September 7th, 2020 - Is anybody still out there?

Agenda

• Why do we have a support forum? I cannot really see anyone receiving any support from anybody else?
• Core Update 149
• Rootfile helper
• Location quirks

Attendees

• Arne
• Jonatan
• Michael
• Stefan
• Peter

Log

Why do we have a support forum?

• People do not seem care about factual discussions anymore
• Some users lack even most basic IT/networking/security skills without being aware of it
• ... and the rest of the users does not even seem to read posts longer than a few sentences
• We will try to keep this forum more strictly moderated
• Perhaps an issue template might help

Core Update 149

• An issue has been fixed (telinit -u), currently no other issues known at the moment
• vi misbehaved sometimes (GCC hardening), fixed as well
• Phasing out i586
• Scheduled to be released next week

Core Update 150

• Kernel update only (including fix CVE-2020-14386, see #12483)
• Contains upcoming fix for #12480 and some smaller libloc-related changes

Core Update 151

• StrongSwan, conntrack-tools, iptables et al.

Rootfile helper

• Being annoyed by them, Jonatan has worked an toolkit for handling rootfile changes
• Shared libraries are somewhat difficult to deal with
• Makes development easier, but still leaves some rootfile changes to be reviewed manually
• Still needs some re-designing and engineering work

Location quirks

1. Tracked as bug #12480
   - Sounds like a bug somewhere near xt_geoip
   - Michael takes care of this
2. Importing less inaccurate RIR data is almost done (bug #12458)
   - This solves complaints from 3rd parties

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