Changes in KaarPux version 4.2.1¶

Several Security Updates¶

• UPD: nss: v 3.16 (Commit ca3aee52)
• UPD: thunderbird: v 24.4.0 (Commit 67630c92, db0354dc)
• UPD: firefox: v 28.0 (Commit 0df1b5ff)
• UPD: openssh: v 6.6p1 (Commit ac8460ac, 3d16ff8c)
• UPD: libpng: v 1.6.10 (Commit a9d10baf)
• UPD: logilab-common: v 0.61.0 (CVE-2014-1838) (Commit 934c7b36)
• UPD: freetype: v 2.5.3 (Commit 975f6d39)

Better Dependency Tracking with systemtap¶

Commit 5dcbc2d0

• systemtap: v 2.5-0.349.g2dd920e34796

Commit 038fbc79

• do NOT use find or perl/flist.pl to track installed files (speeding up regular builds)
• use fsnotify to track file access

Commit c68e1300

• do not reference defunct flist.pl

Install packages in parallel¶

Commit 3dd7bc58

• remove kx_lock_install
• add glib-compile-schemas to update-desktop-database.sh
• add –disable-schemas-compile to gnome packages
• re-order building of fonts (due to mkfontdir, mkfontscale, and fc-cache)
• use make -j NNN install
• do not sleep in the beginning of parallel builds

Commit 3c4bc98a

• do NOT install with -j NNN; too many packages are breaking

Tool for analyzing build performance¶

• ADD: gnuplot (Commit 165b8fce)
• IMPROVE: KxBuild: add kx_sar tool to analyse build performance (Commit d8b485ed)
• DOC: build_performance: add paragraph on combining statistics (Commit 6b70f23e)

Bugs fixed¶

• FIX: lcms2 libsigc++: do not build twice (Commit dc57696a)
• FIX: cdrkit d-feet lm_sensors xerces-c: do NOT install in /usr/local (Commit 39e155ad)

Packages updated¶

• UPD: nspr: v 4.10.4 (Commit 5c597d70)
• UPD: ghostery: v 5.1.2 (Commit f738624d)
• UPD: noscript: v 2.6.8.19 (Commit 36a1c869)
• UPD: linux: v 3.13.7 (Commit 061e3160)

Minor Changes¶

• IMPROVE: certdata: only mark upstream outdated if SHA256-sum of CONTENTS have changed (Commit e657dcef)
• IMPROVE: systemd: better configure options (Commit 241fc2a1)
• MINOR: KxBuild: pass download image when launching kvm (Commit 08746ebc)
• MINOR: KxBuild: typo in error message in kvm.sh (Commit cb337701)
• MINOR: kx_ver_wiz: more robust sed command (Commit f8e0db90)
• MINOR: KxBuild: do not update lsb_release number (Commit 6e07a0c4)
• IMRPOVE: xorg: do not install static libraries (Commit 83f3a327)
• IMRPOVE: qpdf spice-gtk xerces-c: do not install static libraries (Commit a9c913f2)
• FIX: spice-gtk: do not use –disable-static; it does not work?! (Commit ecc11133)
• MINOR: freetype: correct installed version check (Commit 0d844999)

Documentation Changes¶

• DOC: www: update Copyright year in license (Commit a8365bf1)
• DOC: KaarPux: updated CVE info (Commit 3b90535c)