GNOME 3.30.1 Platform

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor versions

Changes will be available externally - I'll take care of producing them.

This ticket will be in HOLD until Tuesday of next week (9/4) to let things settle in. I might take care of other tickets while waiting.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Adding a lot of 3.30 packages just released.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Grabbing GNOME and friends first. Then we'll see what I grab afterwards.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Add another one

[Douglas R. Reno]

Remove vala - we already did that one!

[Douglas R. Reno]

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.28.1: Fixed at r20468

[Bruce Dubbs]

Add libwnck-3.30.0

[Douglas R. Reno]

Bump version to 3.30.1 as tarballs have begun releasing for that.

I'm going to continue to update with whatever's available over the next day, and then I'll apply new versions afterwards. I need to see if a bug I found in GDM is fixed or not.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Note the bug: ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/178

[Douglas R. Reno]

Replying to xry111:

Note the bug: ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/178

I'm hoping that this was fixed in 3.30.1. I don't have a problem doing modifications to gnome-control-center, it's not that tough to do - but I'd prefer to not have to do so.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to renodr:

Bump version to 3.30.1 as tarballs have begun releasing for that.

I'm going to continue to update with whatever's available over the next day, and then I'll apply new versions afterwards. I need to see if a bug I found in GDM is fixed or not.

I tried GDM-3.30.1 released today. It seems fixed the VT switching bug.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Now gnome-desktop uses ​bubblewrap to wrap the thumbnailers for security. Without bubblewrap GNOME applications just refuse to generate thumbnails.

Bubblewrap is a very lightweight sandbox/container. I installed it and it worked. (In fact I'm doing things exactly like it in one of my projects :). A simple ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; make install would install it.

But, it need namespace support in kernel and some LFS/BLFS people think namespaces are evil (I remember a message in blfs-dev critized namespaces as "plague").

We can add bubblewrap, or hack gnome-desktop code to remove this feature (seems #undef HAVE_BWRAP is enough), or do them both (list bubblewrap as an optional dependency).

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to renodr:

I'm hoping that this was fixed in 3.30.1. I don't have a problem doing modifications to gnome-control-center, it's not that tough to do - but I'd prefer to not have to do so.

Fixed in 3.30.1. GNOME guys are releasing patch versions quite quickly.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Thanks for the heads up!

One more thing - there's 12 patches that have to be applied to gnome-shell to fix regressions. I'll create a consolidated one, but they haven't released gnome-shell-3.30.1 yet because of them. Check out the 3.30.1 release announcement for more details on that.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Add Tracker.

[Douglas R. Reno]

pygobject3-3.30.1: Fixed at r20543

There are extreme issues with the tests in this package - none of them pass. I am not aware if it's my system or if there is another problem. I sent a mail to the blfs-dev list regarding it.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Add Zenity

Almost here...

[Xi Ruoyao]

{mutter,gnome-shell,gnome-shell-extensions}-3.30.1 has been released.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Thanks Xi, I'll hopefully have this done by the end of the week.

gnome-shell includes the patches, so I don't have to worry about generating a consolidated patch.

DATA LOSS ISSUE: in gnome-settings-daemon up to 3.30.1.1 (all the way back to 3.16.1), there is a problem that can lead to complete file system corruption coming out of standby or hibernation. I categorize this update as a high priority one, and will have to make an errata.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Whoa! Now I know why my laptop has "turned itself off" mysteriously several times... :(

By the way, it seems g-s-d test suite costs minutes to run.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Replying to xry111:

Now gnome-desktop uses ​bubblewrap to wrap the thumbnailers for security. Without bubblewrap GNOME applications just refuse to generate thumbnails.

Bubblewrap is a very lightweight sandbox/container. I installed it and it worked. (In fact I'm doing things exactly like it in one of my projects :). A simple ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; make install would install it.

But, it need namespace support in kernel and some LFS/BLFS people think namespaces are evil (I remember a message in blfs-dev critized namespaces as "plague").

We can add bubblewrap, or hack gnome-desktop code to remove this feature (seems #undef HAVE_BWRAP is enough), or do them both (list bubblewrap as an optional dependency).

Hey Xi,

Do you have any details on dependencies other than the kernel support? Considering the ghostscript vulnerability, I feel more comfortable adding bubblewrap than just undefing it.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to renodr:

Hey Xi,

Do you have any details on dependencies other than the kernel support? Considering the ghostscript vulnerability, I feel more comfortable adding bubblewrap than just undefing it.

It does not require any other BLFS packages. If xsltproc (libxslt) is installed the man page of bubblewrap will be built so libxslt should be "optional (to build man pages)".

And, if the kernel lacks user namespace support or we don't want to use user namespace, we can use configure option --with-priv-mode=setuid to use setuid bit instead of user namespace. But mount namespace is strictly required. Other (IPC, PID, UTS, network) namespaces are optional at runtime.

[Douglas R. Reno]

There seems to be a problem with gnome-online-accounts and gnome-settings-daemon as shipped in 8.3 when used with the new version of glib2. It complains about destroyed pointers.

Upgrading to 3.30.x packages fixes this, but I might want to create an errata.

[Douglas R. Reno]

For Mutter, it looks like --enable-compiler-warnings=minimum is required regardless of architecture

[Douglas R. Reno]

Add grilo and adwaita, since they're all here.

[Douglas R. Reno]

yelp-xsl-3.30.1: Fixed at r20728

vte-0.54.2: Fixed at r20728

[Douglas R. Reno]

gnome-desktop-3.30.2: Fixed at r20904

Thanks goes to Xi for reporting the package addition needed by gnome-desktop. Additional modifications to that page, such as possible kernel configuration and/or configure options may be needed at a later time.

[Douglas R. Reno]

gnome-online-accounts-3.30.0: Fixed at r20906

grilo-0.3.7: Fixed at r20906

adwaita-icon-theme-3.30.1: Fixed at r20906

[Douglas R. Reno]

libwnck-3.30.0: Fixed at r20908

evolution-data-server-3.30.3: Fixed at r20908

Tracker-2.1.6: Fixed at r20908

DConf-0.30.1: Fixed at r20908

DConf-Editor-3.30.2: Fixed at r20908

gnome-backgrounds-3.30.0: Fixed at r20908

[Douglas R. Reno]

Remove duplicate package

[Douglas R. Reno]

gvfs-1.38.1: Fixed at r20935

[Douglas R. Reno]

gnome-settings-daemon-3.30.2: Fixed at r20953

gnome-control-center-3.30.2: Fixed at r20953

Nautilus-3.30.5: Fixed at r20953

Zenity-3.30.0: Fixed at r20953

[Douglas R. Reno]

mutter-3.30.2: Fixed at r20963

gnome-shell-3.30.2: Fixed at r20963

gnome-shell-extensions-3.30.1: Fixed at r20963

gnome-session-3.30.1: Fixed at r20963

gdm-3.30.2: Fixed at r20963

gnome-user-docs-3.30.2: Fixed at r20963

yelp-3.30.0: Fixed at r20963

[Douglas R. Reno]

​http://linuxfromscratch.org/~renodr/GNOME_3_30_2_CHANGES.html