Bug#115109: liblockdev1: can't cope with devfs-style devices

2001-10-10 Thread Enrik Berkhan
Package: liblockdev1 Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: important Hi, liblockdev strips the dirname of a device and then prepends `/dev/' to it. Thus it checks for the existance of `/dev/0', for example, when you call dev_lock(`/dev/tts/0'). Suggestion: check FHS or whatever is appropriate for how this

Bug#115108: liblockdev1: questionable and useless umask(0)

2001-10-10 Thread Enrik Berkhan
Package: liblockdev1 Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: important Hi, liblockdev creates device lockfiles with full permissions using umask(00). A quote from the changelog: > * added change in umask value to allow full permissions to lock > files. (this is questionable: would it be better to add

Bug#109378: vic: Patch to allow build on ia64

2001-10-10 Thread John R. Daily
Package: vic Version: N/A; reported 2001-10-10 The following patch should allow the software to build on ia64. I make no guarantees as to whether the software runs properly, because there are over 1200(!) warnings in the build log even with this patch. The package also requires a config.sub/gues