Bug#20373: Code ready for partial solution

2000-09-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 I have coded a partial solution to this problem before I read this bug. it's not as nice as a start-rc.d script, but it IS simpler (OTH, it requires more code to be added in the postinst scripts, and it's a less generic solution). I can, however, write a st

Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities

2000-09-25 Thread Britton
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/ has some info, the README has some pointers as well. /usr/include/linux/capability.h is well commented and tells you the different capabilities that are available. Britton Kerin On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, >

Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.

2000-09-25 Thread Britton
> > But anyway, capabilities are useable without fs support. > > Definitely. Some daemons like proftpd already use them. > > Also, keep in mind that the set of capilities differs between 2.2 and > 2.4 kernels if memory serves me correctly, and people are still looking > at making sure the curren

Re: : Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.

2000-09-25 Thread Greg Stark
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally (and I realize others do disagree), my feeling is: > > - Kerberos 4 is obsolete and should not be used anymore. MIT no longer > support it. There is only one mainstream application that still > requires Kerberos 4: AFS. It could be argued that A

Re: Bug#72335: [PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2000-09-25 Thread Roman Hodek
> it means that very rarely can Build-Depends-Indep used, and also > that build daemons building only architecture-dependent parts of the > package need often install also everything needed to build the > architecture-independent parts. This is not good. Right. > However, to make use of the prop

Re: : Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.

2000-09-25 Thread Brian May
> "Greg" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> That would be clean, but it's not practical, in this case Greg> I'm talking about kerberos and /etc/krb.conf and Greg> /etc/krb.realms. These files are standardized upstream and Greg> we can't start moving them around. I