Re: new packages...

1997-10-16 Thread James Troup
Davide Barbieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My pgp key was generated on a i386; now I need to port on sparc > > > >Hmmm... aren't they binary-compatible? > > no, they aren't if the machine have different endianess Que? I use the same PGP key on i386, m68k and sparc machines withou

Does sparc need/want libc5 (i.e. non-g) versions of libraries?

1997-11-04 Thread James Troup
Hi, I'm finally getting round to updating my packages which include 4 shared libraries and I need to know if I should exclude the sparc from the building of the libc5 versions of the libraries? The alpha people certainly don't want the libc5 versions, so excluding sparc will be no problem, if it'

Re: Current State of Debian Sparc Port

1998-01-03 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > > * bash 2.01 and its libreadline cant be compiled because it > > comes out linked against both libc5 and libc6; same with > > ncurses3.4. > > Umm, I think that's just untrue. Yep. > Do you mean the *dependencies* show both libc5 and libc6?

Re: Current State of Debian Sparc Port

1998-01-03 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > actually, > studentloan+% ls -al /lib/ld-* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 447196 Dec 1 14:27 /lib/ld-2.0.90.so* > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root26957 Feb 21 1997 /lib/ld-linux.so.1* > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root26957 Feb 21 1997

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: 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,

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)

1998-02-10 Thread James Troup
Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't want that address to receive mails addressed to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Neither do I, but the maintainer of @packages.debian.org disagrees. (BTW, he claimed "the sparc folks" did). > I'll change the Maintainer: field in the next upload (in one o

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33 for sparc

1998-02-17 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, how to handle the kernel-patches package ? I have to upload a > binary package for it (kernel-patches-*_sparc.deb) but should I also > upload its source counterpart ? Yes, because packages in main should always have source, if they don't they'll b

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33 for sparc

1998-02-17 Thread James Troup
Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW, how to handle the kernel-patches package ? > > I have to upload a binary package for it (kernel-patches-*_sparc.deb) but > > should I also upload its source counterpart ? > > Well, I think so... every binary package should have an > associa

Re: libc6-dev & libgdbmg1-dev conflicts

1998-03-22 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can upload a new release and forward this mail to the libgdbm > maintainer. No need; I read this list. > PS: I compiled amd (which is based on NDBM) with libc6's DB with no > troubles (just replaced the gdbm include by ). Did you actually test it, a

Re: Sparc packages

1998-04-02 Thread James Troup
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fakeroot -- NEEDS TO BE UPDATED to fix security hole. I tried > compiling it (compiled fine) but when I would type, for instance, > "fakeroot debian/rules clean", it would cause the make process to do > nothing but eat 90% of CPU. I looked at this back

kernel-patch*sparc* and libc-sparc

1998-04-27 Thread James Troup
Hi, [ Just looking at some ftp.debian.org problems in relation to Quinn Diff, and these are the sparc-related areas ] a) Why is kernel-patch*sparc* Architecture: sparc and not Architecture: all? You don't need a sparc to install it and cross compile a sparc kernel (I assume). m68k's ker

Re: kernel-patch*sparc* and libc-sparc

1998-04-27 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > > b) Is there a binary package produced from the libc-sparc source > >package (in oldlibs)? I can't see one looking at > >hamm/hamm/binary-sparc/Packages. If not, I'll ask

Re: libgdbmg1-dev (1.7.3-24): conflict with glibc-pre2.1

1998-05-09 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gdbm > Version: 1.7.3-24 > > There is a conflict between gdbm & glibc 2.1 about libndbm.{a,so} > links: both packages provide them. Hmm I don't think you meant to send this to debian-sparc. Anyways, I'm aware of this problem (have been for mo

Re: libgdbmg1-dev (1.7.3-24): conflict with glibc-pre2.1

1998-05-25 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gdbm > Version: 1.7.3-24 > > There is a conflict between gdbm & glibc 2.1 about libndbm.{a,so} > links: both packages provide them. This is now fixed in 1.7.3-25 which was installed into frozen and unstable a couple of hours ago. -- James ~Y

Some consensus please on the libc5-compat issue

1998-10-27 Thread James Troup
Hi, This is the 3rd time, I've asked this question, it be nice if I could have a conclusive answer this time. Christian Meder has reported bugs against two of my shared library packages (pwdb and gdbm) claiming that sparc _does_ want libc5-compat packages built; but the last time I asked on this

Re: slink on SLC: `You must upgrade dpkg'

1998-11-16 Thread James Troup
Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unpacking bison (from bison_1.25-12.deb) ... > > You must upgrade dpkg before installing this package. Cool, you've somehow got a dpkg (<< 1.4.0.8); that's impressive. -- James

Re: slink on SLC: `You must upgrade dpkg'

1998-11-16 Thread James Troup
Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup writes: > > Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Unpacking bison (from bison_1.25-12.deb) ... > > > > > > You must upgrade dpkg before installing this package.

Re: slink on SLC: `You must upgrade dpkg'

1998-11-16 Thread James Troup
Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup writes: > > Either you have an old version of dpkg hanging around somewhere or > > sparc's dpkg is seriously FU (unlikely); I suggest you hunt around > > looking for rogue copies, and see what dpkg i

Re: Gathering opinions: Freeze ?

1998-11-20 Thread James Troup
"Jules Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roman Hodek and James Troup have devised a distributed system for > keeping architectures up to date with i386 (or, more generally, just > up-to-date with source uploads). It's actually 99% Roman's work, I just pimp

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Collins writes: > > Some one said recently they would post a list of the packages that > > wouldn't auto compile for sparc from slink. Is this still going to be > > posted, I'd like to help getting these things compiled. > > I would like to see wanna-build and it

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread James Troup
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, yes 1.4.0.31 is the latest slink. I just noticed our problem is > the convergence of slink binary-sparc packages and potato binary-all > packages (dpkg-dev is 1.4.1 in potato/main/binary-sparc/base). This > should really be resolved before we can real

sparc frozen

1999-01-17 Thread James Troup
Hi, Sorry for the delay, but it's finally been done. The following packages have been removed from slink because the version in sid was from potato. Please recompile them with the slink source and hax0r the .changes file to say `frozen' only and upload them. apache, apache-common, f2c, libgdb

Re: missing symlinks from slink to sid...

1999-01-24 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting to build new bootdisks but it fails because some packages are > missing. I don't have an extensive list handy but I remember at least a > problem with libgdbm (and maybe others). > In fact, it is still in sid but not referenced in slink

Re: missing packages in slink (continued)

1999-01-25 Thread James Troup
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > checker Obsoleted by gccchecker, however both are i386 specific. > courtney Removed from the archive due to copyright problems. > fdflush (is this needed at all ? sparc floppy drives are auto-eject, > therefore this package s

Re: Missing Sparc packages in the last packages

1999-02-16 Thread James Troup
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla does not appear. This is a serious problem because it is the > only graphical Web browser in "main". Que? What do you think arena, chimera2, gzilla and w3+xemacs are? -- James

Re: z8530-utils2_3.0-4_sparc.changes INSTALLED

1999-05-07 Thread James Troup
Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 06:56:27PM -, Debian Installer wrote: > > > > Installing: > > z8530-utils2_3.0-4_sparc.deb > > to dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/hamradio/z8530-utils2_3.0-4.deb > > replacing z8530-utils2_3.0-3.deb > > > > Sorry guys,

Re: z8530-utils2_3.0-4_sparc.changes INSTALLED

1999-05-07 Thread James Troup
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could whoever setup the buildd on xia01 please fix it to pass -B to ^^ > dpkg-buildpackage as God and the upstream maintainers intended? Or `-m', even. -- James

kernel patches and source

1999-05-30 Thread James Troup
Hi, While hacking on quinn diff I noticed the following warnings from quinn diff: kernel-patch-2.0.35-sparc has an architeture field of "sparc" which doesn't include i386. kernel-patch-2.2.0-sparc has an architeture field of "sparc" which doesn't include i386. kernel-patch-2.2.1-sparc has an ar

Re: kernel patches and source

1999-05-30 Thread James Troup
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) I have removed kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 and the 2.0.35 and 2.2.0 >patches on the basis that they're probably obsolete. If I'm wrong, >now would be a good time to say so. I take that back, I see the latter two are new

Re: kernel patches and source

1999-05-30 Thread James Troup
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only UltraSparc kernel image in Debian is compiled from > kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 (a CVS kernel with some additional patches > added). This is serverly wrong. The kernel-patch mechanism works and exists for a reason; we do not need or want to bloa

Re: slink Packages file empty for sparc...

1999-07-06 Thread James Troup
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > I was just about to try to create some new sparc CD images and the run has > > failed again, this time because the Packages file for the main section on > > sparc is empty. I've checked and this is the case on master, no

[Alexandre Vitrac ] Bug#94238: gnupg: Sparc version of gnupg in potato 2.2r3 is linked with libc 2.2

2001-04-17 Thread James Troup
*bop*; somebody fix please. --- Begin Message --- Package: gnupg Version: 1.0.4-2 Severity: important The version of gnupg shipped with the newly released potato 2.2r3 on sparc is linked with libc6 2.2. As such, it's not installable on a fresh install and it's not upgraded when you want to update

Re: Sparc Samba security update problem?

2001-04-20 Thread James Troup
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also note, that the only thing on auric that is from unstable is > tetex. Err, and postgresql and apt... -- James

Re: lablgtk package not built ?

2001-11-02 Thread James Troup
Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BVut aren't the build daemons supposed to fill a bug if this is the > case, at least that is what the m68k autobuilders dom and also the > sparc one, i think, at least i received lmails from them in the > past. build daemons don't file bugs, humans do. overwork

Re: lablgtk package not built ?

2001-11-03 Thread James Troup
Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe, but i think m68k at least as the buildd daemon fill the bugs > automatically No, it doesn't. As I already told you. -- James

Re: No sparc buildlog at buildd.debian.org

2002-06-28 Thread James Troup
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My packages build fine or sparc, but the sparc buildlog no more appears at > buildd.debian.org, as it was previously. Whoops. Lossage during ~buildd reconstruction after an accident by parties who shall remain nameless. Fixed now. -- James -- T

Re: Please build libwww 5.4.0 on ext2 for sparc

2002-07-20 Thread James Troup
Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > libwww 5.4.0 has a really weird problem in that it only builds on an > ext2 filesystem, not on ReiserFS. I've already spent days > researching this and haven't found the problem; it seems to be > hidden inside make. The sparc build daemon doesn't use

Re: Any chance of a rebuilt glibc, a new binutils and a gcc-3.2 for woody?

2002-08-16 Thread James Troup
Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the newely released gcc-3.2 has some major improvements in C++ > common ABI, I was just wondering if we could expect a gcc-3.2 for > woody. > > If so, the glibc requires a rebuild with a newer binutils, one is just > recently released off of binu

Re: Is the sparc buildd having problems? /tmp full?

2002-09-09 Thread James Troup
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did the machine run out of space on /tmp or something? No, it's a fun race condition where packages uploaded in reasonably quick succession can cause the source tree of the second upload to disappear out from under the buildd. vore, as one of the f

Re: searching access to a sparc sid box ...

2002-10-04 Thread James Troup
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:40:42AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Yes, i did see it in the database today. Thanks. > > > > > > BTW, are you the buildd maintainer ? if yes, you could sign the ocaml > > > sparc built from september 24, so it get uploaded w

Re: Recent gcl build failures: texinfo and texi2html

2002-10-29 Thread James Troup
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > All other arches compile this documentation correctly. The reported > > missing files are in the source tarball. If I download and install > > the texinfo and texi2html reported in the logs, I can interactively > > build this documentation on these two

Re: Ultra60 for production environment?

2003-03-11 Thread James Troup
Chris Beggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Mar 2003, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This machine has been in production for almost two years now (maybe >> more?). > > Is is running debian stable, testing, or unstable? It runs stable, i.e. it use to run potato but now runs woody