At 21:19 Uhr -0400 01.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >In a discussion on #fink about the passwd problem, it was suggested that >we put an announcement about the problem in the News section on Fink's >homepage. Appended below is a diff file for the source of that page, >which would contain the announcement. Any suggestions about the wording, >or about whether this is a good idea, would be welcome.
I'd phrase it differently, more like this: ------- <p>2002-05-01: All Fink users are urged to update their <i>passwd</i> package to version 20020329 or newer. Older versions of the <i>passwd</i> package are affected by a bug that could lead to the loss of all data on your hard disk if you remove system users created by Fink manually from the system via the System Preferences (removing them via the NetInfo tool is safe). You can check the version of your passwd package by entering <i>dpkg -s passwd</i>. If your version is oudated, you can update to the current one in two ways: <ul> <li>Via the binary distribution. First make sure you have the latest list of packages available: <i>sudo apt-get update</i>. Then you can perform the actual update: <i>sudo apt-get install passwd</i>. <li>Via the source distribution. First make sure you have the latest set of package descriptions: <i>fink selfupdate-cvs</i>. Then, update the passwd package: <i>fink update passwd</i> </ul> <p>See <a href="faq/usage-general.php#passwd">Fink's FAQ, question 6.3,</a> for more information about the passwd package.</p> ------- This way they immediatly know which versions of passwd are affected, how the bug is triggered, how they can learn their version, how they can update it via the bin dist, and how they can update it via the source dist. Now to quote Dave: "Any suggestions about the wording, or about whether this is a good idea, would be welcome." :-) Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
