Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-06-29 Thread Cédric Schieli
Hello list, A rapid scan of bering-uclibc src repo tells following apps have links to other repos rather than a local copy : apps/automake (ftp.gnu.org) apps/buildenv (ftp.gnu.org, ftp.gwdg.de, www.kernel.org) apps/linux (www.de.kernel.org) apps/openssl (www.openssl.org) apps/syslinux (www.kerne

Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-06-29 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:36, Eric Spakman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:30, David Douthitt wrote: > > According to the latest news, it is being reported that the FSF is > > forcing all distributions to carry all source code, including "spinoff" > > distributions. For example, that means that M

Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello David, I'm not sure about other LEAF distributions, but the Bering-uClibc distro has all sources, patches and config files of all programs in Sourceforge's CVS. There may be a few ones linked from other sites, but they can be added to CVS if needed. But I do think that it may affect some ot

[leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-06-29 Thread David Douthitt
According to the latest news, it is being reported that the FSF is forcing all distributions to carry all source code, including "spinoff" distributions. For example, that means that MEPIS must carry the source code to every program that they have released, not just those that they have change

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Cédric Schieli
Hello Eric, > There's also a problem with files which no longer exist (and should be > > removed), as we don't have a .list anymore (it may be created at > > install/upgrade time). > > There is some code in linuxrc (currently commented out) that would create > a .list file on the fly. It's comment

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Cedric, > > A possible problem with this implementation is that programs that are > >> running (like daemons) are not stopped before and started after and >> upgrade. > > > Yes, we'd need some kind of preinst/postinst script to handle that. Or look for an init.d file in the package, like don

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Cédric Schieli
Hello Eric, A possible problem with this implementation is that programs that are > running (like daemons) are not stopped before and started after and > upgrade. Yes, we'd need some kind of preinst/postinst script to handle that. There's also a problem with files which no longer exist (and shou

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Cédric Schieli
Hello Eric, I still have some problems understanding how it exactly works ;) Why is the following piece added? > > else > tar -zxpf $pth > create_sha1 $pkg > fi This is used when there's no pkg.local file. In this case, there's no need to try pre

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Cedric, To reply to myself, I understand. If the package has no config files it can just be installed. A possible problem with this implementation is that programs that are running (like daemons) are not stopped before and started after and upgrade. > I still have some problems understandi

Re: [leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Cedric, Very interesting! I still have some problems understanding how it exactly works ;) Why is the following piece added? else tar -zxpf $pth create_sha1 $pkg fi Regards Eric > > > I've implemented a simple upgrade command for apkg : > "

[leaf-devel] apkg -u (upgrade)

2006-06-29 Thread Cédric Schieli
Hello list, I've implemented a simple upgrade command for apkg : "non local files" and "pristine local files" are overwritten, "modified local files" are preserved. Full script and patch against current CVS can be found at : http://leaf.newel.net/~cedric/work_in_progress/apkg Regards, Cedric U

Re: [leaf-devel] openswan fix

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Nataneal, >> I looked at the link and it appears to be a very old bug. >> > > So its fixed in newer versions of openswan? > No, the version used by Bering-uClibc is 2.4.5 which is the latest stable version released only a few weeks ago and still has the bug. Eric Using Tomcat but need to