On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("bc-1.03-8 uploaded"):
> > added /usr/doc/dc with dc.texinfo man Makefile
>[...]
> Why ? The texinfo file is a piece of source code and belongs in the
> source package.
Actually, I thought back to an exchange you and I had perhap
Package: elf-libgdbm
Version: 1.7.3-0
Installing produces the following error:
Selecting previously deselected package elf-libgdbm.
Unpacking elf-libgdbm (from elf-libgdbm-1.7.3-0.deb) ...
Setting up elf-libgdbm ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/elf-libgdbm.postinst: /sbin/ldconfig: No such fil
Hallo Ian Jackson!
}Peter Tobias asks me in email:
}> Ian Jackson wrote:
}> > Package: netbase
}> > Version: 1.19-1
}> >
}> > I've now tracked down what it is that keeps reenabling my syslog's
}> > network listening: the netbase package's /etc/services file has syslog
}> > uncommented.
}> >
}> > C
Package: perl
Version: 5.001-5.elf
The new elf perl package depends on version 5 of the math library.
However, as far as I can tell, version 5 has not been released yet (as
a debian package).
Preparing to replace perl (using perl-5.001-5.elf.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl ...
Settin
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.001-5.elf
>
> The new elf perl package depends on version 5 of the math library.
> However, as far as I can tell, version 5 has not been released yet (as
> a debian package).
There is, see the following transcript from ftp.debian.org:
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bugs jdassen 3:42 /debian.org/f
Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.2-13
There were no links to /etc/init.d/sysklogd in /etc/rc2.d so klogd
and syslogd didn't get started.
The culprit is these lines in the postinst script.
update-rc.d sysklogd defaults 10 90 >/dev/null
# Purge the files of the old "syslog" package, it's now called "
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1
It is trivial to make /bin/kill segfault:
$ /bin/kill -l
INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT UNUSED FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The appended patch fixes the bug. I suspect the person who wrote the code
has had some bad m
Bill Hogan writes:
> Now I have a new user named `--version' that I would like to delete only
>I can't seem to find a command that undoes what `adduser' does.
>
> What is the best way to deal with this kind of situation?
Someone should write a `deluser' program and it should get it right...
If
Andrew Howell writes ("Bug#1763: sysklogd init script has no links to rcx.d"):
> Package: sysklogd
> Version: 1.2-13
>
> There were no links to /etc/init.d/sysklogd in /etc/rc2.d so klogd
> and syslogd didn't get started.
>
> The culprit is these lines in the postinst script.
>
> update-rc.d sysklo
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 95 16:59 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin Schulze writes ("sysklogd-1.2-13 released"):
> I'm just trying to upload this package. The changes are only minor
> ones. Here are the relevant ChangeLog entries
>
> ...
>* changed the name in
Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2-4
The /etc/init.d/xdm (and xfs) scripts still source /etc/init.d/functions
- known problem, just yet another package to fix...
Marek
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: changes file format "):
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Are you saying it looks anywhere near as nice as mine ?
>
> Well, I think it looks awful, but I will accept your format simply
> to end this argument if you or someone else
> will write and maintain the parser for it a
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: changes file format "):
> [...]
> I also reiterate my suggestion that we stop the practice
> of maintainers announcing directly (and prematurely)
> to debian-changes, and have the maintainer announcements
> uploaded to debian.org along with the other package files,
> mach
James A. Robinson writes ("Re: changes file format "):
> >847dfb732aa3e994f1917d27ffc20eb3 adduser-1.94-2.deb
> >70fa124c71e5b709019f6729eb8cfe11 adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root13122 Oct 23 18:43 adduser-1.94-2.deb
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root ian 24448 Oct 23
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: * delete mail spool file (what if it's nonempty?)
Tell the person running the script it's non-empty, and ask if they want it
deleted, anyway.
: * delete home directory. What do we do about saving
: files?
S
>> * what if the user has processes running? Or a print
>> job queued? Or mail queued?
>
>Life is too short to worry about this.
Actually I should have written `kill any processes the user owns'
without opening that point to discussion since leaving them running
ha
> : * what about files owned by this user in other
> : directories? (Shared projects, etc.)
>
> We tend to leave them as-is, which I'm not sure is smart. On the other hand,
> a find from / is expensive on a system with lots of disk...
Finding the files and expungin
Ray,
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 08:44:20 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M.Dassen) said:
> bugs jdassen 3:42 /debian.org/ftp/debian/project/experimental/elf#
> dpkg-deb --contents elf-libc-5.2.7-1.deb | grep libm
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 35553 Aug 14 21:22 1995
> usr/i486-linuxelf/lib/libm.so.5.0.
Bill Mitchell writes:
>>> * what about files owned by this user in other
>> directories? (Shared projects, etc.)
>>
>>We tend to leave them as-is, which I'm not sure is smart. On the
>>other hand, a find from / is expensive on a system with lots of
>>disk...
>
>Find
Ian Jackson writes:
> Since the package should not have been renamed (see my recent message
> on debian-devel) this is all moot, but what should really have been
> done was just to add the extra `k' to the existing links.
Considering it's now in binary/base and probably on the new disk set Bruce
i
Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Um, I was thinking more of arranging for them to be changed to another
> uid, or at least telling the sysadmin they exist - leaving them as
> they are risks trouble when some new user is created.
>
> If I leave the company I work for I'm sure they wo
Ian Jackson writes:
>James A. Robinson writes ("Re: changes file format "):
No, that's me whom you are quoting here
>> >847dfb732aa3e994f1917d27ffc20eb3 adduser-1.94-2.deb
>> >70fa124c71e5b709019f6729eb8cfe11 adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz
>> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root13122 Oct 23 18:43 adduse
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: changes file format "):
> > [...]
> > I also reiterate my suggestion that we stop the practice
> > of maintainers announcing directly (and prematurely)
> > to debian-changes, and have the maintainer announcements
> > uploaded to de
This is being announced to debian-devel, not to debian-changes.
This is beta-test software -- do not put it in the distribution.
Please place this package in private/project/BETA.
This is for beta test by those debian developers who may be so inclined.
Date: Tue Oct 24 22:06:05 PDT 1995
Package:
Ian,
I have uploaded the following files. Please install them, and then you have
my "OK" to make the release. Note that I made a slight change to your root
disk - it now mounts the boot disk read-only instead of read-write.
Thanks
Bruce
1200_boot_floppy.gz
1440_base_floppy-1
144
I had written:
> On a newly created (though slightly fudged) debian system, I'm getting
> the message:
> dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file
or directory
> when I try and use dpkg (-i or -C, for instance).
You replied:
Here is the relevant bit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Release announcements are prepared in whatever way the package
> maintainer likes, and submitted in a format that looks like yours.
It would be nice if we could use the existing "dchanges" tool to do this.
> The announcements are reformatted into a format that looks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> It's important that the distribution channels for the MD5 checksum
> information and the files themselves remain separate. (For this
> reason I think that putting the MD5 checksums in the Incoming
> directory itself is bad - there should be a separate administrative
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> [...]
> > The only thing I think I need to do this is a way to represent a
> > blank line in the dchanges format's "Changes" field.
>
> Didn't you do something like this for the description field in Debian
> packages?
Yes, some
Ok, so here's how things look to me at present:
dpkg is failing because of an ENOENT error return from scandir(3).
scandir is getting this error value from readdir().
I do not know enough about libc to easily determine whether the
readdir() used by scandir is readdir(2) or readdir(3). However,
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 14:05 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> File permissions, link count, ownership an modification times on
> the maintainer's system are not of general interest, why include
> them in an announcement? The rest easily fits onto a single line
> and put
Ian Jackson, Brian White, and The Group,
I notice there's still no "FTP" installation method for "dselect".
The latest base floppy set that I have uploaded is net-enabled. If "dselect"
were able to do direct FTP, that would make it possible to install the system
very easily from an Ethernet-conne
One more bit of information: this problem occurs with libc-4.6.27
--
Raul
Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>We need to be able to feed the announcement to `md5sum -c', which
>expects.
>
> I agree completely. At the moment, I have to run a special script to
> convert the dchanges md5sum format into a format that md5sum -c can
> understand. This is a pain.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:36:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'd intended to drop this topic, but I'll belabor one point here.
If package announcements are uploaded to debian.org for machine
parsing and debian-changes announcements are machine-generated from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I must urge restraint in automating the process. All packages should
> be inspected and moved into the distribution by a human. I am
> strongly of that opinion.
I bet you'll thank us for whatever automation there is once you decide it's
time to have a life again :-) .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> At the moment, I have to run a special script to convert the dchanges
> md5sum format into a format that md5sum -c can understand. This is a
> pain.
I'd like to point out that "dpkg" should verify the package for the end-user.
Someone who doesn't know how to write a sc
p.s. Also I was under the impression that GNU (getopt?) used things
on the command line like
--rev
as option-selectors with option name-completion.
I was very surprised to see that `adduser' accepted `--version' as
a username!
Bill
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1
Revision: 20
I have a problem with the script checksecurity, which
apparently come with cron. The problem is with the lines that
generate the /var/log/setuid.today file (patch follows).
Explanation: The mount | grep -v command is the problem for
an
Package: cern-httpd
Version: 3.0-4
Bug: installation creates group named `--quiet'.
# diff group group~
2d1
< --quiet::101:
I believe the intention here is to create a group named `www-data'.
BH
Andrew Howell writes ("Re: Bug#1763: sysklogd init script has no links to
rcx.d"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > Since the package should not have been renamed (see my recent message
> > on debian-devel) this is all moot, but what should really have been
> > done was just to add the extra `k' to the e
Bruce Perens writes ("FTP method for "dselect" needed"):
> I notice there's still no "FTP" installation method for "dselect".
> The latest base floppy set that I have uploaded is net-enabled. If "dselect"
> were able to do direct FTP, that would make it possible to install the system
> very easily
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 02:44 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The new syslog package with the `k' in its name should be REMOVED
from the distribution and replaced with the old one with the `k'.
I said a while ago that it should not be moved into it, and now
that it has bee
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 22:09 EST
From: Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 02:44 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The new syslog package with the `k' in its name should be REMOVED
from the distribution and replaced with the old one with the `k
Bruce and Bill: I'd like you to read the suggestions below in the
light of my recent comments on debian-private and see which of them
you agree with. Any that you both agree with go ahead and do, Bill,
the rest we can talk about :-).
1) Can there be an option to include a pre-prepared piece of te
Raul Miller writes:
> It does look like scandir() is the culprit -- and dpkg-deb -I also
> fails. I've written perl programs which call readdir() on this new
> system and they seem to work fine, so I have some confidence that this
> isn't a umsdos filesystem implementation problem (though I'm not
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