Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:02:45AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIP] > > > > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify, > > downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded? > [SNIP] > > I believe that due to the "relaxation" of US export control on > cryptographic technology fortify will not be supporting any of the > Netscape 4.73 or greater products. > > Personally I downloaded the 4.73 *.tar.gz navigator file directly from > Netscape, with strong encryption built in, and installed it in > /usr/local. If you're ambitious and have a few hundred free megs, you can do as i did and replace the .nif files from the debian sources with those from the Netscape 128-bit tarballs (4 total, one each for navigator and communicator libc5 and 6. Just get the ones you'll use), and recompile it for yourself. Except for those .nif files, everything is the same between the two except for some directory layout changes. You might want to edit the debian/installer file and change all occurances of "for LIBC in 5 6;do" to "for LIBC in 6;do" so that you won't waste time building libc5 versions (or, do the same to kill libc6 if you use libc5). There's probably a similar change for nav/comm, but as i keep both installed (just in case i need to fill out a mailto form) i haven't bothered looking into that one. The main advantages of this are that it keeps things managed with the Debian package system, and you get some of the Debian helper scripts. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpDsgWMl3WXg.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)
Have you tried installing Fortify from source? That is what I did, since I did not know at the time that Fortify was available as a Debian package. -- Andrew On 28-Jun-2000 14:50:05 JudiElaine wrote: > > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify, > downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded? >
Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)
JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As an extremely conservative user i have just upgraded to
> potato (and, since in the moment i upgraded something was
> wrong because some important library was deleted, hosing my
> complete system, my conservatism has been reinforced -- i had
> done slink -> potato upgrades successfully before, too).
>
> Fortify doesn't recognize the executable I'm giving it.
> The script
>
> /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif
>
> refers to
>
> base_loc=/usr/lib/netscape/base-4
> nsremote=${base_loc}/netscape-remote
>
> so when i try
>
> fortify /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/netscape-remote
>
> the executable is not recognized.
>
> I shouldn't be suprised since
>
> lynx file:/usr/share/doc/fortify/README.html#versions
>
> only lists up to version 4.72.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify,
> downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded?
First, via dselect, you can choose any of about 3 or 4 versions of
netscape to be installed on your system, possibly even
simultaneously. You can remove 4.73 and install 4.72 if that's what
you want, or you might be able to have them both installed. Of course
you can also use apt-get to install, for example, 4.72:
apt-get install netscape-smotif-472
will probably do the trick.
I believe that due to the "relaxation" of US export control on
cryptographic technology fortify will not be supporting any of the
Netscape 4.73 or greater products.
Personally I downloaded the 4.73 *.tar.gz navigator file directly from
Netscape, with strong encryption built in, and installed it in
/usr/local.
Gary
netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)
As an extremely conservative user i have just upgraded to
potato (and, since in the moment i upgraded something was
wrong because some important library was deleted, hosing my
complete system, my conservatism has been reinforced -- i had
done slink -> potato upgrades successfully before, too).
Fortify doesn't recognize the executable I'm giving it.
The script
/usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif
refers to
base_loc=/usr/lib/netscape/base-4
nsremote=${base_loc}/netscape-remote
so when i try
fortify /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/netscape-remote
the executable is not recognized.
I shouldn't be suprised since
lynx file:/usr/share/doc/fortify/README.html#versions
only lists up to version 4.72.
Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify,
downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded?
Thanks for advice,
cheers,
judith
