[Pkg-nx-group] freenx debian packaging

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann s.L-H at gmx.de
Sat Jan 12 14:14:47 UTC 2008


Hi

On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
[...]
> FreeNX does not have libraries. The NX libraries are coming from
> Nomachine and they give security-support on them. The used versions are
> from secure and stable releases so far I know.

It's based on code that has long been abandoned upstream and history
shows that even the X related security fixes that did exist (and got quite 
some press coverage) weren't applied. I'd really prefer being proven 
wrong, but reality looked different.

Now let's take a look at SuSE's current NX packages from opensuse-factory
(and they pretty much provide the most dedicated support to their NX 
packages, yes I know that NX 3.1 would be current upstream):

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/src/NX-2.1.0-51.src.rpm

$ rpm2cpio NX-2.1.0-51.src.rpm | cpio -idmv
NX-1.5.diff
NX-bufferoverflow.diff
NX-data-range.patch
NX-noansi.diff
NX.diff
NX.spec
bugzilla-154928-integer-overflows.patch
bugzilla-190902-handle-malformed-pcf-files.patch
docs.tar.bz2
gcc4-friends.patch
nx-X11-2.1.0-3.tar.gz
nxagent
nxagent-2.1.0-20.tar.gz
nxagent-stringcompare.diff
nxcomp-2.1.0-8.tar.gz
nxcomp-gcc43.patch
nxcompext-2.1.0-5.tar.gz
nxdesktop-2.1.0-10.tar.gz
nxproxy-2.1.0-3.tar.gz
nxscripts-2.1.0-5.tar.gz
nxssh-2.1.0-2.tar.gz
nxviewer-2.1.0-12.tar.gz
p_XFree86-4.3-ppc64.diff
ppc-no-signed-char.diff
xorg-CAN-2005-2495.patch
xorg7.diff
70839 blocks

...most of that stuff is carried along since the NX 1.5 days or even 
longer.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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