KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-04 Thread Brian May
n't available in sarge. Is this a known problem? I think this might be because of a broken security update, so I have CCed the security team too. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: curl situation is intolerable

2005-09-13 Thread Brian May
t would be possible to have both packages implement the same ABI and become drop in replacements for each other. Oh, BTW, gnutls isn't a complete 100% solution either, IIRC packages exist that require openssl because the license is GPL incompatible. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Brian May
ey> include a "Version:" pseudo-header[2]. What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval

2005-10-21 Thread Brian May
notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/confirm/pkg-openssl-devel/91facf25272f4a5492f6675f4d7e0611dd80f72e --- End Message --- -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
ecure - I think the only reason it was requested was because of AFS requirements - does that reason still apply? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs Brian> (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May Brian> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has the "reassign" comma

confused MTA - body != headers

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
4.50) id 1ETcoa-00032V-E1 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:10:57 +0200 Received: by p9.dpk.berlin.fido (FIDOGATE 4.4.10) id AA10674; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:02:19 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:29:36 +0200 From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Drop KRB4 support fr

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
cting with kerberos4kth, due to conflicts between shared libraries used. Does this matter? Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive anyway? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
xed them all. The relevant patch file in debian/patches/012_sharedlibs, regenerate the autoconf patch with debian/scripts/autotools. Requires automake 1.8. There is also the issue of the versioned symbols patch not applying cleanly. Any help appreciated, Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Brian May
ow you damn well Ben> better be." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_ According to upstream there is some sort of support for krb4 in Heimdal 0.7.1, at least enough to make AFS happy. I haven't yet got my package to compile yet so I don't know if this will be sufficient for

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
expectedly receiving mail for a system user that isn't even used (consider $HOME/Maildir), or any number of other unwanted things. However, this has to be done carefully, or you end up doing the wrong thing. e.g. deluser -r $USER, in the past, has been pure evil if the home directory has been changed to "/"! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
efore the network is configured - but it hasn't bothered me enough to investigate why yet.) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> There have been increasing calls for me to drop krb4 Brian> support in Heimdal (first in bug #315059 and now by Brian> upstream in bug #334632 - it would also solve #236851). It

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-29 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:18 +1000, Brian May Marc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the code "just" calls adduser, this would seem to be a bug, >&g

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread Brian May
"); $package = stdout(execute("apt-file","search",$file)); } This infinite recursion will take several minutes (maximum) to execute, I think (assuming the if test succeeds). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-05 Thread Brian May
les to indicate where "/tmp" is. Not only that, but some programs don't even give a clear understandable error if the directory doesn't exist. So if you miss one, beware, you might get unpredictable errors. Can't we just pick one standard name for the environment variable and stick to it? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-proxy

2005-11-06 Thread Brian May
ch means I can't rebuild my package for sarge in order to see if it fixes a bug I encountered while testing another piece of Debian software. ARgghh! Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Brian May
aving difficulties without requiring the remote user run screen in multiuser mode. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
n after recompiling. * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working (assuming I don't already have it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
-). I don't think it should be too hard, I suspect the package needs to be changed to use the wtmp API in libc6 (assuming my memory is correct and such an API exists). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
all ? AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed then it won't get displayed. Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to support the new versioning system in the BTS. This could also solve the issue that the mirror you use might be out-of-date and still have a buggy pack

Re: debconf best practices: how to ask for a password?

2008-01-29 Thread Brian May
his way you can see if there is a password or not, and you get visual feedback when entering a password that it is being received too (another issue I have had in the past; not sure why it confused me so much now). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Brian May
tar.gz http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-072.ogg http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-072.spx -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Brian May
d, however I suspect this header is not the solution. Brian May. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

heimdal and testing

2008-04-27 Thread Brian May
imapd> is broken due to #411240 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411240> (shouldn't this be RC?) and a dependency on libkvm-dev <http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libkvm-dev> which is no longer in Debian. Is there anything I can do about this

Re: heimdal and testing

2008-04-28 Thread Brian May
5-24-heimdal could still enter testing without updating all users of the library at the same time. Maybe this has changed. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about the libpam-ldap debian package.

2008-05-07 Thread Brian May
ind of tedious to do this manually. Is it possible to automate this without losing my sanity in the process? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[DSA 1571-1] Heimdal

2008-05-14 Thread Brian May
Apparently, Heimdal in Debian also is affected. I am not aware of any solution other then to manually regenerate all keys. Brian May --- Begin Message --- I strongly advise all readers of this list that use Debian or might have users in your realm (or any realms for which cross-realm key

Re: Mailing lsit code of conduct, again

2008-05-18 Thread Brian May
Debian/etch doesn't even have a reply to list function (although it did the right thing for this email when I did "reply-all"; strange; maybe I am wrong and it really does support MFT at least when replying? Still I can't see how to set it automatically for outgoing emails)

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Brian May
Osamu Aoki wrote: Shorter summary of vote data goes as: cvs 5% subversion9% git-core 3% mercurial 0.6% darcs 0.3% bzr 0.3% Does monotone not get a mention? or was monotone missed? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

heimdal 1.2

2008-06-05 Thread Brian May
Is it OK if I upload what I have got so far to Debian experimental? If so I will probably do so tomorrow when I get the rest compiling. Yuck. Looks like the soname for libkrb5-24-heimdal has been increased to 25 :-(. Thanks. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-09 Thread Brian May
No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? Brian May wrote: Hello, After messing around with autoconf/automake/libtool stuff for ages, I eventually

libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-09 Thread Brian May
would appear to be a bad thing. Is there anyway to configure the ldap libraries not to read from $HOME/.ldaprc? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-10 Thread Brian May
used and > will break people's scripts if it goes away. > On my computers I would rather break this functionality, which I hardly ever use anyway (and on the one time I did use it caused random programs to segfault when I forgot about it several years later). Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-12 Thread Brian May
tory `/home/brian/tmp/debian/mine/heimdal/heimdal-1.2.dfsg.1' make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 I guess I could touch rfc3454.txt and then touch bidi_table.c before building, but this looks like it could

Re: Correct way to rename a binary package

2008-06-14 Thread Brian May
I was under the impression the "conflicts" was considered bad (it makes upgrading from an old version of cl-hunchentoot to hunchentoot harder), and it was generally better to leave the conflicts out and rely on the replaces header alone. Or... maybe this is a slightly different

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-15 Thread Brian May
asters missed the point that it is an existing package already in main and should not get moved to non-free. Unfortunately this was an issue because one of the sonames for one of the shared libraries was also incremented, resulting in the package being marked as new. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Brian May
Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK grub (at least the default "legacy" version) also still has problems with / on XFS. That's the one other case where D-I automatically falls back to lilo. I think you mean /boot on XFS. Having / as XFS seems to work fine for me... Brian May -- To UNS

Re: esound

2008-06-20 Thread Brian May
ossibly be a suggests) In Ubunty Hardy the first depends doesn't appear to exist. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-21 Thread Brian May
o file bug report. My main concern wasn't the crash though, it was the fact that I could override the certificates used for checking the remote LDAP server used for checking sudo passwords in the untrusted user's home directory. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Brian May
that, having one entire package for one key file seems like overkill to me; is there not any other way of securely distributing the key? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Brian May
-technical people. Would it be possible to simplify this? or wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Brian May
s who want the old stuff or the users who want the new stuff? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Brian May
it would be good if there was a tool I could use to automatically compare the output of lintian with the list documented here so I can find out what problems I might have without making a useless upload. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Brian May
loading the package as well as fixing the original issue? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

install-info changes

2009-11-16 Thread Brian May
l-info", as installing dpkg doesn't resolve the dependency on install-info. Thanks for any help! -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#552677: install-info changes

2009-11-22 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:46:59PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Brian May , 2009-11-17, 12:30: > [...] > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > > install-info (due to

Re: Bug#552677: install-info changes

2009-11-22 Thread Brian May
t want to install an info-browser package. On the assumption I got this correct, I will change the "rm" statement to "rm -f". I assumed install-info did more them just creating the unwanted /usr/share/info/dir file. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-22 Thread Brian May
source package heimdal What does error 25 mean? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:12:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? > > sys11:/home/brian/tree/heimdal# lintian heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-5_i386.changes > warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges! > internal error: command fa

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:02:02AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Brian May wrote: > > Next problem: > > > > [...] > > dpkg-source -b heimdal-1.3.1.dfsg.1 > > dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' > > dpkg-so

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:30:59PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Ok, I did the following: Disregard those results, I screwed up and forgot to cd into the new working directory after I moved the old one. So it looked OK but wasn't. Retry. Hmmm. So far it looks better... -- Brian May

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-26 Thread Brian May
hes get applies. With the new source code system, my understanding is that the patches get applied in the opposite order - patches from debian/patches get applied first, and any extra changes are applied last in the list. Hence it didn't work, as the autotools patch was based on changes I hadn&#

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-29 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:12:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? Just a general observation, it is rather painful to have to set and maintian QUILT_PATCHES by hand everytime I want to modify a patch. There have been a number of times now I have accidentally created

Bug#560216: Missing symbol HEIMDAL_KRB5_1.0

2009-12-09 Thread Brian May
tream? Thanks. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#560216: Missing symbol HEIMDAL_KRB5_1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Brian May
orting back to upstream? > > I'd think a rebuild of the debian package providing krb5-auth-dialog > against current Debian Heimdal packages would suffice. I have talked to upstream (see bug #560357), and they acknowledged they forgot to increase the soname version. This is the corr

Re: Bug#561401: heimdal: FTBFS: Uses quilt in debian/rules, patches fail to apply.

2009-12-16 Thread Brian May
bs patching file tools/krb5-config.in Hunk #1 FAILED at 135. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file tools/krb5-config.in Patch 011_sharedlibs can be reverse-applied ... This seems wrong. Why did the quilt pop command fail to remove the patches? Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-27 Thread Brian May
ak badly because I have to change the output hostname -f returns. Also, FQDNs are really not applicable to, say laptops, which frequently change from one network to another. Or some desktops even. I notice on this Ubuntu laptop `hostname` == `hostname -f` perhaps for this reason. -- Brian May --

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Brian May
broken all virtual servers when I upgraded a package that recreated a symlink to a config file there - probably safest just to delete the "Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/" in this situation. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#332739: Processed: retitle 332739 to debian packages are not safe to build on AFS, since find is typically used without -noleaf ...

2007-01-22 Thread Brian May
m specific changes like this into every package would seem to be the wrong solution, IMHO. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#332739: Processed: retitle 332739 to debian packages are not safe to build on AFS, since find is typically used without -noleaf ...

2007-01-22 Thread Brian May
think users of find should need to add a file-system specific option to the command line just to get it to work. It would be like if there was a separate version of ls for every filesystem, eg. ls_ext2, ls_xfs, ls_resierfs, ls_vfat - OK - maybe this is a bit extreme, but I think it illustrates my po

nsswitch.conf

2007-02-03 Thread Brian May
-dnsind-local-names-05.txt Yes - I know - it has expired - the only other standard I know of that reserves top level domains though is RFC2606[2], and I don't consider it appropriate any of these for a local computer network. [2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html -- Brian May <[EMAIL P

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Brian May
ll libnss-* packages were consistent in the way they handle (or don't handle) automatic updates to /etc/nsswitch.conf. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP memlockd

2007-02-08 Thread Brian May
How much memory typically needs to be locked for this to be beneficial? (I guess this would depend on what PAM and NSS modules you use...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get dpkg-deb to ignore hidden/backup files + why extra control file?

2007-02-12 Thread Brian May
es file will copy the files into a temp directory, and then these are used to create the package. I also suspect you might want to create proper Debian source packages - if so you might want to look for a more appropriate reference... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-13 Thread Brian May
;t running) I wonder could this problem be nscd related? Does nscd make any attempts to preserve order? I suspect not... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-13 Thread Brian May
r is pointless, and automatically configuring it via a debconf question may introduce a false sense of security. (unless you modify/recompile login to bypass PAM checks in which case it would be easy enough for a sysadmin to add the user entry). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-13 Thread Brian May
entry, as presumably the developers didn't consider the case where one numeric uid can belong to many users. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-15 Thread Brian May
seen it as a de-facto standard - if this is a defacto standard we want to preserve or not is another matter. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-15 Thread Brian May
.conf(5) for the details. Steve> IIRC this is the default in Debian because Ben Collins had Steve> an unhealthy affection for NIS. :) Any chance of changing the default on new installations? My understanding is that compat is mode to allow the +/- syntax which is considered obsole

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Brian May
According to the comment in my libnss-ldap you can: # Your LDAP server. Must be resolvable without using LDAP. # Multiple hosts may be specified, each separated by a # space. How long nss_ldap takes to failover depends on # whether your LDAP client library supports configurable # network or connec

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Brian May
this bug even exists. As such I cannot send you this email because I have forgotten it needs to be sent." . -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

heimdal and ldap

2007-02-26 Thread Brian May
libldap because no -dev package exists yet. libdap2-dev is version 2.1.30 not 2.3.30-4 As far as I can tell there is no intention to fix this either: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332693;msg=10 has no replies. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Brian May
y need to change the location of the socket from /var/run/ldapi to /var/run/slapd/ldapi? If it wasn't for this change, the old libraries would work fine. Even a backward compatibility symlink would help. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Brian May
packaging but Russ> am not really a core member of the group.) The bug reporter says "symlinking /var/run/ldapi to /var/run/slapd/ldapi immediately works around the problem." -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daylight saving time and RTC clock

2007-03-26 Thread Brian May
t was it called again? I think it was this "Windows" program made be a small company somewhere in USA ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-04-01 Thread Brian May
ask than Russell> determining how to correctly manage MAC addresses. I use static MAC addresses for all my Xen hosts, and believe this is the recommended practise by Xen upstream. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wouter> Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:40:46 +0100 Wouter> You didn't fail basic math, did you? ;-) Just remember to subtract 1 hour, don't add it. I could imagine people getting this wr

Re: Error with fakeroot

2007-04-19 Thread Brian May
Y 691495543 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $FAKEROOTKEY Maybe the original poster may have typed in "fakeroot" by itself without realizing it changed the environment. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

2007-05-05 Thread Brian May
the version number of mysql-server-4.1 was wrong, in the general case, this might just mean a backward compatibility layer or something was installed (again this case not applicable for this package). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-17 Thread Brian May
t need. This in turn can result in errors when experimenting with new packages where it is not immediately obvious it is due to a package that is not installed that perhaps should be. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-initramfs -k all -u

2007-05-18 Thread Brian May
sts and how to David> tell grub to use it. ...or if using a platform not supported by Grub. Including all PowerPC systems for example. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-20 Thread Brian May
nes of "I don't know why this package is suggested maybe I will have to install it anyway just in case... Lets hope I have enough disk space..." (sure, it is unlikely you would run out of disk space installing the mentioned package, but for the general case, it is very possible.) --

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-20 Thread Brian May
on httpd as an alternative, so perhaps this specific example is no longer an issue. However the concept still stands. I did notice one package (education-main-server) recommends "apache2 | apache" but I am not going to try and work out if apache is really required or not. -- Brian May

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Brian May
enough to have an effect? Yes. Greg> And he will probably ask himself two more: Greg> 1. Could I put it more shortly? No. Greg> 2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? No. Sorry, couldn't resist! ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Brian May
I suspect the maintainers have already encountered similar issues to yours. I can't remember the details of how clamav-freshclam works right now though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups

2007-07-04 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marco" == Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> Hope that some day we will switch to upstart. Ok, so when do we switch to upstart? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-07 Thread Brian May
have correctly altered all the bits that need to be altered. The patch is the last patch in the sequence of patches in debian/patches, using quilt. It should be easy to find. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-11 Thread Brian May
doesn't as Russ> well, and I'd think that Love would at least be happy to Russ> take a patch even if he doesn't have time to write it Russ> himself. Anyone here willing to write such a patch if upstream would accept it? The current patch may not be accept

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-15 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> Out of curiosity, have you talked to Love about this issue Russ> already? Given that MIT Kerberos supp

Re: Bug#433168: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-15 Thread Brian May
would benefit greatly from a filesystem that is Rogério> not as limited as FAT32 as pointed out above. I would really like to see this. I very much dislike FAT32, and use HFS+ on my portable USB hard disk for transferring large files between Linux and Mac OSX. (now if only Windows supported HFS...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-07 Thread Brian May
Hello, Can I please have some input into this bug report? The report itself seems valid, ideally these packages shouldn't conflict. Solving this in such a way as not to break lots of stuff could be awkward though. Ideas? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Brian May
Bastian Blank wrote: >> (BTW, Brian, this discussion reminds me that I'd like to use alternatives >> for krb5.conf.5 so that krb5-doc and heimdal-doc don't need to conflict. >> > > Prdon, this is missuse of that mechanism. man already can do that. >

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-12 Thread Brian May
vulnerable to this. It would still be possible to mount this attack if the attacker can intercept packets on the way to the official trusted security mirror and redirect them (e.g. transparent proxy) to an older copy of the mirror. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Clarification about bug #463538 is needed

2008-07-19 Thread Brian May
miss something? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread Brian May
ome of the objections raised here to various proposals would go go away. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Brian May
ave I registered on? The big problem with openid is not many websites I use regularly support it (yet). I was surprised to notice recently sourceforge is one of them. If LP supported it that would certainly be good IMHO. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Packages built with unchecked dependencies

2008-07-24 Thread Brian May
signature checking? (On the topic of schroot and sbuild, I found this references useful; it is getting dated now but some parts are still relevant: <http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2007/sbuild/> if only it mentioned what this "apt-get-update" program/script is) Thanks. Brian May

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-29 Thread Brian May
Charles Plessy wrote: > Actually, it was suggested in this thread to simply not output anything > at all. How about ? > I would like to know what is happening. Anybody who wants to disable something they don't entirely understands gets what they deserve IMHO... Brian May --

Re: dhclient-script, hooks, and changing the environment

2008-08-06 Thread Brian May
kages that come to mind that want to alter the environment of it parent are: * ssh-agent * <http://modules.sourceforge.net/> I guess you could also write a shell script to a temp file and then source that. Not sure if this is any cleaner though. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

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