From noreply at frugalware.org  Wed Sep 14 01:04:13 2011
From: noreply at frugalware.org (Miklos Vajna)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:04:13 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Important machine of the Frugalware
	infrastructure was compromised
Message-ID: <20110913230413.0EF13142005E@genesis.frugalware.org>

Dear users,
I'm sorry to report that one of our important machine from the
          Frugalware infrastrucere was compromised on August 25. I took
          a while till we found out the details how that was possible,
          read [1] here if you're interested.
In short: we found that the attacker installed a backdoor
          similar to kernel.org one, and we already reinstalled the
          machine, plus took steps to prevent such a similar attack in
          the future.
On the bright side, we verified that none of the Frugalware
          Git repos nor the binary packages were modified during the
          attack, so you don't have to fear the Pacman-G2 installed any
          problematic update to your machines.
Thanks for your understanding.
References

1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.frugalware.devel/9899

From noreply at frugalware.org  Mon Sep 19 01:17:21 2011
From: noreply at frugalware.org (James Buren)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:17:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Kernel upgrades and you
Message-ID: <20110918231721.DE398142005E@genesis.frugalware.org>

If you are upgrading current or to current any time soon, you
	  will need to take special measures. We have switched our stock
	  kernel to using an initrd by default now, but this only effects
	  i686 and x86_64 for now. All other archs are unchanged. If you
	  are running a fairly simple grub setup, you only need to run
	  grubconfig after the complete upgrade. If not, then you need to
	  add this line to your Frugalware menu entry in menu.lst. Here it
	  is:

	  initrd (frugalware grub partition)/boot/initrd.img.xz

	  If you encounter problems with the new kernel, please file a
	  bug report.