Paul's Blog Entries for September 2019
Sunday 1st September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated geoipupdate to 4.0.4 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Do not try to sync the database directory when running on Windows; syncing this way is not supported there and would lead to an error (GH#32)
Local Packages
Updated geoipupdate to 4.0.4 as per the Fedora version
Monday 2nd September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-XML (0.08) in Rawhide
Updated perl-XML-SemanticDiff (1.0007) in Rawhide not to build-require Test::TrailingSpace for EL-8 rebuilds
Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MCE to 1.847 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Obsolete RedHat MCE-1.840-Sereal-deps.patch file; this patch file is no longer needed and finally resolved with this release
PDL random numbers now unique between threads: see https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1214439
Replaced "PF_UNIX" with "AF_UNIX" in MCE::Util
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.847 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Obsolete RedHat MCE-Shared-1.841-Sereal-deps.patch file; this patch file is no longer needed and finally resolved with this release
Updated PDL examples in the documentation including Cookbook on GitHub:
- Resolved segmentation fault in global clean-up for shared PDL objects
Added missing pdl_random class method to MCE::Shared
- Bumped MCE dependency to 1.847
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Kwalitee-Extra (0.4.0) in Rawhide, adding workaround for issues with Module::CPANTS::Analyse 1.00 (CPAN RT#128602)
Built perl-File-Find-Object-Rule (0.0311) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Test-TrailingSpace (0.0302) for EPEL-8
Built perl-XML-SemanticDiff (1.0007) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-MCE to 1.847 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.847 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 4th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MCE to 1.848 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Improved IO::All::{ File, Pipe, STDIO } output via MCE->print($io, ...), printf, and say; this resolves a bug introduced in 1.845 when using App::Cmd::Tester to capture output
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.848 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Fixed broken examples in the MCE::Shared documentation
Bumped MCE dependency to 1.848
Built perl-Task-Weaken (1.06) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-UseAllModules (0.17) in Rawhide
Built perl-Test-UseAllModules (0.17) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-MCE to 1.848 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.848 as per the Fedora version
Thursday 5th September 2019
Fedora Project
Built perl-B-Keywords (1.20) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Class-MethodMaker (2.24) in Rawhide
Built perl-Class-MethodMaker (2.24) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Config-Tiny (2.24) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Devel-Cycle (1.12) in Rawhide
Built perl-Devel-Cycle (1.12) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Email-Date-Format (1.005) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-File-ShareDir-Install (0.13)
Built perl-File-ShareDir-Install (0.13) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Hook-LexWrap (0.26) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect (1.904) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Mail-Sender (0.903) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Mail-Sendmail (0.80) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Net-CIDR (0.20) for EPEL-8
Updated perl-Perl-Critic (1.134) in Rawhide not to run the extra tests if rebuilt for EPEL-8
Built perl-PPI (1.270) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-PPIx-Utilities (1.001000) in Rawhide
Built perl-String-Format (1.18) for EPEL-8
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Memory-Cycle (1.06) in Rawhide
Built perl-Test-Memory-Cycle (1.06) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Test-Object (0.08) for EPEL-8
Built perl-Test-SubCalls (1.10) for EPEL-8
Friday 6th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Pod-Spell (1.20) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-UNIVERSAL-require (0.18) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Pod-Spell (1.20) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-UNIVERSAL-require (0.18) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Pod-Spell (1.20)
Updated unrar (5.80) to remove pointless alternatives setup for non-existent Fedora unrar package
Saturday 7th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302168 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Fix typo in a Test2::API::Breakage warning
Delay loading of Term::Table until needed
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Contextual-Return (0.004014) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Contextual-Return (0.004014) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302168 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 8th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Class (0.50) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Test-Class (0.50) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Want (0.29) for EPEL-8
Monday 9th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MCE to 1.850 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Fixed edge case in MCE::Child when reaping inside a signal handler
Added list_pids class method to MCE::Child
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.850 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Fixed edge case in MCE::Hobo when reaping inside a signal handler
Guard clean-up code in MCE::Shared::Server during global destruction
- Configured extra data channel used for reaping Hobos and exporting
Optimized reaping in MCE::Hobo when void_context is set
Added list_pids class method to MCE::Hobo
Added pid class method to MCE::Shared
More safety around clean-up code in MCE::Shared::Server
Bumped MCE dependency to 1.850
Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000037 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Add decode_pod option for automatic =encoding handling
Branched and built perl-Test-Script (1.25) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Archive-Zip to 1.65:
Fix for members using bzip compression
- NetBSD doesn't mind empty zips
- Solaris test failure, add diag to failing test to collect data
Test for presence of Test::MockModule
- Fix skip line for Windows
Skip tests that assume /tmp on Windows
Updated perl-MCE to 1.850 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.850 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000037 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Test-Script (1.25) to reflect that Test2::V0 is a module dependency, not a test dependency
Updated perl-Text-Template to 1.57 (no changes)
Tuesday 10th September 2019
Fedora Project
Branched and built perl-Test-XML (0.08) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-XML-Filter-BufferText (1.01) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-XML-SAX-Writer (0.57) for EPEL-8
Wednesday 11th September 2019
Fedora Project
Branched and built perl-Log-Dispatch (2.68) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Log-Dispatch-FileRotate (1.36) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated curl to 7.66.0:
CVE-2019-5481: FTP-KRB double-free
CVE-2019-5482: TFTP small blocksize heap buffer overflow
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER: Parse the Retry-After header value
- HTTP3: Initial (experimental still not working) support
curl: --sasl-authzid added to support CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID from the tool
curl: Support parallel transfers with -Z
curl_multi_poll: A sister to curl_multi_wait() that waits more
sasl: Implement SASL authorisation identity via CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID
- CI: Remove duplicate configure flag for LGTM.com
- CMake: Remove needless newlines at end of gss variables
CMake: Use platform dependent name for dlopen() library
CURLINFO docs: Mention that in redirects times are added
CURLOPT_ALTSVC.3: Use a "" file name to not load from a file
CURLOPT_ALTSVC_CTRL.3: Remove CURLALTSVC_ALTUSED
CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3: Clarify
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION: Setting this to 3 forces HTTP/3 use directly
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3: Provide inline example
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST: Treat the value 1 as 2
Curl_addr2string: Take an addrlen argument too
Curl_fillreadbuffer: Avoid double-free trailer buf on error
- HTTP: Use chunked Transfer-Encoding for HTTP_POST if size unknown
- alt-svc: Add protocol version selection masking
- alt-svc: Fix removal of expired cache entry
alt-svc: Make it use h3-22 with ngtcp2 as well
- alt-svc: More liberal ALPN name parsing
alt-svc: Send Alt-Used: in redirected requests
- alt-svc: With quiche, use the quiche h3 alpn string
appveyor: Pass on -k to make
asyn-thread: Create a socketpair to wait on
- build-openssl: Fix build with Visual Studio 2019
cleanup: Move functions out of url.c and make them static
cleanup: Remove the 'numsocks' argument used in many places
configure: Avoid undefined check_for_ca_bundle
curl.h: Add CURL_HTTP_VERSION_3 to the version enum
curl.h: Fix outdated comment
curl: Cap the maximum allowed values for retry time arguments
curl: Handle a libcurl build without netrc support
curl: Make use of CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER when retrying
curl: Remove outdated comment
curl: Use .curlrc (with a dot) on Windows
curl: Use CURLINFO_PROTOCOL to check for HTTP(s)
curl_global_init_mem.3: Mention it was added in 7.12.0
curl_version: Bump string buffer size to 250
curl_version_info.3: Mentioned ALTSVC and HTTP3
curl_version_info: Offer quic (and h3) library info
curl_version_info: Provide nghttp2 details
- defines: Avoid underscore-prefixed defines
docs/ALTSVC: Remove what works and the experimental explanation
docs/EXPERIMENTAL: Explain what it means and what's experimental now
docs/MANUAL.md: Converted to markdown from plain text
docs/examples/curlx: Fix errors
docs: s/curl_debug/curl_dbg_debug in comments and docs
- easy: Resize receive buffer on easy handle reset
- examples: Avoid reserved names in hiperfifo examples
examples: Add http3.c, altsvc.c and http3-present.c
getenv: Support up to 4K environment variable contents on Windows
- http09: Disable HTTP/0.9 by default in both tool and library
http2: When marked for closure and wanted to close == OK
http2_recv: Trigger another read when the last data is returned
- http: Fix use of credentials from URL when using HTTP proxy
http_negotiate: Improve handling of gss_init_sec_context() failures
- md4: Use our own MD4 when no crypto libraries are available
multi: Call detach_connection before Curl_disconnect
netrc: Make the code try ".netrc" on Windows
- nss: Use TLSv1.3 as default if supported
- openssl: Build warning free with boringssl
openssl: Use SSL_CTX_set_<min|max>_proto_version() when available
- plan9: Add support for running on Plan 9
- progress: Reset download/uploaded counter between transfers
readwrite_data: Repair setting the TIMER_STARTTRANSFER stamp
scp: Fix directory name length used in memcpy
smb: Initialize *msg to NULL in smb_send_and_recv()
smtp: Check for and bail out on too short EHLO response
- source: Remove names from source comments
spnego_sspi: Add typecast to fix build warning
src/makefile: Fix uncompressed hugehelp.c generation
ssh-libssh: Do not specify O_APPEND when not in append mode
ssh: Move code into vssh for SSH backends
- sspi: Fix memory leaks
- tests: Replace outdated test case numbering documentation
- tftp: Return error when packet is too small for options
timediff: Make it 64 bit (if possible) even with 32 bit time_t
- travis: Reduce number of torture tests in 'coverage'
url: Make use of new HTTP version if alt-svc has one
- urlapi: Verify the IPv6 numerical address
- urldata: Avoid 'generic', use dedicated pointers
vauth: Use CURLE_AUTH_ERROR for auth function errors
Updated glib (1.2.10) to fix building in C99 mode
Updated gtk+ (1.2.10) to fix building in C99 mode
Updated libxslt (1.1.33) to drop Python 2 bindings from Fedora 31 onwards (Bug #1738016)
Updated perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl (1.15) to fix wrong date in changelog entry
Thursday 12th September 2019
Local Packages
Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.37:
- This release is based on version 2019c of the Olson database
- Contemporary changes for Fiji and Norfolk Island
Updated perl-File-Slurp to 9999.28:
Stop testing with Taint mode (Taint was a terrible practice that should never ever ever have been a thing)
Friday 13th September 2019
Local Packages
Updated curl (7.66.0) to fix memory leaked by parse_metalink() (GH#4326)
Saturday 14th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated geoipupdate to 4.0.6 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Local Packages
Updated geoipupdate to 4.0.6 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 15th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perltidy to 20190915 in F-31 and Rawhide:
See CHANGES.md for details
Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.40 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Update to Devel::PPPort-3.52
- Development perl is now 5.28.2
[csv2xlsx] sheetnames are restricted to 31 characters
Generate cpanfile
- Add munge type "db"
[csv2xls/csv2xlsx] do not generate xls/xlsx on empty CSV (GH#18)
New: support $csv->formula (sub { ... })
- Support stacked encodings
Local Packages
Updated perl-Carp-Clan to 6.08:
Fix warning in bad test (CPAN RT#130494)
- Speed up code that was accommodating ancient perl versions that are no longer supported
Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20190915 as per the Fedora perltidy package
Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.40 as per the Fedora perltidy package
Updated proftpd (1.3.6):
Refactor configuration to support /etc/proftpd/conf.d configuration and use config snippets (Bug #1589441)
Drop legacy GeoIP support from F-32, EL-8 onwards (ProFTPD Bug #4053, GH#605)
Monday 16th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MCE to 1.860 in F-31 and Rawhide:
- Signal-handling update release
Localized input and output record separators in MCE::Channel
IPC safety in MCE::Child during SIGINT and SIGTERM
Method $child->exit in MCE::Child now sends the SIGINT signal for extra reliability with MCE::Shared (previously SIGQUIT)
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.860 in F-31 and Rawhide:
- Signal-handling update release
SIGINT and SIGTERM safety for shared objects during IPC
IPC safety in MCE::Hobo during SIGINT and SIGTERM
Method $hobo->exit in MCE::Hobo now sends the SIGINT signal for extra reliability with MCE::Shared (previously SIGQUIT)
Bumped MCE dependency to 1.860
Branched and built perl-Crypt-Cracklib (1.7) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Text-CSV_XS (1.40) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-UNIVERSAL-isa (1.20171012) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-MCE to 1.860 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.860 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 18th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-AnyEvent to 7.17 in F-31 and Rawhide:
Work around antique openssl version in RHEL-7 by formatting DH parameters differently
Add t/13_weaken.t
Updated proftpd (1.3.6) in F-31 and Rawhide:
Refactor configuration to support /etc/proftpd/conf.d configuration and use config snippets (Bug #1589441)
Drop legacy GeoIP support from F-32, EL-8 onwards (ProFTPD Bug #4053, GH#605)
Local Packages
Updated perl-AnyEvent to 7.17 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Archive-Zip to 1.66 (see Changes for details)
Thursday 19th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Data-Compare to 1.26 in F-31 and Rawhide:
- Minor code quality improvements from Alberto Simõe
- Reinstate check for cwd being inaccessible
Updated perl-MCE to 1.862 in F-31 and Rawhide:
The edge cases regarding signal handling have finally been resolved for MCE::Child; see mce-examples/framebuffer on GitHub
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.862 in F-31 and Rawhide:
The edge cases regarding signal handling have finally been resolved for MCE::Hobo; see mce-examples/framebuffer on GitHub
Bumped MCE dependency to 1.862
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-EOL (2.00) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-NoTabs (2.02) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Test-EOL (2.00) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-NoTabs (2.02) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Data-Compare to 1.26 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE to 1.862 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.862 as per the Fedora version
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-EOL (2.00)
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-NoTabs (2.02)
Friday 20th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Apache-Session-Browseable to 1.3.3 in F-31 and Rawhide:
LDAP: Add ldapRaw parameter (GH#20)
Saturday 21st September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Convert-Bencode (1.03) in Rawhide
Sunday 22nd September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Spellunker (0.4.0) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Regexp (2017040101) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Valgrind (1.19) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Convert-Bencod (1.03) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Env-Sanctify (1.12) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Module-Install-Repository (0.06) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Regexp-Common (2017060201) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Spellunker (0.4.0) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-LeakTrace (0.16) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Regexp (2017040101) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Synopsis (0.16) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Valgrind (1.19) for EPEL-8
Monday 23rd September 2019
Fedora Project
Branched and built perl-Perl-Critic (1.134) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-PPIx-Utilities (1.001000) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20190920:
- Updated for v5.31.4
Tuesday 24th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Archive-Any-Lite (0.11) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-CheckDeps (0.010) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Vars (0.014) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Archive-Any-Lite (0.11) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Array-Diff (0.09) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Software-License-CCpack (1.11) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-CheckDeps (0.010) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Vars (0.014) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Archive-Any-Lite (0.11)
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-Vars (0.014)
Wednesday 25th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Module-Find (0.13) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Data-Binary (0.01) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Module-ExtractUse (0.343) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Module-Find (0.13) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Parse-RecDescent (1.967015) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Pod-Strip (1.02) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Directory to 0.051:
- Fix merge issues that prevented some features from being released
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-IO-Capture (0.05)
- With CentOS 8 having been released, my EL-8 builds are now done with that rather than the RHEL-8 beta
Thursday 26th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-PerlIO-gzip (0.20) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-DistManifest (1.014) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-HasVersion (0.014) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-PerlIO-gzip (0.20) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated unrar to 5.80 beta 2
Saturday 28th September 2019
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Test-Warnings to 0.027 in F-31 and Rawhide:
New :fail_on_warning feature, for more easily seeing where the surprising warning appeared during testing
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-IO-FDPass (1.2) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Module-Manifest (1.09) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-RequiresInternet (0.05) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-MCE (1.862) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Module-Manifest (1.09) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-DistManifest (1.014) for EPEL-8
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Warnings to 0.027 as per the Fedora version
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-RequiresInternet (0.05)
Sunday 29th September 2019
Fedora Project
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig (1.16) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-GDGraph (1.54) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-GDTextUtil (0.86) in Rawhide
Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Test-CheckChanges (0.14) in Rawhide
Branched and built perl-Test-Spelling (0.25) for EPEL-8
Monday 30th September 2019
Fedora Project
Branched and built perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig (1.16) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-GD (2.71) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-GDGraph (1.54) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-GDTextUtil (0.86) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-IO-FDPass (1.2) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-MCE-Shared (1.862) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse (0.99) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-CheckChanges (0.14) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-HasVersion (0.014) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Kwalitee (1.28) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-Perl-Critic (1.04) for EPEL-8
Branched and built perl-Test-RequiresInternet (0.05) for EPEL-8
Branched and built spamass-milter (0.4.0) for EPEL-8
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