Package renaming?

1999-05-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
How do I handle the case where the upstream author renames a package? I have a package, gtksamba. It is conditionally compiled to produce to binary packages: gtksamba and gtksamba-gnome. Upstream is renaming it to gnosamba, and dropping support for gtk-only. The original package has never made it

Pidfiles for daemons running as daemon or noboby

1999-05-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
For security reasons, it is frequently recommended that daemons that do not require root privileges be run as `noboby' or as `daemon'. Since root privileges are required to write to /var/run, such daemons can not write a standard pidfile. One obvious solution is to hack the source so it