I got visudo working

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Baumgarten
to summerize my experiences with the visudo bug so far, 1. sudo will not build unless umask is something other than 000 even though /etc/login.defs says the default should be 022. I set the umask to 002 and 022 in a normal users's .profile and on both occasions sudo builds. 2. use-flock-on-hurd.di

I figured out why use-flock-on-hurd.diff was not being applied

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Baumgarten
The reason the patch was not being applied was 1. The patch was not listed in debian/patches/series so it was not queued up. 2. The patch was for configure.in it no longer exists for sudo now there is a configure.ac So if I just copy paste the the changes to the patch to configure.ac will that hav

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Peter Baumgarten, le Wed 12 Mar 2014 22:16:19 -0500, a écrit : > I simply created a sudo directory and then ran apt-get --build source > sudo as a normal user, and the part of the script where this is > happening is debian/rules build inside of sudo-1.8.9p5 directory. The > question I am as

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-13 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > For now if you can point me to where I can find any relevant code you have > available for the building procedure ,especially the part for glibc and > libpthread, I will be grateful. :-) I've dumped my build scripts to GitHub[0]. T

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Samuel Thibault skribis: > Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 12:19:44 +0100, a écrit : >> I can mentor the project, but I would really like someone from the Hurd >> side to co-mentor. Any volunteer? (This is essentially already the >> case in practice, but we could make it official.) > > I ca