Re: status debian/openbsd

2002-10-29 Thread Pavel Cahyna
Hello, [ please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to this list ] [ Note: I'm cutting and pasting from the lists' archive ] > The kernel code seems to have severe race conditions and the > userspace seems to be bitten by a compareable number of security > incidents as e.g. a stabel debian with a correspo

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
>Suggestions on how to properly figure out which libraries things must link >against (especially involving libraries which may or may not be present, >such as libi386 and libm387 - especially the latter) would be appreciated. > > well, libi386 is linked into applic

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:28:44AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Really what I'm trying to find is a way to examine a dump of the object, or > maybe trying to build a static version from the .so, and finding out what > symbols are, and are not, declared in the library ('are not' meaning we > need t

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:22:08PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >Okay. So it's a matter of historical FUBARism - which means I should, at >the very least, have a FIXME to find some way to fix it, and not turn >off the warnings. > >NetBSD arguments aside, this information *s

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
Okay. So it's a matter of historical FUBARism - which means I should, at the very least, have a FIXME to find some way to fix it, and not turn off the warnings. NetBSD arguments aside, this information *should* be used on Debian, simply because it becomes very important when

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:05:50PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on >this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per >library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that Ne

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that NetBSD, unlike Linux, does not have every library dependant on libc (a

Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that NetBSD, unlike Linux, does not have every library dependant on libc (and, in Linux, li