.tgz: Upgraded CVS to version 1.10. ---------------------------- Mon Oct 26 03:22:25 CST 1998 slakware/ap1/manpages.tgz: Rebuilt /usr/man/whatis. slakware/x1/x332man.tgz: Rebuilt /usr/X11R6/man/whatis. slakware/xap1/gimp.tgz: Upgraded to gtk+-1.0.6 and gimp-1.0.2. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 25 18:55:45 CST 1998 Package directories in A and N package series sorted to allow A directories to fit on 1.2MB or 1.44MB floppies, and N directories to fit on 1.44MB floppies. slakware/a1/aaa_base.tgz: Pine requires that /var/spool/mail be chmod 1777 for correct mailbox locking. While I have some reservations about allowing yet another place for users to hide huge files, I've made the change as there are good technical reasons behind it -- the previous more restrictive permissions could result in lost mail. slakware/a3/bin.tgz: Upgraded /usr/sbin/makewhatis to version 1.0h. slakware/a4/less.tgz: /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh edited to use new '-y' option for viewing bzip2 decompressed tar files. slakware/a5/hdsetup.tgz: In /usr/lib/setup/cpkgtool, "disk sets" renamed to "package series" in a few places. SeTconfig now sets mail spool permissions to 1777. slakware/ap1/manpages.tgz: Upgraded to man-pages-1.21. slakware/x1/x332prog.tgz: In /var/X11R6/lib/config, the files Imake.tmpl, Motif.tmpl, and Motif.rules are all the Lesstif versions now, as these are the ones most commonly used with Linux. Commercial versions of Motif should install their own Motif.tmpl and Motif.rules, but we retain the OSF versions that ship with XFree86 just in case (with a .osf extension). rootdsks/color.gz, pcmcia.gz, umsdos.gz: Changed "setup" to create the mail spool directory with correct permissions for file locking. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 25 00:54:08 CDT 1998 slakware/a4/glibc1.tgz: Runtime support libraries from glibc-2.0.7pre6. slakware/a4/glibc2.tgz: Internationalization support files for glibc. slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Patches to /var/log/setup/setup.cdrom. slakware/a5/ide.tgz: Upgraded generic IDE Linux kernel to 2.0.35. slakware/a5/ide.cfg: .config file to produce generic 2.0.35 IDE kernel. slakware/a8/procps.tgz: Upgraded to procps-1.2.9. No longer includes psupdate or xcpustate (both pretty useless, IMHO). slakware/a8/scsi.tgz: Upgraded generic SCSI Linux kernel to 2.0.35. slakware/a8/scsi.cfg: .config file to produce generic 2.0.35 SCSI kernel. slakware/a10/sysvinit.tgz: Patches to /etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom. slakware/n7/tcpip1.tgz: /etc/rpc updated from glibc-2.0.7pre6. ---------------------------- Sat Oct 24 00:02:51 CDT 1998 slakware/x1/fvwm2.tgz: system.fvwm2rc updated to call gv, not ghostview. slakware/xap1/fvwm95.tgz: system.fvwm95rc updated to call gv, not ghostview. slakware/xap1/ghstview.tgz: Retired in favor of gv-3.5.8. slakware/xap1/gv.tgz: New gv-3.5.8 package. ---------------------------- Fri Oct 23 20:15:08 CDT 1998 slakware/ap1/cdutils.tgz: Upgraded cdrecord to version 1.6.1. It should now support some parallel-port CD-R/RW drives (with an EPP port 2x might work, and 1x should be pretty reliable) slakware/n5/samba.tgz: Removed smbmount/smbumount man pages (these versions won't be used until 2.2.x is the default kernel). slakware/n6/tcpip2.tgz: Upgraded to fetchmail-4.6.3 and ipchains-1.3.5. slakware/x1/x3328514.tgz, x332agx.tgz, x332bin.tgz, x332i128.tgz, x332lib.tgz, x332ma32.tgz, x332ma64.tgz, x332ma8.tgz, x332mono.tgz, x332nest.tgz, x332p9k.tgz, x332prog.tgz, x332prt.tgz, x332s3.tgz, x332s3v.tgz, x332svga.tgz, x332vfb.tgz, x332vg16.tgz, x332w32.tgz: Upgraded to XFree86 3.3.2 + patch 3. slakware/xd1/x332lkit.tgz: Upgraded to XFree86 3.3.2 + patch 3. slakware/x1/x332bin.tgz: Recompiled 'makedepend' to look for include files in the gcc-2.7.2.3 include directory instead of the default gcc-2.7.2.1 include directory. contrib/extra-X-servers/: Added binary-only (even though I'm disappointed to see that) X servers for Intel i740 AGP and NeoMagic chipsets. ---------------------------- Thu Oct 22 17:11:12 CDT 1998 slakware/a1/aaa_base.tgz: Updated new root email for Slackware 3.6. ---------------------------- Wed Oct 21 20:34:11 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/devs.tgz: Added parallel-port devices in /dev: pda*, pdb*, pdc*, pdd*, pcd*, pf*, pt*, npt*, pg*. slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Updated version numbers, improved CD-ROM scanning. slakware/a10/sysvinit.tgz: Updated /etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom to better detect ATAPI CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. slakware/f1/manyfaqs.tgz: Updated Linux FAQs. slakware/f1/howto.tgz: Updated Linux HOWTOs. slakware/f1/mini.tgz: Updated Linux mini-HOWTOs. ---------------------------- Mon Oct 19 22:29:20 CDT 1998 slakware/a9/shadow.tgz: Upgraded to shadow-980724. slakware/ap1/ash.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/ap1/jove.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/ap1/sc.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/d1/p2c.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/d1/python.tgz: Upgraded to python-1.5.1. slakware/d1/rcs.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/n2/cnews.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/n8/uucp.tgz: Recompiled. slackware/x1/x332prog.tgz: Patched /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h: --- Xlib.h.orig Tue Oct 20 00:04:15 1998 +++ Xlib.h Tue Oct 20 00:33:43 1998 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ #include #else /* replace this with #include or typedef appropriate for your system */ -typedef unsigned long wchar_t; +#include #endif #endif slakware/xap1/ghstview.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/xap1/xspread.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/xap1/xxgdb.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/xv1/workman.tgz: Recompiled. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 18 21:50:39 CDT 1998 contrib/java: Upgraded to jdk_1.1.6. slakware/d1/gcc.tgz: Added C++ support. (requires the egcs.tgz package for C++ include files and libstdc++) slakware/n4/pine.tgz: Upgraded to pine 4.05. slakware/n4/imapd.tgz: New package with imapd/ipop3d from pine 4.05. slakware/n7/tcpip1.tgz: Upgraded to pidentd-2.8.3. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 18 16:09:40 CDT 1998 slakware/d1/perl.tgz: Upgraded to perl-5.005_02. ---------------------------- Fri Oct 16 23:18:57 CDT 1998 slakware/xap1/netscape.tgz: Upgraded to communicator-v407-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0_libc5. ---------------------------- Thu Oct 15 22:36:57 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/e2fsbn.tgz: Upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.12. slakware/a2/diska2: edited. ---------------------------- Wed Oct 14 20:58:36 CDT 1998 kernels/lodln16a.zip: Upgraded to loadlin-1.6a (needed for kernels newer than 2.1.22) slakware/a5/loadlin.tgz: Upgraded to loadlin-1.6a. slakware/e1/elisp.tgz, emac_nox.tgz, emacinfo.tgz, emacmisc.tgz, emacsbin.tgz: Upgraded to emacs-20.3. ---------------------------- Wed Oct 14 03:30:07 CDT 1998 slakware/n6/sendmail.tgz: Added webmaster alias in /etc/aliases.new. ---------------------------- Mon Oct 12 19:32:15 CDT 1998 slakware/k1/lx2035.tgz: Upgraded to linux-2.0.35. slakware/k1/linuxinc.tgz: Upgraded to header files from linux-2.0.35. slakware/d1/linuxinc.tgz: Upgraded to header files from linux-2.0.35. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 11 18:33:51 CDT 1998 rootdsks/pcmcia.gz: Upgraded to pcmcia-3.0.5 for linux-2.0.35. slakware/a1/joystick.tgz: Recompiled for linux-2.0.35. slakware/a5/ibcs2.tgz: Upgraded to ibcs-2.0-980822. slakware/a6/modutils.tgz: Upgraded to modutils-2.1.121. slakware/a6/pcmcia.tgz: Upgraded to pcmcia-3.0.5. slakware/a7/modules.tgz: New modules for linux-2.0.35. slakware/a9/modules.tgz: New modules for linux-2.0.35. slakware/ap1/ispell.tgz: Compressed info file. slakware/d1/egcs.tgz: Changed the filenames and links in /usr/bin to allow a more peaceful coexistence with gcc-2.7.2.3. 'gcc' and 'g++' are now links to a longer filename including the compiler's version number. slakware/d1/gcc.tgz: Added gcc-2.7.2.3. Although I never encountered any problems with egcs (well, other than the annoying string.h warnings :) many of the kernel developers feel that compiling the kernel with a gcc-2.7.x compiler is better tested and possibly more reliable. As a result, gcc-2.7.2.3 is now provided as an alternative to egcs-1.0.3. When this package is installed in addition to egcs-1.0.3, then by default C code will be compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3, while C++, objective C, and Fortran-77 will be compiled with egcs-1.0.3. If you need to change this, aim the 'gcc' and 'g++' links at the compilers you want to use, or set the compiler name in your Makefile to the compiler you want, such as: GCC=gcc-egcs-1.0.3 slakware/d1/svgalib.tgz: Upgraded to svgalib-1.3.0. slakware/n1/apache.tgz: Upgraded to apache-1.3.3. Changed server root directory from /var/lib/httpd to /var/lib/apache. slakware/n4/smailcfg.tgz: Upgraded to sendmail-8.9.1. slakware/n4/procmail.tgz: Upgraded to procmail-3.11pre7. slakware/n5/samba.tgz: Upgraded to samba-1.9.18p10. slakware/n6/sendmail.tgz: Upgraded to sendmail-8.9.1. slakware/n8/netmods.tgz: Added networking kernel modules package. ---------------------------- Sat Oct 10 22:59:23 CDT 1998 Some old ELF binaries don't work well when run against libc-5.4.46, so they're getting recompiled and/or upgraded: slakware/ap1/diff.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/ap1/ispell.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/ap1/quota.tgz: Upgraded to quota-1.70. slakware/d1/byacc.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/d1/m4.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/d1/pmake.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/n2/elm.tgz: Recompiled. slakware/xap1/gnuplot.tgz: Recompiled. ---------------------------- Sat Oct 10 18:28:12 CDT 1998 rootdsks/color.gz, pcmcia.gz, umsdos.gz: Rebuilt for Slackware 3.6. ***** Slackware 3.6 development tree branches off here ***** ---------------------------- Wed Oct 7 16:28:29 CDT 1998 slakware/ap1/texinfo.tgz: Inserted missing info.1.gz manpage. (hey, you could have just done "info info" ;^) slakware/tcl1/tclx.tgz: Fixed a couple of manpages/symlinks in /usr/man/man1. ---------------------------- Tue Oct 6 23:04:56 CDT 1998 slakware/ap1/jpeg6.tgz: Upgraded to use jpegsrc.v6b. slakware/ap1/diskap1: edited. slakware/xap1/libgr.tgz: Upgraded to use libraries in libgr-2.0.13, plus more recent versions of libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, and libz. slakware/xap1/diskxap1: edited. ---------------------------- Tue Oct 6 15:19:12 CDT 1998 slakware/d1/libc.tgz: Use uio.h in the kernel instead of the libc5 version: /usr/include/sys/uio.h -> /usr/include/linux/uio.h ---------------------------- Mon Oct 5 19:45:13 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/elflibs.tgz: Upgraded to libc-5.4.46. slakware/d1/libc.tgz: Upgraded to libc-5.4.46. (Since this is the final release of libc5, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank H.J. Lu for his years of work on the project, and to wish him well in all future endeavors! :) slakware/d1/diskd1: edited. ---------------------------- Sun Oct 4 23:49:37 CDT 1998 slakware/xap1/qt_1_41.tgz: Upgraded Qt to version 1.41. slakware/xap1/diskxap1: edited. slakware/xap1/maketag, maketag.ez: edited. slakware/xap1/tagfile, tagfile.org: edited. ---------------------------- Sat Oct 3 18:15:40 CDT 1998 slakware/a3/bin.tgz: Patched rpm2targz so that the converted .tar.gz files do not produce a "decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored" error. Added "rpm2tgz" mode to produce output files with a .tgz extension. ---------------------------- Fri Oct 2 16:51:32 CDT 1998 slakware/a8/sysvinit.tgz: Moved to directory a10. slakware/a8/diska8: edited. slakware/a10/sysvinit.tgz: Moved here from directory a8. /sbin/init has been recompiled as a static binary. This avoids problems with the root partition not getting unmounted correctly at reboot time with the latest development kernels. (The problem was caused by init mmap()ing /etc/ld.so.cache before the file is deleted and then rebuilt. This leaves init holding a file descriptor to a deleted file at shutdown, preventing it from being unmounted, and leaving the filesystem in an inconsistent state. slakware/a10/diska10: edited. ---------------------------- Thu Oct 1 10:25:50 CDT 1998 slakware/a1/bzip2.tgz: Upgraded to bzip2-0.9.0b. slakware/a1/diska1: edited. slakware/a4/gpm.tgz: Fixed a typo in the comments added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. slakware/a10/tar.tgz: The option for bzip2 compression with tar has been changed from -I to -y. (The long-form options, --bzip2 and --bunzip2, will remain the same) ---------------------------- Wed Sep 30 13:54:22 CDT 1998 slakware/n7/tcpip1.tgz: It appears a new denial-of-service attack against the NFS daemon rpc.mountd has surfaced. This package upgrades the NFS daemons to nfs-server-2.2beta37, which should fix the problem. slakware/n7/diskn7: edited. ---------------------------- Tue Sep 22 22:20:25 CDT 1998 contrib/glibc-devel-2.0.5c.tgz: Added missing /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h. ---------------------------- Fri Sep 18 14:14:39 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/elflibs.tgz: Fixed /lib/libgdbm.so.1.7.3 that was missing some symbols. ---------------------------- Thu Sep 3 22:02:34 CDT 1998 rootdsks/color.gz, umsdos.gz, pcmcia.gz: Patched setup program to mount mount source partitions as read-only when using NFS or a hard-drive partition as the installation source. slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Make setup mount all source partitions read-only. ---------------------------- Thu Sep 3 20:27:12 CDT 1998 slakware/a4/gpm.tgz: Upgraded to gpm-1.14. In addition, the gpm setup script no longer adds the '-R' option to the gpm command line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- too many people had trouble with this. Instead, it adds a commented out example of how to use '-R' with X. slakware/a4/diska4: edited. ---------------------------- Tue Sep 1 20:11:47 CDT 1998 slakware/a6/diska6: edited. slakware/a6/minicom.tgz: Upgraded from minicom-1.80.1 to minicom-1.81.1. Minicom changed from setuid root to setgid uucp. (the /dev/cua* devices are rw for group uucp) slakware/a8/sysvinit.tgz: /etc/rc.d/rc.M edited to start netatalk after initializing TCP/IP. slakware/a11/util.tgz: Upgraded to use /bin/hostname from net-tools-1.45. slakware/n7/tcpip.tgz: Patched NFS (rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd) against security holes reported on BugTraq. Upgraded net-tools-1.432 to net-tools-1.45. Upgraded netkit-routed-0.10 to netkit-routed-0.12. ---------------------------- Fri Aug 21 22:26:57 CDT 1998 slakware/y1/bsdgames.tgz: Renamed a couple of files: cd /usr/games/lib/fortunes mv limerick limerick-o mv limerick.dat limerick-o.dat 'limerick' was a new fortune database with the last update of this package. Many of them could be considered offensive, but in spite of the rot13 encryption present in the file, fortune doesn't realize it's a potentially offensive database without the '-o' suffix, so people were getting these at random, especially if some of the larger alternate databases (like fortunes2) were removed. Anyway, sorry. Hope nobody was too terribly shocked. :^) ---------------------------- Wed Aug 19 17:08:06 CDT 1998 slakware/n7/tcpip1.tgz: /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd: Security patches merged in. This daemon is not enabled by default, but if you've enabled it in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 then you will need this new version. /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap: Host access control added. ---------------------------- Mon Aug 17 13:47:18 CDT 1998 contrib/glibc-devel-2.0.5c.tgz: Added missing header files in /usr/include. ---------------------------- Sun Aug 16 15:02:58 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/find.tgz: Directory ownership on /var/spool/locate changed to user nobody, group bin. This fixes the updatedb cron job that runs as user nobody. (chown nobody.bin /var/spool/locate) ---------------------------- Sat Aug 15 17:41:34 CDT 1998 rootdsks/color.gz, umsdos.gz, pcmcia.gz: Fixed a bug in 'setup' that can result in lost files on a DOS/Windows partition if you use it as the source (with the "install from a hard drive partition" option), enter an incorrect directory path to the packages, and then attempt to reselect the source within the same run of setup. slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Although there doesn't seem to be any way for the above bug to occur from with the hard-drive version of setup (where a source DOS/Win partition will already be mounted within the directory structure), it's been patched in hdsetup.tgz anyway. ---------------------------- Thu Jul 30 14:29:41 CDT 1998 slakware/tcl1/tcl.tgz: Man pages fixed. (man.macros needed to be included for correct formatting) slakware/tcl1/tk.tgz: Man pages fixed. ---------------------------- Thu Jul 16 14:26:13 CDT 1998 rootdsks/color.gz, pcmcia.gz, umsdos.gz: Patched to fix a possible problem when installing from a hard drive partition or pre-mounted directory. slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Patched the same problem in the hard drive version of "setup" although it's not likely to affect an installed system anyway. slakware/f1/maketag, maketag.ez: Changed menu choice from incorrect "howto1" to "howto". ---------------------------- Tue Jul 14 11:42:57 CDT 1998 slakware/a2/elflibs.tgz: Removed bogus declarations of snprintf() and vsnprintf() from libdb.so.1.85.4. (these could interfere with the secure versions in libc.so depending on the link order used at compile time) slakware/d1/libc.tgz: Removed bogus declarations of snprintf() and vsnprintf() from libdb.so.1.85.4 and libdb.a. ---------------------------- Thu Jun 25 15:38:02 CDT 1998 slakware/a4/hdsetup.tgz: Fixed 'lilo' bootdisk creation in /sbin/makebootdisk. slakware/n3/mailx.tgz: Applied buffer-overflow patch from BugTraq. (source/n/mailx/mailx-overflow.diff.gz) ----------------------------