stefanor

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by stefanor 5mo ago
The Linux project's view is that almost all kernel bugs are security vulnerabilities. They don't treat something like this as anything special. I can understand that PoV, but it doesn't fit with distributions' approach t
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by stefanor 5mo ago
As far as we can tell, nobody disclosed it to the distributions, only to the kernel security team (who did not reach out to distributions). So the distributions are all scrambling now. Good lesson in how not to do disclosure.
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by stefanor 2y ago
Debian has epochs, but it's a bad idea to use them for this purpose. Two reasons: 1. Once you bump the epoch, you have to use it forever. 2. The deb filename often doesn't contain the epoch (we use a colon which isn't valid o
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by stefanor 3y ago
If you have a system-level installed pypy, the pypy equivalent is: python3 -m venv -p pypy3 venv source venv/bin/activate python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip python3 -m pip install wheel pip install -r requirements.tx
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by stefanor 3y ago
> What is it with them which makes them feel entitled to have special "dist-packages" vs "site-packages" as is the default? This drives me nuts, when I have a bunch of native packages I want to bundle in our in-house
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by stefanor 6y ago
> firmware updates for BIOS among other things There's a growing distro-agnostic solution here, LVFS fwupd https://fwupd.org/
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by stefanor 13y ago
Looks like the problem was somewhere between noris.net and hetzner - so it was unaccessable from some bits of the net.