Question about security

2004-11-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
If I believe I have found a security vulnerability in a package what is the proper course of action to follow? -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OT: "Private" shared object libraries?

2005-01-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: I build Firefox from source and just `cp -rL dist/bin` to some directory, and just run 'firefox' from there. I like having the rest of the system unware of Firefox's existence unless I explicitly wire it up. But now I want to mess around with GtkMozEmbed, so I have to regist

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
onitoring the changelog for each of your packages and watching for security-related changes to packages. That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to make it (or another tool) download the changelogs and

Re: ndiswrapper should be in contrib

2005-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
b, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, and * wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free programs. "wrapper" is even in the name. It's only useful function is to facilitate the use of a non-free progra

Re: ndiswrapper should be in contrib

2005-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Roberto Sanchez wrote: From the policy manual: 2.2.2 The contrib section Every package in contrib and non-US/contrib must comply with the DFSG. In addition, the packages in contrib and non-US/contrib * must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them, and * must meet all policy

Re: apt-get should be able to install packages "directly"

2005-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
s now apt-getable. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PHP application packaging policy/best practice?

2005-01-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
hitecture > indepedent, I consider them as programs. > > Any thoughts? Horde and its associated applications install to /usr/share, if that makes any difference to you. -Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
suggestions and feedback. -Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hello Instead of doing all this by hand I can recommend my own package debarchiver. The latest versions of it do this pretty good in an automatic way. Just wanted to let you know. Regards, // Ola Thanks. I'll add some information about it. -Roberto

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > Instead of doing all this by hand I can recommend my own package > debarchiver. The latest versions of it do this pretty good in > an automatic way. > > Just wanted to let you know. > > Regards, > > // Ola > I just added an "Alternatives"

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting "Simon Raven / Eric S. Côté" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le dim 2005-01-09 a 10:18:30 -0500, Ola Lundqvist a dit: > > Hello > > > > > > > > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr/?page=debrepository > > > > found a typo on the page: > > "...if I have pakcages ..." near the top. > > eric c./

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10164 March 1977, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > >> Instead of doing all this by hand I can recommend my own package > >> debarchiver. The latest versions of it do this pretty good in > >> an automatic way. >

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050109 16:49]: > > On 10164 March 1977, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > >> Instead of doing all this by hand I can recommend my own package > > >>

Why are these packages in sarge?

2005-03-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I noticed that kernel-patch-2.6.10-hppa and kernel-patch-2.6.10-s390 are now in Sarge. Should they be there? There is no corresponding kernel-source-2.6.10 package in Sarge to which these patches could be applied (as it is only in Sid). Just a question I had. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http:

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: My comments are about the same as on IRC: - Disk space is cheap, bandwi

Requesting NMU for toshutils

2006-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
PROTECTED] I will not get the email right away, but I will eventually, as Sean Finney has graciously agreed to collect my emails for me until I get Internet access at home (thanks Sean). Regards, -Roberto Sanchez __ LLama Gratis a

Re: CVS java-package/lib

2005-01-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
echo " done." else echo " <<< large user explaination here >>> " read fi } Unfortunately, when the last kernel-source-2.6.8 update went into Sarge a couple of weeks ago, I finally got around to rebuilding my kernel without

Sound card issues [WAS: Re: Hello!]

2006-06-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
KlarsDev wrote: Hi, i have this problem: I have debian 3.1 sarge installed on my PC, but i encounter some problems with my sound device. My sound card is C-media(external) it works ok, but i have a 5.1 EBODA sound system and i don`t know how to make it work with debian. I tried with alsa but

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Lars Wirzenius wrote: su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti: * Package name: openwatcom Description : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code What does it mean for a compiler to produce portable code? Perhaps it is a Java compiler in disguise

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 03, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From DFSG FAQ Draft ( http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html ): This document mostly represents the opinion of the "DFSG revisionists", so it's hardly a surprise that supports the "we decide what is non-free" school of

Re: Mail rejection on size

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 00:24, Don Armstrong wrote: At least for the BTS, those messages are not discarded; they're just separated out and processing on them is halted. Blars spends a lot of time looking at "borderline" messages to put back in non-spam into the queue, and catche

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Yes. But I prefer verifying that I can login again after each ssh > > restart. So, I want to do that _only_ if I explicitly do it. (Others may > > disagree.) > > I disagree ;-) The way it is

Question about packages held from Sarge

2005-01-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
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Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
r to test rebooting first at low-demand times. Or if you plan on being off-site for an extended period of time. But, it should still be the administrator's decision as to exactly when that time is best. -Roberto -- Roberto Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: XFS entering kernel 2.4 tree - Should the installer include support?

2003-12-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joey Hess wrote: Gunnar Wolf wrote: I am writing to -devel and not to -boot as I think this should be visible for most developers, as it can have a huge impact in our systems. I was reading [1] today that XFS is entering the 2.4 kernel tree - Being we still reasonably far from having Sarge releasab