Hello all, I have been lurking on the Mandrake lists for quite some time
(since I switched over from RedHat to Mandrake), and I've finally gotten
around
to documenting some of the problems (bugs) in some of the packages. Here
it
goes:
o kernel-2.2.14
SaveHeaders and
install -m 644 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-autoconf.h autoconf.h
install -m 644 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-version.h version.h
install -m 644 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-modversions.h modversions.h
install the `real' headers as *-up or *-smp, etc. OSS greps for these
headers
and the compatibility test fails. It should really grep that header and
ANY
INCLUDED HEADERS. You could also grep autoconf*.h for example. Should
someone
write to OSS about this?
o rescue.img
Where did the rescue disk go? What happens if I can't boot my linux
system? Are
there any instructions on how to build a custom rescue disk?
o ncurses-5.0
Symlinks in /lib are still wrong. This bug has persisted since the first
release
of ncurses-5.0, and maybe others. Either don't install the ncurses libs
in
/lib (I think this is *not* necessary), or do the ln -sf the right way.
There
are also patches to ncurses-5.0 that come out every so often, is it
planned
to keep up to date on these patches, or just to stick with the release
version?
o mandrake_desk, kdebase
Where did the high-color KDE icons go? I thought they were cool, are
there
plans on including them again? If not, where can I get them?
o wine
After installing the package, it says:
Your old /etc/wine.conf is saved as /etc/wine.conf.sav
I have installed a new /etc/wine.conf, please upgarde it
It doesn't save wine.conf as wine.conf.sav, and anyway, the best way
would be to
install it as wine.conf.rpmorig and keep the user's config file, because
wine is
something that seems to depend a lot of the users setup and whether they
have
Win 95, 98, or NT. `upgrade' is misspelled as 'upgarde', too.
o libc-5.3.12
This is an old version, I realize it contains many patches, but are
there any
plans to upgrade to 5.4.46 or whatever the latest version is? I suppose
this
is only for backwards compatibility anyway. Are there any packages that
rely
on libc and how can I check this?
o msec
/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/diff_check.sh: line 13: syntax error in
conditional
expression
/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/diff_check.sh: line 13: syntax error near
unexpected
token `;'
/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/diff_check.sh: line 13: `if [[
${CHECK_SECURITY} ==
no ]; then'
This is my latest error. I don't see any point on releasing this package
so
early when it's not even usuable at this point.
o rpmtools
gendepslist: cannot open file test
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Seems like it should handle this more gracefully...
I have seen your big bug database, but as I've said, some of the bugs
(like
the ncurses bug) have not been fixed to this day, so maybe someone isn't
reading it, so I though I'd post here, since these are cooker bugs and
not
release bugs anyway.
--
Sincerely,
David Walluck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
