Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > > An absolute path passed to dlopen() will work and cause the least > > security problems ([...]). > Couldn't I just use -rpath for the same effect? You could, but... > AFAIK the -rpath is searched before any other locations for the libs, > and since eve

Re: sed command is fine from within a shell script but not fromwithin debian/rules?

2000-09-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > >> sed -e '/\exec \/usr\/bin\/wish8.3 \$0 \${1+"\$@"}/a\$ > >You need to escape the dollar signs as "$$" and probably the backslashes > >too. > No, the backslashes should be left alone here: [...] Yup, I was unsure about that. Simon -- PGP publi

Re: sed command is fine from within a shell script but not fromwithin debian/rules?

2000-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: >> I am trying to adjust a tcl program to the Debian policy by running a >> sed command from within debian\rules. However this command seems to >> do what I want from within a shell script but not from within >> debian

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-05 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: || ldconfig is an anachronism (from the a.out days) that should die with the || last a.out executable. Unfortunately, a.out executables will be around for a long long time to come as legacy software. If Debian has compiled everythin

Re: sed command is fine from within a shell script but not fromwithin debian/rules?

2000-09-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am trying to adjust a tcl program to the Debian policy by running a sed > command from within debian\rules. However this command seems to do what I want > from within a shell script but not from within debian\rules. > sed -e '/\exec \/usr\/bin\/wish8.3

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a singlebinary

2000-09-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > > An absolute path passed to dlopen() will work and cause the least > > security problems ([...]). > Couldn't I just use -rpath for the same effect? You could, but... > AFAIK the -rpath is searched before any other locations for the libs, > and since ev

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-05 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:58:46AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: || ldconfig is an anachronism (from the a.out days) that should die with the || last a.out executable. Unfortunately, a.out executables will be around for a long long time to come as legacy software. If Debian has compiled everythi

sed command is fine from within a shell script but not from within debian/rules?

2000-09-05 Thread Shaul Karl
I am trying to adjust a tcl program to the Debian policy by running a sed command from within debian\rules. However this command seems to do what I want from within a shell script but not from within debian\rules. Does debian\rules sets different environment for shell commands? In order to track

sed command is fine from within a shell script but not from within debian/rules?

2000-09-05 Thread Shaul Karl
I am trying to adjust a tcl program to the Debian policy by running a sed command from within debian\rules. However this command seems to do what I want from within a shell script but not from within debian\rules. Does debian\rules sets different environment for shell commands? In order to trac

Re: Request for advice on packaging of libgoops

2000-09-05 Thread Rob Browning
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you usually handle version numbering and control files under > such circumstances? (Is GUILEVERSION-GOOPSVERSION as showed above > OK?) > > Should I produce two separate source packages for libgoops1.3 and > libgoops1.4? Sorry I haven't gott

RE: lintian complains about unknown control files

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Sep-2000 Domenico Andreoli wrote: > package i maintain (hping2) now uses debconf to ask a question. in order > to make it do this, i had to use debian/config and debian/templates files. > > everything works very well, but lintian complains about unknown control > files referring to debian/c

RE: wnpp and RFS

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Sep-2000 Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > EHLO all, > may I use wnpp and BTS for a request for sponsor? > > AFAIK, RFS tag is not present in wnpp doc. > please send them to this list, not the BTS.

Re: Request for advice on packaging of libgoops

2000-09-05 Thread Rob Browning
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you usually handle version numbering and control files under > such circumstances? (Is GUILEVERSION-GOOPSVERSION as showed above > OK?) > > Should I produce two separate source packages for libgoops1.3 and > libgoops1.4? Sorry I haven't got

RE: lintian complains about unknown control files

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Sep-2000 Domenico Andreoli wrote: > package i maintain (hping2) now uses debconf to ask a question. in order > to make it do this, i had to use debian/config and debian/templates files. > > everything works very well, but lintian complains about unknown control > files referring to debian/

RE: wnpp and RFS

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Sep-2000 Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > EHLO all, > may I use wnpp and BTS for a request for sponsor? > > AFAIK, RFS tag is not present in wnpp doc. > please send them to this list, not the BTS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Simon Richter schrieb: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > > Syslogd uses dlopen() to load the modules, thus ld.so has to > > find the library for syslogd. > > Nope. An absolute path passed to dlopen() will work and cause the least > security problems (on many systems, a group of users has

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Simon Richter schrieb: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > > Syslogd uses dlopen() to load the modules, thus ld.so has to > > find the library for syslogd. > > Nope. An absolute path passed to dlopen() will work and cause the least > security problems (on many systems, a group of users ha