[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Mittwoch 11 März 2009 schrieb Allan McRae:
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> > Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> >> Does anybody know what this message in dmesg is about? Was syslog-ng
> >> compiled for i686?
> >>
> >> warning: `syslog-ng' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
> >
> > Very out-of-date libcap, not only syslog-ng, also proftpd, vsftpd,
> > pulseaudio, ntpd, virtualbox, etc, etc...
> >
> > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libcap/ (for linux 2.4)
> >
> > Need to have libcap2 package for kernel 2.6 in Arch Linux
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/
>
> I was confused about this as libcap is in [extra] so how can it make
> problems with a package in [core]?
>
> So going from this comment in the bug report about libcap
> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11917#comment41046) I get...
>
> > readelf -s /usr/sbin/syslog-ng | grep cap
>
>     33: 00000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND capset at GLIBC_2.1 (4)
>    177: 00000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND capget at GLIBC_2.1 (4)
>    473: 08228bd8     4 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P
>
> Looks like libcap is a soft dep there.  How?
>
> Then rebuild in clean chroot:
> > readelf -s syslog-ng | grep cap
>
>    467: 08221b18     4 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P
>
> And then the dmesg warning goes away...  So, the lesson to learn is to
> _always build in a clean chroot_!
>
> Allan
hrm i normally build in chroots, seems somehow this one slipped into it.
Shall i add it as makedepend?

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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