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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:53:03 GMT
lua: rebuilt for slackware-current after boost upgrade.
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 01:48:19 GMT
libtorrent-rasterbar: updated to 1.1.7 (slackware-current only). qbittorrent: rebuilt 4.0.4 (slackware-current only). This package depends on libtorrent-rasterbar, libxkbcommon, qt5 and qt5-webkit. vlc: updated to 3.0.2 for Slackware -current. Updated internal libraries: libdvdcss, libebml, libmatroska, microdns, x262 and x264. Depends on libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit packages. Usual caveat: versions that can not only DEcode but also ENcode AAC […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:54:32 GMT
current/deps/cryptopp: updated. current/deps/cryfs: rebuilt. current/kde/applications-extra/calligra: rebuilt. current/kde/applications-extra/digikam: rebuilt. current/kde/applications-extra/kile: updated.
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:56:17 GMT
Here is KDE 5_18.04 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.45.0, Plasma 5.12.4 and Applications 18.04.0. All this on top of Qt 5.9.5. The ktown updates are targeting Slackware -current only. Updates of the KDE 5 package sets for Slackware 14.2 have come to an end. Upgrading from the previous 5_18.03 is straight-forward. Read […]

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:43:44 GMT
14.2/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/gcc-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-brig-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-g++-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-gfortran-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-gnat-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-go-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt for to the new C++ ABI. current/gcc-objc-7.3.0_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt […]
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:51:28 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

slackware64 current changes for Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:39:25 GMT April 21, 2018
a/lvm2-2.02.177-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-9.txz: Rebuilt. installpkg: fixed occasional lack of package size reported by the installer. d/binutils-2.30-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed /usr/$TARGET/lib directory. Thanks to GazL. n/gpgme-1.11.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/ppp-2.4.7-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed rp-pppoe build. Thanks to voegelas for the bug report. xfce/xfce4-settings-4.12.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.

SBo

SlackBuilds.org changes for Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:44:58 GMT
academic/copasi: Updated for version 4.23.184. audio/flacon: Updated for version 4.1.0. audio/mpd: Updated for version 0.20.18. desktop/Simplenote: Added (Note Taking Program). desktop/mh5000: Updated for version 1.3.1. desktop/nitrokey-app: Updated for version 1.3. desktop/wmslideshow: Added (dockapp for displaying images). development/d-tools: Updated for version 2.079.1 development/dmd: Updated for version 2.079.1 development/gtest: Update script. development/jdk: Updated for version 8u172. development/jupyter-ipywidgets: […]

Archive for October, 2010

Barely a week has passed, and we have yet another local root hole in glibc that needed patching. The Slackware ChangeLog said it like this: a/glibc-solibs-2.12.1-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Patched “The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DSOs during setuid loads.” This security issue allows a local attacker to gain root by specifying an unsafe […]

Posted: 29 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: exploit, glibc, multilib, root
Comments: 7

New multilib glibc packages fix local root hole

New glibc packages for Slackware arrived on the mirrors last night. They close a serious local root hole. From the ChangeLog: Patched “dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path”. This security issue allows a local attacker to gain root if they can create a hard link to a setuid root binary. Thanks to […]

Posted: 21 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: exploit, glibc, multilib
Comments: 15

Slackware gcc multilib packages rebuilt

Pat Volkerding rebuilt the gcc 4.5.1 packages for Slackware-current, adding support for LTO (Link Time Optimization). Apparently that feature was requested a lot. Consequently I have rebuilt my multilib versions of the gcc-4.5.1 packages for Slackware64-current; get them at http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/ (mirror site: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/). Eric

Posted: 19 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: gcc, multilib.lto
Comments: 10

Compositing hard lock in KDE 4.5

People have written about their computer locking up with KDE 4.5.x in Slackware. These locks seem to be caused by the open source video drivers that are part of X.Org. These drivers incorrectly advertise some OpenGL capabilities when the KDE compositing manager queries them. As a result, the KDE window manager tries to enable non-working […]

Posted: 16 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: compositing, kde45, opengl, xorg
Comments: 6

New multilib packages for 64-bit Slackware-current

As you may have noticed already, there are interesting updates in the Slackware ChangeLog.txt ! A new kernel, and new glibc plus gcc packages means there has to be an updated set of multilib packages too or else you bunch of hybrid lovers would be left out in the cold. Well actually there is an […]

Posted: 13 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: gcc, glibc, multilib, x86_64
Comments: 7

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