On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:01:56PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > Well, there's no source for the xfree86_4.3.0-0pre1v3.1 hurd-i386 binary > packages on gnuab, that's why I never tried to build them. However, > there are source package files for the 0pre1v5+rmh.1 GNU/k*BSD packages > and the ChangeLog suggests that they include the GNU/Hurd fixes as well: > > Changes: > xfree86 (4.3.0-0pre1v5+rmh.1) unreleased; urgency=low > . > * Misc fixes for GNU and GNU/k*BSD. > > Robert, are all the fixes for GNU/Hurd you are aware of in that source > package?
Yes. Except the nroff/troff system crash which is actualy a bug in Mach, the Hurd, or some part of Glibc. > It boils down to installing the build-essential package, the > Build-Depends of the xfree86 source package and then running > 'dpkg-buildpackage -B -us -uc'. If that yields a good build, I can sign > the resulting .changes file and we can upload them to ftp.gnuab.org. The signature check in gnuab is not gratuitous. Do you understand the implications of signing a binary you have recieved unsigned from the net, without any real verification of the authorship of that binary? I only find reasonable re-signing a binary made by a trusted developer like Marco if it is already signed with his key and there is a trust path to it from the debian keyring. Every kiddie around can forge some SMTP headers and pretend to be Marco. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
