Re: GPG key

2001-09-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:09:27AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Yes, OpenPGP lets you sign uids. (I even think that you can *only* > sign uids, but this may be my misconception.) Yes, you can only sign UIDs. When you sign someone's key (or rather, a UID on someone's key) you are certifying

Change of homepage address

2001-09-17 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, this is just to say that my homepage is moving from http://anonimo.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/ to http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/ the octave, bloksi etc directories have been moved there. Sorry for the inconvenience. Etienne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first, dpkg-shlibdeps checks a few shared objects files which > resides in the packages own subdir in /usr/lib, since they are > just some sort of plugins, but shlibdeps complains: > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libmla_mdata_netmask.so not > reco

Re: GPG key

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Signing the key itself rather than an identity on the key wouldn't > really have much point - it is pretty much self evident that a GPG key > is a GPG key and it would be hard to attach much more meaning to a > signature on the key itself than that. I tho

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > hi :) > > second, i get the lintian warning: > W: modlogan: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/modlogan > /usr/lib/modlogan > > i can't really tell what's wrong with this ... please enlighten > me here as well. > be

Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
Hi! I've got a little dilemma and I'm sure more experienced DD can help me with it. I'm packaging a log analyzer (fwlogwatch) that can execute a couple of scripts depending on some events. These scripts can be tuned by local administrator to fit his needs. I wanted to make them conffiles since i

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > first, dpkg-shlibdeps checks a few shared objects files which > > resides in the packages own subdir in /usr/lib, since they are > > just some sort of plugins, but shlibdeps complains: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of

Re: Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
I think it would be better to modify those scripts to `source' some configuration files from /etc/fwlogwatch. That way, the administrator wouldn't need to touch the scripts in /usr/sbin, yet, there would be a way to tweak them. However, it might not be trivial to do so (I didn't look at the packa

Re: Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I make them conffiles? Either that. Or seperate the things that an admin would likely tune into a conffile that is sourced by the script. The latter is appropriate for large scripts containing only small "user-servicable" parts. > In

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libmla_mdata_netmask.so not > > > recognized > > Do ldd and objdump -p work correctly on the files? > > yes they do afaict Ah, I see clearly now: dpkg-shlibdeps means that the format of the *name* of libmla_mdat

Re: GPG key

2001-09-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:09:27AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Yes, OpenPGP lets you sign uids. (I even think that you can *only* > sign uids, but this may be my misconception.) Yes, you can only sign UIDs. When you sign someone's key (or rather, a UID on someone's key) you are certifying t

Change of homepage address

2001-09-17 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, this is just to say that my homepage is moving from http://anonimo.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/ to http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/ the octave, bloksi etc directories have been moved there. Sorry for the inconvenience. Etienne

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first, dpkg-shlibdeps checks a few shared objects files which > resides in the packages own subdir in /usr/lib, since they are > just some sort of plugins, but shlibdeps complains: > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libmla_mdata_netmask.so not > recog

Re: GPG key

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Signing the key itself rather than an identity on the key wouldn't > really have much point - it is pretty much self evident that a GPG key > is a GPG key and it would be hard to attach much more meaning to a > signature on the key itself than that. I thou

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > hi :) > > second, i get the lintian warning: > W: modlogan: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/modlogan > /usr/lib/modlogan > > i can't really tell what's wrong with this ... please enlighten > me here as well. > be s

Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
Hi! I've got a little dilemma and I'm sure more experienced DD can help me with it. I'm packaging a log analyzer (fwlogwatch) that can execute a couple of scripts depending on some events. These scripts can be tuned by local administrator to fit his needs. I wanted to make them conffiles since it

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > first, dpkg-shlibdeps checks a few shared objects files which > > resides in the packages own subdir in /usr/lib, since they are > > just some sort of plugins, but shlibdeps complains: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of

Re: Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
I think it would be better to modify those scripts to `source' some configuration files from /etc/fwlogwatch. That way, the administrator wouldn't need to touch the scripts in /usr/sbin, yet, there would be a way to tweak them. However, it might not be trivial to do so (I didn't look at the packag

Re: Shell scripts as conffiles and /usr

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I make them conffiles? Either that. Or seperate the things that an admin would likely tune into a conffile that is sourced by the script. The latter is appropriate for large scripts containing only small "user-servicable" parts. > In

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps strange messages and lintian error (rpath)

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libmla_mdata_netmask.so not > > > recognized > > Do ldd and objdump -p work correctly on the files? > > yes they do afaict Ah, I see clearly now: dpkg-shlibdeps means that the format of the *name* of libmla_mdata