Bug 169019

Summary:	www-servers/yaws-1.68 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Covington <covracer>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://yaws.hyber.org/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	yaws-1.68.ebuild

Description Christopher Covington 2007-03-02 16:44:50 UTC

The latest release of YAWS, compared with the versions in Portage at the moment, 1.58 and 1.56, fixes the DoS (bug #159602) and weird eacces problems (bug #165275). Since 1.60, however, the ability to drop root privileges after opening a privileged port has been dropped. One solution is to run a reverse proxy like pound or nginx on port 80 and proxy traffic to the non-privileged port YAWS is running on. The other option is to use fd_server[1]. My attempts so far at rewriting the makefile of the latter using autotools and sticking it into an ebuild have been so far unsuccessful[2].

1. http://yaws.hyber.org/wiki/showPage.yaws?node=fdserver
2. http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-February/025280.html

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-02 16:47:23 UTC

And it still has no maintainer. No reason to have yet another 'we need a fixed version' bug open. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159602 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159602 ***

Comment 2 Christopher Covington 2007-03-03 15:21:56 UTC

Created attachment 111936 [details]
yaws-1.68.ebuild