Re: [sysvinit-devel] Testing a new beta

[Matias Fonzo]

There is no rule to compress the sysvinit tarball using the
chosen compressor.  The current tarball (.tar.xz) is a plain tar (GNU).

$ file sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz
sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:58:55 -0300
Matias Fonzo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Cool.  Another version of sysvinit, We can test it on Dragora -devel.
> 
> I suggest to change the -fstack-protector option to
> -fstack-protector-strong by default, which provides a good balance
> between security, performance.  Also, do not forget to distribute an
> alternative format, for us.. the people who tries to avoid .xz.  :-)
> 
> (If you don't like lzip, it could be in .tar.bz2, alongside
> the .tar.xz).
> 
> Thanks,
> Matías
> 
> On Mon, 28 May 2018 12:34:30 -0300
> Jesse Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all. I am testing a new beta snapshot of SysV init. This one
> > carries the version label 2.90-beta and can be downloaded from the
> > usual location [1].
> > 
> > This beta mostly focuses on minor code clean-up. A few little issues
> > were cleaned up and issues with newer compilers (like GCC 7) were
> > fixed.
> > 
> > The shutdown process now recognizes when the computer has been put
> > to sleep after shutdown was run. Assuming the system clock is
> > accurate, we now shutdown when originally asked to instead of at
> > the original time + time spent in suspend mode.
> > 
> > The /run/initctl interface was documented and now has its own man
> > page.
> > 
> > Upon receiving SIGUSR2, init will close all of its files, including
> > its control pipe. The pipe can be reopened with SIGUSR1.
> > 
> > There have been minor updates to #include directives to handle
> > changes in the way some defines are packaged, and a few updates to
> > the Makefile to make building/distributing sysvinit easier.
> > 
> > Fixed a nasty bug where building sysvinit on Fedora would appear to
> > work, but without properly linking to crypt() causing either a crash
> > or undefined behaviour.
> > 
> > Those are the highlights and the rest can be found in the tarball's
> > doc/Changelog file.
> > 
> > These changes have been tested on amd64 and ARM. And I'm hoping this
> > beta will attract more testers to confirm everything is working
> > properly.
> > 
> > 1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/
> >   
> 
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