Monday 27th June 2011
Fedora Project
Became co-maintainer of perl-GD, perl-GDTextUtil, perl-GDGraph and perl-GDGraph3d for EPEL-4 so that I could get them built to resolve broken dependencies in dspam-web that have been ongoing for some time now. These packages have a linear dependency relationship in that perl-GDTextUtil depends on perl-GD, perl-GDGraph depends on perl-GDTextUtil etc., so it would normally have taken months to get that chain of packages built and through the EPEL QA process one at a time. However, now that bodhi supports easy buildroot overrides, I was able to get all of these packages built in one night, though only after I got commit access to their devel branches, a quirk of the process that I queried in upstream ticket 620.
Local Packages
Updated GeoIP to 1.4.8:
Fix GEOIP_DOMAIN_EDITION_V6
Fix GEOIP_ORG_EDITION_V6 and GEOIP_ISP_EDITION_V6
Add new data types GEOIP_NETSPEED_EDITION_REV1_V6 and GEOIP_NETSPEED_EDITION_REV1
Fix possible directory traversal weakness in geoipupdate-pureperl.pl with malicious update server