User:Sam/TODO

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Security

  • Tooling to make security work easier, like pinging maintainers, changing whiteboards, and so on
  • Investigate if any additional gcc flags should be added to hardened profile
  • Add useful searches / tips to wiki pages?
  • Audit maintainer-needed packages, possibly dev-java too, and maybe www-apps for known vulns w/o bugs

Documentation

  • Add mention of circular dependencies to handbook?
  • Add mention of circular dependencies page to Portage? (bug #813504)

Ongoing

  • Work on any devmanual items in notes
  • Work on any wiki items in notes

Bugs

  • Report bash malloc bug on HPPA upstream - bug #832946
  • dev-lang/R bits on HPPA - bug #729384
    • Report R unaligned access noticed during build
    • ... ICE when building sometimes?
    • Report original build failure too. OK with lapack.

Misc

  • Revive 'notes' idea for metadata.xml
  • Python PGO, ideally trained on Portage unit tests
    • PGO itself is now done!
  • Add further examples to the musl notes
  • Summarise modern-day Hardened profile, update wiki pages, etc
  • Improve wiki pages on nattka / stabilisation requests
  • Add warnings on dhcp client to NetworkManager page
  • Make sure docs on SIGNED_OFF_BY etc are on wiki (done)

Improving upgrades

  • Wait a few months before using new EAPIs in tree (require stable Portage to have supported it for.. 3? months)
  • News item when a new EAPI is introduced to help folks who inevitably hit issues with their Portage being too stale (see also: bug #807043)
  • bug #821511
  • Take longer to drop support entirely for older Pythons in the eclasses (just python-exec is the main issue here)
    • In particular, makes it harder to upgrade Portage if it's too old (even with nodeps and such).
    • One ends up with lots of errors like:

python-exec: Invalid impl in /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf: python3.6 python: no python-exec wrapped executable found in /usr/lib/python-exec.

  • Improve the "rescue Portage" documentation (done: Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage)
    • Of particular note is this kind of error which appears when using an older Portage with a freshly synced tree:
root # emerge -uDNp --backtrack=9999 world

Arches

arm64

  • CPU_FLAGS_ARM64?
[02:29:43]  <sam_c> leio and others: Does much support CPU_FLAGS_ARM on arm64?
[02:29:57]  <sam_c> As in, actually in tree. Or is it all just arm stuff.
[02:30:06]  <sam_c> Just wondering if that's an avenue I should look into at some point.
[02:30:36]  <sam_c> Also, would there be any value in CPU_FLAGS_ARM64, or not really? I imagine all it'd do is simplify ebuilds wanting to support arm64 but who need to do something different to arm in order to do so.

Things to package

Attic

Packages which were on my list but are packaged now (not necessarily by me):

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