The path of least-patching

It's been an amusing morning reading more takes on the Debian OpenSSL issue. While I was in the know before most others due to vendor-sec, and was able to quickly verify this didn't affect Mandriva, the fallout still continues. For those that think otherwise, this is a big issue, and …

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No longer a BS virgin

Well, I'm no longer a virgin to the Mandriva build system. I've been using some tools, like iurt, on the secteam buildbox for a while now, but I've not had the need to use repsys or mdvsys. So I started playing with them yesterday. For starters, someone needs to make …

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zsh history

Saw a few others on Planet Mandriva doing this so I figured what the heck, I'd do the same. I don' t use bash tho, I use zsh and on one box I have the extended history saved (timestamps), and the other I don't. Also keep in mind that I …

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