Re: [ITA] ed-1.10-1

2014-08-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 08:07 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > x86/ed/ed-1.10-1-src.tar.xz > x86/ed/ed-1.10-1.tar.xz > x86/ed/setup.hint > x86_64/ed/ed-1.10-1-src.tar.xz > x86_64/ed/ed-1.10-1.tar.xz > x86_64/ed/setup.hint Why no debuginfo? Yaakov

[ITA] ed-1.10-1

2014-08-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
minor upstream changes, updated to cygport wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=0 \ http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86/ed/index.html wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=0 \ http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86_64/ed/index.html find x86 x86_64 -name index.html -o -name md5.sum | xargs rm x86/ed/ed-1.10-1-src.tar.xz x8

Re: [ITA] Procmail 3.22

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 13:09, D. Boland wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without > > > this tool. Why does this solution not work for Cygwin? > > > > Disregard this question. The expression "multi-root" totally puzzel

Re: HEADSUP MAINTAINERS: flat upload layout

2014-08-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 15.08.2014 19:21, schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz: On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 10:59 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 09:45, Thomas Wolff wrote: While revising the upload structure, please consider folding out the source package (e.g. into no-arch/ or src/) because it's not a convincing burden to

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 12:50, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> So if I'm a member of the administrators group those programs will use > >> administrative rights while delivering mail to my inbox even though they > >> don't need to? That doesn't sound desirable to me in any way. > > > > No, th

Re: [ITA] Procmail 3.22

2014-08-16 Thread D. Boland
Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without > > this tool. Why does this solution not work for Cygwin? > > Disregard this question. The expression "multi-root" totally puzzeled > me. Let's follow up with the libsuexec ITP.

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> So if I'm a member of the administrators group those programs will use >> administrative rights while delivering mail to my inbox even though they >> don't need to? That doesn't sound desirable to me in any way. > > No, they won't. The lib just converts the uid of the

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 11:28, Achim Gratz wrote: > > In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in > > effect > > acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18', > > while > > root has uid '0' in Unix. > > No, there are much larger differences between

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > suexec is the upstream name. > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html I fail to see the relation, APache suexec seems to do quite different things. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation &

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
D. Boland writes: >> At the very least you're missing a proper license. But for the moment I >> think you'd better patch that into sendmail and procmail gnulib-style. > > Proper license? Please explain. It appears you want to license under some version of the GPL. No license document is actually

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread D. Boland
Hi Achim, Achim Gratz wrote: > > > In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in > > effect > > acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18', > > while > > root has uid '0' in Unix. > > No, there are much larger differences between a c

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 16/08/2014 11:28, Achim Gratz wrote: http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/libsuexec/ This library doesn't do anything su-like or exec, so I think it is misnamed. All GTG's are welcome... suexec is the upstream name. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html Marco

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
> In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in > effect > acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18', > while > root has uid '0' in Unix. No, there are much larger differences between a capability based system and this. With capabili

Re: [ITA] Procmail 3.22

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 10:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > I forgot the prep stage. > > > > > > > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice > > > > program btw): > > > > > > >

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 10:05, D. Boland wrote: > Hi group, > > This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting > Sendmail and Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not > know, rely heavily on the setuid mechanism (impersonating as another > user). More formally, this is c

Re: Package upload failed

2014-08-16 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Marco. Friday, August 15, 2014, 23:44:22 you wrote: >> Thank you, i'll know that. >> By the way, package list at https://cygwin.com/packages/ also doesn't >> contain the new entry. > I noticed, eventually Yaakov is reshuffling the scripts Ok, good. I have posted an announcement

Re: [ITA] Procmail 3.22

2014-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > [...] > > > I forgot the prep stage. > > > > > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice > > > program btw): > > > > > > http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/ > > > > > > I had

[ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread D. Boland
Hi group, This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting Sendmail and Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not know, rely heavily on the setuid mechanism (impersonating as another user). More formally, this is called 'running as an unprivileged user' in Li

Re: [ITA] Procmail 3.22

2014-08-16 Thread D. Boland
Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [...] > > I forgot the prep stage. > > > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice > > program btw): > > > > http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/ > > > > I had to cheat a little (see 'src_compile' in .cygport file) beca

[ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-16 Thread D. Boland
Hi group, This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting Sendmail and Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not know, rely heavily on the setuid mechanism (impersonating as another user). More formally, this is called 'running as an unprivileged user' in Li

Re: perl-5.18.2-1

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > Thanks for the reminder. Where did we leave off wrt breaking out > perl_vendor? I've offered a practical way to do this for everyone to test on a 32bit install. If that works and is agreeable, I've also offered to ITA/ITP the packages in question plus any other Perl di

Re: perl-5.18.2-1

2014-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: > Back in April, Reini expressed a desire to keep perl_vendor, claiming > that it is the easiest solution for both user and maintainer [1]. Well, I have been keeping a large local installation of Perl modules and without perl_vendor dissolved I can't maintain that. Some of th