Putting information in external JSON files is IMHO not an improvement
over the idiomatic style of Nix expressions. The use of JSON doesn't
add anything over Nix expressions (in fact it removes expressive
power). And scattering package info over lots of little files makes
packages less readable over having the info in one file.
From LWN:
From the NVD entries:
CVE-2016-5501: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality,
integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2016-5538.
CVE-2016-5538: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality,
integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2016-5501.
CVE-2016-5605: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.1.4 in Oracle Virtualization allows remote
attackers to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related
to VRDE.
CVE-2016-5608: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect availability via vectors
related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5613.
CVE-2016-5610: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality,
integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core.
CVE-2016-5611: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality via
vectors related to Core.
CVE-2016-5613: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox
component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle
Virtualization allows local users to affect availability via vectors
related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5608.
Upstream changelog without bug numbers:
* GUI: fixed issue with opening '.vbox' files and it's aliases
* GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes
* GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click
* GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files
* USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or
product description under certain circumstances
* XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions, this
time for Windows 7 guests
* Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters
on Linux hosts
* Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images
* Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend
* Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10
and older when using a SCSI controller
* Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting
is enabled
* Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
* NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain
circumstances
* Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression)
* Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression)
* Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
* Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression,
thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
* E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register,
this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression)
* BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation
* API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances
* Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or
other VBox COM clients
* Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages
(5.1.0 regression)
* Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux
complaint
* Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
* Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver
* Linux Additions: don't load the kernel modules provided by the Linux
distribution but load the kernel modules from the
official Guest Additions package instead
* Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux
guests
* User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the
getextradata enumerate example
The full upstream changelog with bug numbers can be found at:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-5.1#v6
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
In 2942815968, the dependencies for Qt 5
were passed using buildEnv with all the development binaries, headers
and libs. Unfortunately, the build output references that environment
which also increases the size of the runtime closure.
The upstream makefile assumes a common Qt 5 library path, but that's not
the case within Nix, because we have separate paths for the Qt 5
modules.
We now patch the makefile to recognize PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_{LIB,INC} so
that we can pass in the relevant paths from Qt5X11Extras.
In summary, the closure size goes down to 525559600 bytes (501 MB)
instead of 863035544 bytes (823 MB) with vbox-qt5-env.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Putting the kernel modules into the same output path as the main
VirtualBox derivation causes all of VirtualBox to be rebuilt on every
single kernel update.
The build process of VirtualBox already outputs the kernel module source
along with the generated files for the configuration of the main
VirtualBox package. We put this into a different output called "modsrc"
which we re-use from linuxPackages.virtualbox, which is now only
containing the resulting kernel modules without the main user space
implementation.
This not only has the advantage of decluttering the Nix expression for
the user space portions but also gets rid of the need to nuke references
and the need to patch out "depmod -a".
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We now no longer need to update VirtualBox manually, which has a few
advantages. Along with making it just easier to update this also makes
the update procedure way less error-prone, for example if people forget
to bump the extension pack revision or to update the guest additions.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Just a small updater which should fetch the latest sha256sums from the
upstream site and check whether the current version is the latest one.
The output is in a JSON file in the same directory, which then will be
used by the Nix expressions to fetch the upstream files.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The following parameters are now available:
* hardeningDisable
To disable specific hardening flags
* hardeningEnable
To enable specific hardening flags
Only the cc-wrapper supports this right now, but these may be reused by
other wrappers, builders or setup hooks.
cc-wrapper supports the following flags:
* fortify
* stackprotector
* pie (disabled by default)
* pic
* strictoverflow
* format
* relro
* bindnow
