gnuchess-6.3.0-1.1 RPM for x86_64

From OpenSuSE Tumbleweed for x86_64

A worthy chess opponent that runs in text mode. Find an X11 interface
in the xboard package.

Provides

• gnuchess
• chess_backend
• gchess
• gnuchess(x86-64)

Requires

• /bin/sh
• libc.so.6()(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.15)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.34)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.38)(64bit)
• libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
• libm.so.6()(64bit)
• libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
• libreadline.so.8()(64bit)
• rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
• rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
• rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
• rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Changelog

* Sun Sep 07 2025 Matej Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
  - Update to 6.3.0:
    - Look for gnuchess.ini in XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config/.
    - Dynamically configure gnuchess.ini from gnuchess.ini.in.
    - Disable engine book on 'book off'.
    - Improve style of some help messages.
    - More graceful program termination if book does not exist.
    - Bug fix in (epd)load command.
    - Fix potential buffer overflows in the pipes read/write.
  - Remove xgnuchess, it is non-functional (we don’t package xboard
    any more). For the same reason, we don’t package gnuchessx
    either.
* Fri Feb 18 2022 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
  - Only require info and call its macros on suse_version < 1550:
    in Tumbleweed, info handles its file via file triggers since Sep
    2019.
* Sat Jul 31 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
  - update to 6.2.9:
    - Fixed potential buffer overflow in pgnload and pgnreplay (CVE-2021-30184)
  - drop txtJ07eHdR0m6.patch (upstream)
* Fri May 14 2021 Ferdinand Thiessen <rpm@fthiessen.de>
  - Update to version 6.2.8
    * Bug fixes in the input/output processing
* Thu Apr 08 2021 Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
  - Add txtJ07eHdR0m6.patch to fix CVE-2021-30184 (reported upstream on
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html )
    (boo#1184531)
* Sun May 31 2020 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
  - gnuchess 6.2.7:
    * minor bug fixes in the build system
* Sun Apr 19 2020 Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
  - Update to the version 6.2.6:
    - Fix buffer overflow on load EPD file (bsc#1148736 CVE-2019-15767).
    - Fix move validation when cleaning up moves, e.g. accepting
      '0-0' for O-O'.
    - More consistent use of period in translatable texts.
    - Minor fixes on compilation warnings
    - New and updated translations.
* Sat Apr 28 2018 antoine.belvire@opensuse.org
  - Only suggest xboard, don't recommend it.
  - Use %license instead of %doc for license file (boo#1082318).
  - Use %install_info_delete macro instead of rewriting it.
* Tue Jul 25 2017 astieger@suse.com
  - gnuchess 6.2.5:
    * Command history based on readline.
    * New commands: coords/nocoords to enable/disable coordinates
      when printing the board.
    * Command pgnsave will prompt the user to overwrite or not an existing
      file instead of appending the current game to the file.
    * New languages.
    * Bug fixes.
* Tue Nov 15 2016 astieger@suse.com
  - gnuchess 6.2.4:
    * Print error for invalid move.
    * Truncate user input if longer than 128 characters
      fixing CVE-2015-8972: user input buffer overflow (boo#1010143)

Files

/usr/bin/gnuchess
/usr/bin/gnuchessu
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/README
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/TODO
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnuchess/gnuchess.ini
/usr/share/games/plugins
/usr/share/games/plugins/logos
/usr/share/games/plugins/logos/gnuchess.png
/usr/share/games/plugins/xboard
/usr/share/games/plugins/xboard/gnuchess.eng
/usr/share/gnuchess
/usr/share/gnuchess/book.bin
/usr/share/gnuchess/smallbook.bin
/usr/share/info/gnuchess.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/gnuchess
/usr/share/licenses/gnuchess/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnuchess.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuchess.1.gz

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