Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > Someone could always port Debian to the Windows kernel, but they should not > call it Debian anymore, and it has no place in our archives (because it is > contrib [or non-free?] and too big to be inserted in the contrib > distrib

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-22 Thread Manuel Segura
I agree totaly with you.. Manuel Segura "Richard B. Kreckel" a écrit : > > Hi, > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, A Mennucc1 wrote: > [...] > > -why is the 'win' port important? > [...] > > (Sorry for dropping in late to this thread, I was too busy lately to > follow debian-devel tightly.) > > The

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Atterer
WRT chrooting certain applications - wouldn't it make sense to mandate one consistent way for the user to do this if the package supports it? That way, chrooting daemons is much more user-friendly, which in turn will (hopefully) lead to more people doing it. One idea: In a configuration file, the

building a new debian package

2001-09-22 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hello I am having trouble making a debian package that I building install a binary file the directory of my choice. I've been looking at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-modify.html#s-destdir to change the install directory, but I can't seem to get it to work. After running dpkg-buildpac

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > > > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package > > it? > >

ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-22 Thread Russell Coker
I intend to package the kernel patch for NSA Security Enhanced Linux. Below is all the details on licenses. My interpretation of the below license details (copied from the web site) is that the kernel patch is under the GPL and everything is fine. However is the issue about "warranty exclusion

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010922 16:26]: > One idea: In a configuration file, the user lists those daemons he > wants to run chrooted. init.d scripts that support it read this > information and act on it, copying the required files to a chroot > before starting the daemon there. > > (

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Richard Atterer (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:28:21PM +0200): > One idea: In a configuration file, the user lists those daemons he > wants to run chrooted. init.d scripts that support it read this > information and act on it, copying the required files to a chroot > before starting the daemon

Re: building a new debian package

2001-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
It seems to be an autoconf/automake based project, from what you included in your mail, how about using make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp from the install target of your debian/rules? Or if that doesn't work, you can still use make install bindir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/bin or something li

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Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > I think it can be useful for those who want to create their own flavour of > Debian or want to (partially) mirror Debian. dpkg-scanpackages/apt-ftparchive > doesn't work very well for packages which are located in the pool, and the

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly > > accessible, so it is only useful on a couple of internal Debian > > machines. For this

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin F Krafft) writes: > i don't think a global solution is a good choice here. if i install > bind9-chroot (hypothetically speaking), then bind9 should not possibly > ever run non-chrooted again. this should be done via diversions. Eee. Diversions are so, well, messy.

Re: dpkg logging

2001-09-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: > Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but >> you didn't explicitly list it.) > > No, they should use debconf. Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for *

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:39:20PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Help, please no. More supports for chroots may be nice. But not this > way! init.d-scripts calling scripts, that parse global config files > is ugly and one of the many points to make people switch from Suse > or Redhat to debian.

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bdale Garbee (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:06:37PM -0600): > Eee. Diversions are so, well, messy. I think the obvious right > way to handle this is to add debconf support to the bind9 package > asking whether to run in a chroot or not, and if the answer is yes, > just do it. As has bee

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Richard Atterer (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:03:55PM +0200): > What alternative possibilities for implementing this do you see? The > package will have to contain the necessary chrooting script somewhere, > and the admin will have to perform some action to trigger its > execution. After he h

New attempt to build debhelper 3 for potato

2001-09-22 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, tonight, I tried a second time to build debhelper 3 for potato. Because of the radical changes that have taken place especially with the SGML stuff, I have now successfully built 37 .deb files and am - again - beginning to wonder if it is really this major an effort to get a basic tool like de

Re: New attempt to build debhelper 3 for potato

2001-09-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:02:16 +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >tonight, I tried a second time to build debhelper 3 for potato. And obviously goofed with my From: address. Sorry 'bout that. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Bryan Andersen
Martin F Krafft wrote: > > also sprach Richard Atterer (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:03:55PM +0200): > > What alternative possibilities for implementing this do you see? The > > package will have to contain the necessary chrooting script somewhere, > > and the admin will have to perform some action to t

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:39:20PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010922 16:26]: > > One idea: In a configuration file, the user lists those daemons he > > wants to run chrooted. init.d scripts that support it read this > > information and act on it, copying

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bryan Andersen (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:42:23PM -0500): > For even better security, just make the standard install chrooted > if it is of wise security reasons to. I've long questioned why > this hasn't been done for many daemons already. I know some people > may feel that because it

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-22 Thread Brian May
> "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Domenico> how to find these evil packages? Just "grep __LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__ debian/rules" (for every source package) should find most of them, I think (not tested). Since the hack is probably exactly the same in every instance

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Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Andrew Suffield wrote: > However, the value of a package that would be used by about half a > dozen people in total is probably not all that high. We have packages that nobody uses. I wouldn't mind seeing the whole archive management suite being packaged properly, and I think it would

Re: bind9-chroot

2001-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do this, but I know bind doesn't break anything by being chrooted. > What about others? Last I checked bind when chrooted can't listen on interfaces that are brought up after it has been started. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

2001-09-22 Thread Yasuhiro Take
[ Ccing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for notice ] Hello, At 21 Sep 2001 15:39:27 +0300, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > > > Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please take a look at these packages and tell me about any problems > > which are not obvious - there is a lot of stuff still lacking and

Re: gpg and trustdb very slow

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:37:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 01-09-18 Joey Hess wrote: > > > It'd be nice if someone would look at optimizing it sometime; the > > > behavior I see with strace is absurd, and cou

Re: gpg and trustdb very slow

2001-09-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:37:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On 01-09-18 Joey Hess wrote: > > > > It'd be nice if someone would look at optimizing it sometime; t

doc-html-w3

2001-09-22 Thread Joseph Schlecht
I am seriously considering adopting [1]doc-html-w3. I use many of these recommendation on a daily basis where I work. It would be nice to have a current local copy of them. However, before I decide to go any further with the adoption process, I want to get some feedback for an idea that I have.