Re: Compiling FBB

[Thomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 09. November 2011 um 02:22:30 Uhr, schrieb David Ranch <linux-hams@trinnet.net> in <4EB9D5D6.50509@trinnet.net>:
> 
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> Thanks for willing to take this back on!  One thing to regarding the 
> node binary. The old "Linux Node" software evidently has several major 
> security vulnerabilities in it that were resolved in a fork called 
> Uronode.  See the Unode release nodes below for more details.
> 
> The HAM that wrote Uronode  has seemingly dropped of the map as all his 
> domains no longer work, etc.  A different HAM (KD1ZD) has reposted that 
> work as a new fork called Unode.   I would argue that the original Linux 
> node software should be patched to be secure or better yet, be DROPPED 
> from the ax25 suite in favor of this new Unode software which is "more" 
> secure, has some additional features, etc.

The software project Node is not part or ax25-apps/-tools.


>     https://github.com/kd1zd/Unode
> 
> Just my $0.02
> 
> --David
> KI6ZHD
> 
> 
> Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:04:00PM +0200, Thomas Osterried wrote:
> >> On 2011-10-20 21:02:44 -0700, David Ranch <linux-hams@trinnet.net>
> >> wrote in <4EA0EEE4.7050502@trinnet.net>:
> >>> Hello Bernard, Ralf, Thomas,
> >>>
> >>> I've been meaning to ask this question for a while now:  Do you know
> >>> why the official version of the ax25 apps/libs/tools hasn't been
> >>> updated in ages?
> >> Unfortunately, there's no debian-developer who regulary builds new
> >> packages from the CVS head of ax25-apps, -tools and libax25.
> > 
> > I used maintain ax25 for Debian to a long time ago.  Apparently I will be 
> > picking up support in Debian again since no one else seems to want to and the
> > "team maintainer" concept has fallen apart.  
> > 
> > The first order of business I have to attend to is the apparent need to rename
> > the node package and binary to ax25-node.
> > 
> > www.linux-ax25.org is apparently down right now?
> > 
> > (the Google repo mentioned is: http://code.google.com/p/linuxax25/ )
> > 
> > 73,
> > 
> > Pat
>