Once again I ask, please do not use procmail or any other automated system to report mail to razor that comes from a Debian list!!!
From: Andris Kalnozols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SNORT not adding entries to snort/portscan ??? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:25:47 PST Delivery-date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:37:04 -0500 X-Razor-Warning: SPAM. Regards, Phil On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 at 06:25:47PM -0800, Andris Kalnozols wrote: > > Perhaps I did not state this clearly enough. The majority of cases > > I run across are caused by an entirely unnecessary dependancy to > > a version of libc6 which isn't in any way required for the package > > in question. Yes, one can fix this manually. Every time, for every > > package. Which naturally means you do it once or twice and then > > say "oh forget it" and wait a year or whatever until the next stable > > upgrade. > > > > Package Dependencies on lib versions (or any other entity for that > > matter) really are several entirely different things: > > > > * the API changed and my application will fail with any > > lib version prior to this one because it relies on > > the changes. > > > > * bug fixes went into this lib version without which my > > app will crash. > > > > * bug fixes went into this version which I specifically > > want/prefer for my application, but it won't crash > > on the older one. > > > > * I just like to use the latest set of lib version digits > > for no particular reason. > > > > I suspect the majority of package version dependencies fall into > > the last category. > > > > If this was dealt with, there would be a much higher level of > > interoperability between packages in various dists. Still a > > caveat emptor, but far, far easier to deal with. > > Is this an example of what you mean? > > /usr/sbin/sendmail: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found > (required by /usr/sbin/sendmail) > > After `apt-get' upgraded sendmail to 8.12.6, this error appeared. > As I recall from another Debian list, the response from whoever > compiled this version was something like "Oops, stuff happens > in the testing distro" but, a month later, there's still no working > replacement. How does one go about fixing this kind of problem? > > Andris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.txt | gpg --import -- Excuse #41: Bank holiday - system operating credits not recharged -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
