ugh. stuck with packaging webkit. I'm less than happy. Mostly because of the lacking documentation, the complete unstandard installation set and the complete lack of standard paths or recommendations.
Agh. And don't talk about expressing configuration files as python expressions. Just. Dont.
Well, appears that I was led to believe I'd get the PPC system system for naught. Fsck. I hate getting hopes for things. :-(
I often reflect that if "privileges" had been called "responsibilities" or "duties", I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why they were only gonna get them over my dead body.
-- Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
Well, finally the gconf defaults, mandatory settings are fixed up to provide a clean, smooth desktop , and the updater and merger scripts are settled and package. Yey.
now to just find the missing pieces.
I just found FireyFilter today. It's an act-alike to the windows personal firewalls that will show you both inside and outside view, controlling connections from both ends. Quite impressive really.
I'd want a few things to be fixed with it though :
* DNS lookups in a separate thread so that it doesnt hang the UI when trying to lookup the host of my DNS server... erm.. ;)
* instant apply of rules when you create them based on actions.
* ability to filter based on interface without setting in/out direction.
* Lookup of user & application name
Actually, I'd probably prefer to have a fairly simple netfilter firewall, and using an interactive ACL control like Systrace for the "allow this app to connect to..." sort of things. However, the systrace gui.. erm. needs love.
I've been peeking at both grsecurity, LIDS and SELinux. However, none of them seem to have an interactive rules generator with a GUI, Which makes me uninclined to use them.
Symbolical hell?
well..
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled is a link pointing at /mnt/old/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled
/mnt/old/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled is a link, pointing at ../../../../../var/lib/xkb
following the first link, to the second, leaves you in a path relative to the second links home, which is the read-only place "/mnt/old/var/lib/xkb" instead of the relative to the first link "/var/lib/xkb" that is writeable.
Lesson: Relative and absolute links don't mix well.
So you're stuck with a crasher, and a corrupted debug build so you need to check what to rebuild with FEATURES="nostrip" to make sure you get good symbols?
Heres a pretty crude oneliner :
ldd /usr/bin/gossip |cut --delimiter=" " -f 3 |while read F; do readlink -f ${F} ; file `readlink -f ${F}` |grep -vq "not stripped" && qp kg -v -I -f ${F};done
The packages output are the ones that are stripped, the rest are just the libraries, cut the first "readlink -f ${F}" out to remove that verbosity
ugh. I just feel sick from looking at that thread in the foundation list. Too many posts, too unclear waters.
As I read the copyright assignment, I know my code will be avaiable for free, in one version or the other. It might get cut out later, so what, that usually happens in all development. Old code gets cut out.
I'm perfectly clear with my small fixes being relicensed for selling and corporate consumption.
The issues about the Bounties are hairier. I like the bounties, they offer good hacking opportunities, and good incentive. Some might not be too well worked through, esp. that planner thing. But thats logistics, should have been thought over, but works well.
Too bad that the foundation won't work with it in the future, I like the idea.
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Got some more hardware auto-probe+load modules to work dynamically. "Fixed" menus in a fairly broken way, dealt with mime database on new installed systems.
Currently debugging why cdda:// doesn't associate automagically with cd's that cant be mounted.
Need to look at HAL more