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- From: "David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:01:42 -0800
> there have been several reports about current cvs version hanging on
> checkouts of various stuff, among other nss and nspr which have been
> switched to using snapshots instead of direct cvs checkouts because of
> that.
I've seen this with the e17 packages and ffmpeg-cvs as well.
> Apparently this is not caused by the cvs server as I thought but by our
> version of the client. Downgrading to 1.12.12 or to the stable cvs tree
> (1.11.21) fixes this.
> Since 1.12.13 was a security update from 1.12.12, we can't just
> downgrade, so we can either backport the security fixes from 1.12.13 to
> 1.12.12 (unless those are causing the problem of course ;) or switch our
> spell to use the stable cvs tree. Switching to stable is what I would
> prefer, but that will remove some features from our cvs version.
> What do you think?
What were the security fixes? What are the set of conditions to
exploit the security hole? If they are really obscure we probably
could do a straight downgrade.
- David Brown
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[SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Arwed von Merkatz, 03/14/2006
- Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?, George Sherwood, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
David Brown, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Seth Woolley, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Arwed von Merkatz, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Seth Woolley, 03/14/2006
- Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?, Arwed von Merkatz, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Seth Woolley, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Arwed von Merkatz, 03/14/2006
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Re: [SM-Discuss] current cvs version broken?,
Seth Woolley, 03/14/2006
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