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Debian etch and “The following packages have been kept back…”

olaf — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:31:53 +0000

Update: Debian 5.0 Lenny was indeed released shortly after this post and will hopefully make it into all the mirror repositories today.

Just for the record: It seems the new Debian Lenny release is close at hand.
Apparently a few packages for the lenny release already made it into the productive repositories, which causes them to be held back by apt-get upgrade:

apt-get dist-upgrade -V Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libapache2-mod-php5 (... => 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2) libperl5.8 (... => 5.8.8-11.1+lenny1) php-pear (... => 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2) ...

apt-get dist-upgrade, which usually resolves this issue by upgrading the system to the most recent release does not work yet, since lenny was not released so far.

Critical security vulnerability in debian openssl package

olaf — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:17 +0000

Debians security advisory has reported a critical security issue with debian-based openssl packages.
As a result,generated keys might be weak and breakable, since the random number generator appears to have created predictable results.
The exact nature of this predictability was not made public by now, but it is strongly recommendet to regenerate keys created with kryptographic tools affected by the issue and to re-enroll all corresponding certificates.

Note that his issue affects all debian-based systems, including ubuntu 8.04.

Source: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html

Seems i’ll have a somewhat busy weekend.

Richtiges Logrotate unter Debian

olaf — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:21:18 +0000

Debian bietet einen einfachen und standardisierten Weg, um Logfiles , die ansonsten langsam die Platte füllen, sauber zu rotieren.
Aber was soll ich hier viel schreiben:

Mit dieser wunderbaren Anleitung zu Logrotate ist eigentlich alles gesagt. Fünf Minuten, und ich hatte Logrotate für alle meine Projekte. Toll!