Re: kernel-headers-* for different archs (was Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

1998-02-09 Thread James Troup
[ This Cc: line is ridiculous, nice one someone ] Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to upload kernel-image along with its sources, should I > create a dedicated kernel-source-sparc package or requests the diffs > to be merged into the Debian kernel-source? No, and no. > What

Re: LD_PRELOAD used with setuid programs (was Re: Fakeroot security problem)

1998-02-09 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, James Troup wrote: > Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, both ld-linux.so.2 and ld-linux.so.1 should be fixed; nobody > > should be able to run a setuid program in a LD_PRELOAD environment. > > At least, I can't find any reason to all

Re: kernel-headers-* for different archs (was Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

1998-02-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Juan" == Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Juan> On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:05:25PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava > Juan> wrote: > >> Should I change the architecture of the kernel-headers package > >> from all to any? > > Juan> I think so. > > I a

Re: libc6 status

1998-02-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Juan Cespedes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 01:47:56AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > > > 1/ rootdisk.sh (from boot-floppies-2.0.0) searchs for > >/usr/lib/libc_pic/soinit.so, /usr/lib/libc_pic/sofini.so & > >/usr/lib/libc_pic/interp.so files that are missing from our libc6 > > packag

Re: boot-floppies progress

1998-02-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Stephen Zander wrote: > > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, to create the base archive, I need a libc6 release of dpkg, perl & > > silo. > > Anders, are you ready to upload dpkg ? > > Davide, are you ready to upload silo ? > > Anybody is working on perl ? Stephen ? > > Perl i

Re: libc6 status

1998-02-09 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 02:41:45PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Don't make your life too difficult. Just apply the following patch > which should be in the next glibc snapshot. > Index: libc.map > === > RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsf

Re: LD_PRELOAD used with setuid programs (was Re: Fakeroot security problem)

1998-02-09 Thread James Troup
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ lots of stuff that was intended for debian-private and not debian-sparc ] Excuse me, but which genius decided to use a *public* mailing list as a Maintainer: address? Please don't do that it a) violates policy[1], and b) is plain silly, IMNSHO, if some

Re: LD_PRELOAD used with setuid programs (was Re: Fakeroot security problem)

1998-02-09 Thread James Troup
Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, both ld-linux.so.2 and ld-linux.so.1 should be fixed; nobody > should be able to run a setuid program in a LD_PRELOAD environment. > At least, I can't find any reason to allow it, and many people could > use it to try to find exploits. But there _a

Re: boot-floppies progress

1998-02-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can help with these :) Ben, you're a life-saver. I haven't been able to string 10 minuters together to read the docs, and hated the thought of asking on debian-devel for fear of "RTFM". Many thanks! -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical ill

Re: boot-floppies progress

1998-02-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Perl is waiting on two things: Stephen> 1. Me to finish the install on the Sparc5 I have to the Stephen> point where I can do development (which may be done) Can't help with this, but.. Stephen> 2. Me to find

Re: boot-floppies progress

1998-02-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, to create the base archive, I need a libc6 release of dpkg, perl & > silo. > Anders, are you ready to upload dpkg ? > Davide, are you ready to upload silo ? > Anybody is working on perl ? Stephen ? Perl is waiting on two things: 1. Me to finis

Re: libc6 status

1998-02-09 Thread Andreas Jaeger
> Juan Cespedes writes: Juan> On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 01:47:56AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: >> >> 2/ the .rem symbol is defined in libslang (0.99.38) but not in the the >> libslang >> generated for miniroot by processing the libslang-pic package. Juan> I'm going to define all the `.{u,}

Re: libc6 status

1998-02-09 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 01:47:56AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > 1/ rootdisk.sh (from boot-floppies-2.0.0) searchs for >/usr/lib/libc_pic/soinit.so, /usr/lib/libc_pic/sofini.so & >/usr/lib/libc_pic/interp.so files that are missing from our libc6 package. >I don't know much about crea

Re: boot-floppies progress

1998-02-09 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 01:20:16AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Hello all, > here is my progress in this development of boot disks for Sparc. Fine :) > BTW, I've created 2 new packages only useful in the sparc world: > .fdisk-sparc is the missing program from util-linux >

Re: kernel-headers-* for different archs (was Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

1998-02-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Juan" == Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juan> On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:05:25PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava Juan> wrote: >> Should I change the architecture of the kernel-headers package >> from all to any? Juan> I think so. I am working on this (and a few other things su