[oe] [announce] new tagged version of ipkg

Matt Reimer mattjreimer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 18:58:34 UTC 2007


On 1/11/07, Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org> wrote:
> > Tarball?
>
> No tarball at this time. If one is desired it can be facilitated.
>
> > ChangeLog?
>
> The ipkg/C/ChangeLog has been updated:
>
> 2007-01-11 erik ( erik at hovland.org)
>         * Version update to 0.99.164
>         * Fixed usage of temporary files to be more secure
>         * Closed several potential memory/file descriptor leaks
>         * Cleaned up warnings in several parts of the code
>         * Added checking to libbb/unzip.c so it did not use tainted data
>         * Changed code in several places where it is possible to dereference an invalid pointer

I'd like to see this added to the ChangeLog:

* Converted from storing metadata in flat files to storing it in an sqlite db

Of course, a bit of work might be needed to actually make that a true
statement. ;-)

Matt




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