On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:50, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > As for jackd with capabilities, I had to make it a compile-time option.
>
> Why? Does it need the mutli-media kernel, or is there some other issue?
It's the same, except in the capabilities version, there is an extra
script, jackstart, which has to be suid root. I think it's pretty
harmless without the capabilities kernel, but I'm not an expert. WITH
the capabilities kernel, it is decidedly unsafe.
> How about building it parallel, so that a build of the srpm builds it
> once without capabilities, once with, and have the two packages obsolete
> each other etc so that you can swap between them with:
>
> # urpmi jackit
> or
> # urpmi jackit-capabilities
That would be great if jack was in contribs. But since it's in main, I
don't think they want any suid scripts at all. Not sure about that
though.
> > Also, I've almost finished ardour, only to learn that 'the author'
> > doesn't want binary copies distributed, because he's afraid users will
> > pester him and/or us about bugs/limitations which he already know
> > about.
>
> If he does not want users to use his software, he should not make it
> available. Users should be aware that the first place they file bugs is
> with their distro.
Many people are 'respecting' his unpublished wishes (Planet CCRMA,
debian), and others aren't (connetiva has an rpm), and some get around
it (gentoo).
> But that is ridiculous. What if you *happen* to get a totally wasted
> copy from cvs? It is better to have a binary package that is known to at
> least run.
You're preaching to the choir here Buchan. :-)
> 1)See if we can campaing Mandrakesoft to assist getting Danny's kernel
> into contrib
> 2)build 2 versions of jackit in the srpm
> 3)Ignore the ardour author's wishes, but offer to handle bug reports
> from Mandrake users (by directing them to bugzilla), and provide binaries.
This I really like. The only real problem is having a suid script in
main. Maybe we can have jackit in main and jackit-capabilities in
contribs? I know it's messy though.
Thanks for your help/support Buchan.
Austin
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Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
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