From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5hzp-0001Dv-27 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:46:40 +0200 Received: (qmail 2975 invoked by uid 1003); 12 Oct 2010 16:46:06 -0000 Received: from pool-96-240-180-126.ronkva.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.167?) (philip@opensdr.com@96.240.180.126) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 12 Oct 2010 16:46:06 -0000 Message-ID: <4CB490CD.50500@balister.org> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:46:05 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4CB48C51.9000403@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove older freetype versions X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:46:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/12/2010 12:41 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12-10-10 18:26, Tom Rini wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'd like to remove all versions of freetype before 2.4.3. The only dist >> which is pinning freetype currently does so via >> conf/distro/include/preferred-opie-versions.inc and that pins to a >> non-existent version (it's using OPIE_VERSION which seems wrong). All >> of the previous versions have various security issues, including >> remotely exploitable ones. Only the very oldest version we have as a >> D_P -1 so everyone was using 2.3.12 and will be going up to 2.4.3 >> (libraries are compat). > > Speaking of freetype, the bytecode patent expired, so we can turn that > on and get nicer text :) > > And removing older freetypes is a good idea I'd like to point people at openwmbedded/removal.txt. This would be a good place to schedule things for deletion. As in I added a new version and made it active, but do not want to delete the older version for a couple of months just in case something crops up. So leave a note in removal.txt to look are removing a recipe on a certain date. Philip