Re: New Maintainer for MC Project

2005-06-08 Thread Fudoki Wilkinson
Pavel, Below is your note posted today. Below that the full text of the letter, and response, to which you refer, with key sections highlighted and numbered. Programmers can read - I'll let them draw their own conclusions. A conversation is proposed regarding the project, the Midnight

Fwd: New Maintainer for MC Project

2005-06-08 Thread Fudoki Wilkinson
Part 2 of 2 Original Message Subject: Re: A new day for MC? Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:01:32 -0400 From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fudoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello! On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:01 -0400, Fudoki wrote: Dear Pavel, I

Re: New Maintainer for MC Project

2005-06-08 Thread Mike V. Gorchak
Fudoki Wilkinson ! Hey, buddy, calmdown and move your ass away from this list, don't botherMC developers. With all your postings here Ican see that your behavior like a hysteric woman, which do not want to hear that ppl talking to her. Iloathe toppl which can't understand that others says

Re: [patch] avoiding casts of function pointers

2005-06-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:12:59PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote: This patch fixes the gcc warning about incompatible pointer types in widget.c. I is much more complicated than Jindrich's patch, but in return it is fully ISO C compliant. :)

RE: File exists: duplicate key accel; and a feature request

2005-06-08 Thread David Martin
Beware of this, please. If you change it now you may break translations. --- On Wed 06/08, wwp < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: wwp [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mc@gnome.org Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:03:23 +0200 Subject: File exists: duplicate key accel; and a feature request Hi there!I've

Announcement of mc-4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Pavel Shirshov (pchel)
Hello MC, I've created a new cvs tag MC_4_6_1_pre4 and deleted MC_4_6_1_PRE5A since it had a wrong version nunmber. I've created a new tarball based on MC_4_6_1_pre4 - it can be found here: http://pavelsh.pp.ru/mc/ Now, we need to inform all interested parties (translators, maintainers and news

FW: RE: Announcement of mc-4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread David Martin
Ooops, sorry for the previous mail... I made a mess.. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ---BeginMessage--- I recently localized a device numbers label which was left in src/info.c. Is it worth applying

Re: Announcement of mc-4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 13:24, Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote: I've created a new cvs tag MC_4_6_1_pre4 and deleted MC_4_6_1_PRE5A since it had a wrong version nunmber. I've created a new tarball based on MC_4_6_1_pre4 - it can be found here: http://pavelsh.pp.ru/mc/ Now, we need to inform

RE: New Maintainer for MC Project

2005-06-08 Thread Ryan Weaver
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fudoki WilkinsonSent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:42 PMTo: MC Devel ListSubject: Re: New Maintainer for MC Project From: Fudoki Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Jun 8, 2005 12:32 AMSubject: Re: New

cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
moin, for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more, making the whole thing sort of pointless. the attached patch makes it useful for me. comments? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: moin, for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more, making the whole thing sort of pointless. the attached patch makes it useful for me. comments? cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more, making the whole thing sort of pointless. the attached patch makes it useful for me.

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jakub, Oswald, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more, making the whole thing sort of pointless. cons.saver should not be setuid root, it

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Oswald, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:49, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: yes, i'm aware of this. anyway, we have no portable (even across linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than root. I'd rather have the downstream packagers fixing the device permissions and the

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:13:00PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:03, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: and punish the upstream users, including ourselves? interesting. This issue can be easily fixed with package builds. suppose i prefer configure make stow ...

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:23:42PM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: --- Makefile.am.orig2005-06-08 16:30:58.0 +0200 +++ Makefile.am 2005-06-08 16:29:13.0 +0200 @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ if USE_EDIT

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Koblinger Egmont
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: we have no portable (even across linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than root. How about not creating a user or group, but observing the installed system? IMHO if all the vcsa devices are owned

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: we have no portable (even across linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than root. How about not creating a user or group, but

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:05PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: suppose i prefer configure make stow ... Patch is your friend. Or just chown and chmod afterwards. you needn't to educate _me_. now that i identified the problem

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Koblinger Egmont
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:06:03PM +0200, Tomasz Koczko wrote: BTW: in case Linux now I don' see cons.saver usage. $ strace -o out mc; grep cons.saver out with few times ctrl-o during strace show nothing (?). Q: is in case Linux cons.saver is still neccessary ? Yes. In case mc's

Re: Announcement of mc-4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Tomasz Koczko
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote: Hello MC, I've created a new cvs tag MC_4_6_1_pre4 and deleted MC_4_6_1_PRE5A since it had a wrong version nunmber. I've created a new tarball based on MC_4_6_1_pre4 - it can be found here: http://pavelsh.pp.ru/mc/ Now, we need to inform all

Re: cons.saver not suid root

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jakub, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote: cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be setuid to whatever user owns /dev/vcsa* devices. Ideally there is a vcsa user that just owns these devices and cons.saver. Could you maybe go into the details if and if how a

Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread David Martin
I've just tweaked it to latest CVS 4.6.1-pre4 ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! diff -ur /home2/dmartin/cvs/mc/po/es.po ./mc/po/es.po --- /home2/dmartin/cvs/mc/po/es.po 2005-06-08 22:01:37.395194320 +0200

RE: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread David Martin
Ooops, the code in info.c is there, but it's disabled with an if 0 :)) ... in such case ... the localization is slightly useless ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi David, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:39, David Martin wrote: Ooops, the code in info.c is there, but it's disabled with an if 0 :)) Roland has reenabled that code in HEAD. The translation can thus be committed to HEAD. Not sure if we should enable this for PRE at this point. Leonard. -- mount

RE: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi David, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:39, David Martin wrote: ... in such case ... the localization is slightly useless Looking at the info panel I doubt if we actually *want* localization in that view. Especially if we are going to support large device numbers we can't use large strings very

RE: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:24, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Looking at the info panel I doubt if we actually *want* localization in that view. Especially if we are going to support large device numbers we can't use large strings very well, especially on an 80 char wide screen. We'll

Re: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread Roland Illig
David Martin wrote: I've just tweaked it to latest CVS 4.6.1-pre4 Please just commit it to HEAD. Roland ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Localize dev numbers label for 4.6.1-pre4

2005-06-08 Thread David Martin
Done. It's been there for a couple of weeks. Thanks. David --- On Wed 06/08, Roland Illig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Roland Illig [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mc-devel@gnome.org Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:53:06 +0200 Subject: Re: Localize dev numbers label