Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?
Hello Miguel, I would have prefered to know you taking some "tapas" in Madrid, oh welll.. On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:17:56AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > Hello guys, > > I just got forwarded a few messages from a discussion that is going > on at the Debian lists, let me reply: > > First of all, this fragment --which started the whole debate-- is > completely wrong: > > > I assisted today to a conference by Miguel de Icaza here in Madrid, > > it seems he is running a new business namde Helixcode > > (http://www.helixcode.com) which will be working for GNOME. In the > > conference he said that the GNOME developers do not want to make debian > > packages because "they are too difficult". But he also did not understand > > why distributions carry out old version of GNOME. > > What I said was that Helix could not make GNOME packages for Debian > for the "Helix GNOME Preview Release 1", not that the GNOME developers > did not want to make them. I disagree. The fragment is not "completely wrong", however, I read it now and find a *big* mistake. Where I said GNOME developers I should have said "HELIX developers" > > I am going to repeat because it seems Javier did not understand even > when I spoke in spanish: > > Helix Code could not produce Debian packages for Helix GNOME Preview 1 > because it was too hard to get them on time. > > The GNOME project is a completely different entity. > > GNOME is the project to bring new technologies to Unix > > Helix Code is the company that is writing GNOME-based productivity > applications for GNOME, and happens to have a binary distribution of > GNOME for various GNU/Linux distributions. > > Helix Code is the one that could not produce the Debian packages on > time. > > The GNOME project does not produce binaries. Not for Debian, not > for Red Hat, not for anything else. From time to time we get .spec > files and debian/ directories, but we do not maintain them, nor do > we keep track of them. I'm sorry to disagree with you, the GNOME project *does* distribute binaries (and packages too), looking in http://www.gnome.org/start/ will give you pointers to packages for Caldera, RedHat and SuSE distributed from the GNOME site (ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest). The Debian packages, however, are *not* found in the GNOME ftp site. Why aren't they included and mirrored? > > More: > I have to point out a few things: > > 1. Debian directories exist for all packages that the Debian > maintainers have requested to maintain in the GNOME CVS. > > 2. I do not have anything to do with those packages. > > 3. My comment on Debian packages that I made in the Spain conference > was that Helix did not release in the "Helix GNOME Preview 1" > GNOME packages for Debian because it was too hard for us to make > them. We did not have the resources to attack the problem, > although that was one of the original plans. > > If you want to help the Helix hackers to get Helix GNOME packages for > Debian, then subscribe to the spidermonkey mailing list at Helix Code, > and offer your help to our developers. > > Our developers (the Helix developers) were working around the clock > (Jacob even spent one day 56 hours awake) to get Helix GNOME out. And > yes, supporting Debian for preview 1 would have just delayed Preview 1 > a few weeks for no good reason. In the future, there will be time to > handle Debian. > > I do not know why you guys did not contact me directly if you had any > doubts. I brought this thing first in Debian lists since I thought some discussion should be needed first, not just by discussing the issue of GNOME/HELIX but also whether if our package system was not docummented enough for others to make packages for Debian. That's why the mail was not sent to HELIX. I also made the mistake to CC: this to a public list, when it should be kept private. It was not my intention to disregard the efforts made by GNOME and HELIX in order to make good productivity tools available. However I felt that GNOME/HELIX disregard the effort made by Debian in the comments people make and the actions they take. Take for example the Linux Journal's article signed by you et al, in issue 70 (I read it yesterday in the spanish translation issue 5), also available at http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754.html. Specifically the "popup" Resources (http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754s1.html) many distributions are mentioned but... where is Debian? My point was that maybe Debian is not getting enough attention from GNOME and other related projects (like HELIX) and that maybe we had a public-relations problem. This thread might not have helped too much :) It is my opinion that GNOME and Debian should work more closely together, for this reason was this discussion started, not to drive a flame war or to pun anybody. It was just circumstances that your conference started t
Re: Information to at talk about Debian
Maybe you could use some of the info in one of my articles on Debian 2.1 (try http://www.openresources.com), there are pointers there to some "unofficial" info. Regards Javi On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > I'm going to promote Debian on some meetings at the local LUG > (www.sslug.dk). I would like to bring on some statistic about Debian > but I wonder how I find the canonical numbers of developers and > packages? > > Is there som standard material for using on a booth at a LinuxShow or > is it all redone for every event? > -- > Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator på > den eneste modererede gruppe i dk.*, so there. > - citat RockBear > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: better /etc/init.d/network
Well, I think your program goes in the right direction. However I
feel it should be more user-friendly regarding two things:
a) presenting the user a nice interface (not just read in console)
b) going through user input and checking errors.
I don't have time to help you with a) but I can surely help with a).
My proposal (and attached diff) is you use 'dialog' as an interface when
available. That way all config apps have the same "feel", and also, when in
X the more nice gdialog is used (if available).
Feel free to use my patch as you will. I have also changed the code
enough so I could make these changes.
Regards
Javi
--- net Sun May 16 20:47:45 1999
+++ net.dialog Tue May 18 03:40:11 1999
@@ -20,6 +20,21 @@
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+# This sets up the DIALOG variable in order to show information
+# and receive input in a more user-friendly way, or at least show-off.
+# Only used when configuring the devices.
+# Jfs - mar may 18 03:39:51 CEST 1999
+GDIALOG="/usr/bin/gdialog"
+DIALOG="/usr/bin/dialog"
+if [ -x $GDIALOG ]; then
+ DIALOG=$GDIALOG
+fi
+if [ ! -x $DIALOG ]; then
+ DIALOG=""
+fi
+
+
+
function usage() {
local p=${0##*/}
echo "Usage: $p [start|stop|restart|status [interfaces...]]"
@@ -187,17 +202,28 @@
}
function ask_var() {
+# More error checking should be done in order to get useful
+# values (maybe when this script becomes a C program?)
local prompt="$1" && shift
local varname="$1" && shift
local default="${!varname}"
local default="${default:-$3}"
-echo -ne "$prompt [$default]: "; read val
-case "$val" in
+if [ -z $DIALOG ]; then
+ echo -ne "$prompt [$default]: "; read val
+else
+# If DIALOG is available it will show it in a more
+# user-friendly way
+ local tmp=`tempfile`
+ $DIALOG --inputbox "$prompt" 10 30 2>$tmp
+ val=`cat $tmp`
+ rm $tmp
+fi
+ case "$val" in
-|NONE) val="" ;;
"") val="$default" ;;
-esac
-eval "$varname"="$val"
+ esac
+ eval "$varname"="$val"
}
function config_interface() {
@@ -272,29 +298,33 @@
CONFIG="${CONFIG:-$INTERFACE}"
CONFIG="/etc/network/${CONFIG##*/}"
+STRING=""
+STRING="\nINTERFACE=$INTERFACE\n"
+STRING="${STRING}IPADDR=$IPADDR\n"
+if [ "$NETWORK" ]; then
+ STRING="${STRING}NETWORK=$NETWORK\n"
+ STRING="${STRING}NETMASK=$NETMASK\n"
+ STRING="${STRING}BROADCAST=$BROADCAST\n"
+elif [ "$POINTOPOINT" ]; then
+ STRING="${STRING}POINTOPOINT=$POINTOPOINT\n"
+fi
+if [ "$GATEWAY" ]; then
+ STRING="${STRING}GATEWAY=$GATEWAY\n"
+fi
+if [ "$ARGS" ]; then
+ STRING="${STRING}ARGS=\"$ARGS\"\n"
+fi
+if [ "$NOAUTO" ]; then
+ STRING="${STRING}NOAUTO=true\n"
+fi
+if [ -z $DIALOG ]; then
{
- echo
- echo "INTERFACE=$INTERFACE"
- echo "IPADDR=$IPADDR"
- if [ "$NETWORK" ]; then
- echo "NETWORK=$NETWORK"
- echo "NETMASK=$NETMASK"
- echo "BROADCAST=$BROADCAST"
- elif [ "$POINTOPOINT" ]; then
- echo "POINTOPOINT=$POINTOPOINT"
- fi
- if [ "$GATEWAY" ]; then
- echo "GATEWAY=$GATEWAY"
- fi
- if [ "$ARGS" ]; then
- echo "ARGS=\"$ARGS\""
- fi
- if [ "$NOAUTO" ]; then
- echo "NOAUTO=true"
- fi
- echo
-}
-echo -n "Write file $CONFIG (y/N)? "; read x
+ echo -e $STRING
+ echo -n "Write file $CONFIG (y/N)? "; read x
+ }
+else
+ $DIALOG --yesno "$STRING\nSave file $CONFIG?" 20 40 && x="y"
+fi
if [ ! "$x" -o "$x" != "y" ]; then
echo "Configuration not saved"
return
Re: Call for mascot! :-)
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > > I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions: > > > > 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC) > > 2. Octopus (my own suggestion) > > 3. Monkey > > 4. Ant > > 5. Bee > > > > Yes, that you are.. > > I say we should go for a nice feline, perhaps a tiger cub? > > Then again, I'm quite insane.. <=:] > > Zephaniah E. Hull. OK. I was thinking of this a lot the night after my exam (a nice way to forget I have one ;) .. and I think Debian "mascot" should in some way try to capture some of its essence. I feel some of the "essence" in keywords of Debian might be: volunteers, open source, collaborative work, freedom. I choose freedom, it's one that summarises it all, and trying to find an animal that, universally, would give the impression of freedom, I limited the choice to two bird species: - eagles, - hawks I like the dragon idea but I feel the "dragon" symbol is not all that universal, and many cultures tend to associate dragons with evil, as a matter of fact when culture talks about dragons (in a non-D&D world ;) there's always a hero that goes out to kill it for its evil deeds. Even though I'm a Dragonlance/D&D/Ars Magica fan, I would not choose the dragon because it's symbolism is somewhat limited... I *would* choose any of the above because I feel they capture Debian's spirit better. Picture a soaring royal eagle, for example, flying wild in a blue sky, there's nothing which gives a bigger sensation of freedom. And an eagle is menacing, and powerful, which Debian also is. So that's my proposal, sorry for being so "mystical", I'm in exam days you know >:) Javi
Re: seeking new maintainer: lilo
I do not feel confident enough to take upon lilo, I just wanted to say that I was working (sorry Enrique for not being able to finish it for slink) in a LILO installation to be included in boot-floppies and work also standalone, if anyone is working in it feel free to contact me so we could finish it sooner. However, if nobody stands up to take it, I will. Javi On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:35:31AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hello, > > who would liek to take the lilo package over? > > There are a few pending bugs, most of the dealing with the lack of an > intelligent install script (which should be included in the bootfloppies, > too). > > Greetings > Bernd > -- > (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ > o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE > (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Article introducing Slink
Sorry to reply to myself... I just wanted to note that the article is incomplete, and translated from the original (also incomplete ;) in spanish. I will try to finish it more and translate it tomorrow.. I have added to it: - information on apt's future frontend (I do not know if Havoc Pennington wants the article to mention gnome-apt or not) - information on the X reorganization - goals resumed. Good night (I'm going to sleep... I have an exam tomorrow) Javi
Article introducing Slink
I'm currently writting an article for an online magazine based
on free software proyects called OpenResources (www.openresources.com)
who where interested in having a preview of what Slink will offer.
However, I'm at a loss to grasp all the differences between
Hamm and Slink, and would not like to give false impressions or leave
out information.
This is the reason for the crosspost to debian-press. As of
currently Debian has not made any announcements of what Debian 2.1 ('slink')
will
bring other than more software... ;) I'm aware that we had some project
goals for slink (which are not publicly known), and maybe we should made
a public statement of
1.- Why Debian slink is going to release later than expected
2.- What Debian slink will bring (i.e. what proyect goals have
been fulfilled)
AFAIK Nils or Joey were going to write such a thing, but had not had
time yet, so...
I'm sending attached my article on Debian slink as it is, since the
online magazine has a "free source" license for all articles feel free
to make use of anything that feels useful.
I would also appreciate any comments and suggestions (flames to
/dev/null please)
Javi
Debian 2.1 'slink'
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
28 enero 1999
Debian 2.1 (codename _s_l_i_n_k) will be release beginning 1999, becoming
one of the distributions with more programs in the world of
GNU/Linux.
__
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Slink
2. The size of Debian
3. Goals of Debian 2.1
4. Things to point out in Debian 2.1
5. How to get Debian
__
11.. IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn ttoo SSlliinnkk
Debian, the proyect founded by the Free Software Foundation
, and which currently has its own entity, is a
distribution (which has already been introduced in OperResources) that
currently stands amongst the three more important GNU/Linux
distributions.
Although the previous stable release of Debian saw the light in June
last year, the developers that maintain the distribution set
themselves as a goal the release of the next version of Debian by the
end of the year. However, this has not happened due to some problems
with bug fixes of packages that make up the distribution, and to the
fact that, in the same months, Debian maintainers have voted their
first Consitution , and
elect a new Project Leader , that will
continue forward after Ian Murdock leaves that position.
The _f_r_e_e_z_e stage the distribution suffers, before releasing a new
stable version, has continued up until February 1999. Currently
(January 1999) some problems with the installation disks are being
worked upon, as well as some bugs with some of the packages.
22.. TThhee ssiizzee ooff DDeebbiiaann
Debian is a _h_u_g_e proyect, few (amongst them the developing of the
Linux kernel) can say that they count with equal or more volunteer
developers (over 400), and, of course, the number of programs the
distribution offers is enourmous.
That is one of the fundamental advantages that Debian 2.1 will offer
with respect to its previous release, 2.0, the number of supported
packages has grown to over 1500. Of course, the bugs found in the
packages that made part of the distributin have been solved, also
including changes in the upstreams sources of programs.
The priority of Debian is not, as it would seem, to make programs, but
rather to offer programs available in the GNU/Linux world making their
installation and configuring as easiest as possible to the Debian
user. The work of a Debian maintainer is to make these packages and
support them, fixing bugs that might be found, either notifying the
upstream maintainer or fixing them himself.
Thus slink includes a great number of programs in many areas: word
processing applications, graphic packages, system administration,
device handling, games...
To give an example of Debian's growth one might take the review made
by Lars Wirzenius. Taking all packages of the _m_a_i_n section in Debian,
counting the size and number of lines in files with 'c' or 'h'
extension (that belong to source code and headers of C programs), you
might get the following results:
lynes bytes packages
hamm37.41M 865.713M 1116
slink 70.6M1144.6M1602
Other similar reviews can be found at:
¿Misuse of Debian name and logo?
I would like to draw your attention towards www.debian-cd.com, it's a vendor that distributes Debian Cd's, also providing some nice logos for use as label. I have no problem with these save... 1.- The domain name includes 'Debian' is this OK for the project? I recall a problem with a teenager registering debian.com, when Bruce was Project Leader... 2.- The redistribution of the logo complies with our own guidelines? (I dare to ask what the current status of our logo license is currently...) Best regards Javi
Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > vrwave23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124] (Javier > Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > xswallow 25932 Xswallow should be in contrib [55] (Javier > Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) OK. These two are mine, sorry for not answering before. - vrwave Vrwave should go into non-free, because the license does not permit commercial use without prior consent of IICM. This is a pity, since it means there will not be a VRML browser for slink in main. A real pity. This is my fault, I should have had more time to fix this (move it into non-free) with a new upload, but I don't know how to do this? File a bug against ftp.debian.org? Anyhow, there is another point here I would like to be cleared. Bug #23436 states it should go into contrib because it depends on jdk1.1 I am not suscribed to debian-java (nor have time to read it), but I think it is a pity that ALL java software (even *real* free ones) should go into contrib just because there is not of now a java virtual machine that will really work. This is not to say that I do not appreciate developer's efforts on guavac, kaffe, or similar software. - xswallow It depends on netscape since it is a plugin for it, I will try it with mozilla though, if it works I might rename the depends to to Depends: netscape | mozilla. If not it could be moved onto contrib. This is ok for main? Regards Javi
Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?
As a matter of fact it just happened with our IDE drives after upgrading
to 2.0.34, since we had read this, we downgraded to 2.0.33 and it works with no
erros now. I
don't intent to say that this is an important bug, but maybe it should be
looked at.
Regards
Javi
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:40:34AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> OK, I was wrong , its happening now with 2.0.33 too. However, its
> happening to all three ide drives. I'd better figure it out fast
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Christian Meder wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> > > A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drives):
> > >
> > > Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> > > SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {
> > > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6766956, sector=211869
> > > Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
> > > 211869
> >
> > This looks rather like a dying harddisk. I saw it some time ago too ;-)
>
> John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
>
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Re: annual update of Maintainer Contacts
While you're at it you might change a minor bug in the page + FAQ Santiago Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Susan G. Kleinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ needs '>' right? Saludos Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Offering packages
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:09:23PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: > I'm offering most of my packages. I will still maintain those of them, (...) > > The list of offered packages: > > comm/casio - Casio diary backup utility () I will take this one (comm/casio), if nobody minds, since I bought one two years ago and haven't backuped it yet :^) And I will surely try it for the Summer. BTW it's a great help (no need to spend 100$ for sw and hw to do this when you have the proper packages). Thanks to the maintainer and developers. Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools
I han't checked.. my mistake :) I'll take a look at it (and grab the Deb package :) As for Libjava and libC++ y don't remember their correct names, but they are libraries in java and C++ for creating VRML apps. Their real names aren't those, I might have confused you a bit.. BTW what is BMRT?? Javi On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 02:32:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Moonlight Creator is already available. I'm the maintainer (well, > actually, I haven't uploaded anything yet, but Joey made the initial > releases). I'm working on 0.5.3 right now... I expect to upload it over the > weekend (next weekend at most), I have been working on other packages, and I > haven't had the change to fix a few things with 0.5.3... > > What exactly are libJava and libC++? Those have pretty generic names if they > are modelers or VRML tools... > > wouldn't you be interested in packaging BMRT? > > Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any Wabi users in the group?
I installed Wabi in my work environment about a year ago. I used directly the .tar.gz and works fine after some tuning on my behalf. Of course, I moved all the /opt/ stuff to /usr/local, symlink opt so I wouldn't find any problems. We're also using PageMaker 5.0 to edit our monthly bulletin (we are the Student's Representative's Association BTW, look at http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es). Alas, it does some strange things (which one gets used to after a time), like not showing the pagmaker icons... If you want a "tree" output (or ls -R) to know how I installed, ask for it :) Regards Javi On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:45:30PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I just purchased my first piece of "non-free" software for Linux. I need > to be able to run PageMaker on my Debian machine so I can stop cursing my > partner's '95 machine ;-) > > It comes in both .rpm and .tgz although the tarball seems to be > unsupported. > > I'm curious to know if anyone else has installed this product, and mostly, > if I use alien to convert the package to .deb, will it install and work? > > Any help is appreciated, > > Dwarf > -- > _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 > > _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intent to package doc-debian-es
Hi everyone, I have translated today the New Maintainer HOWTO to Spanish and am willing to translate some other important debian documentation to Spanish making it, thus, more accesible to spanish developers. I intend to package it as doc-debian-es. Just a thought: it might be not that polished and now it would only contain that HOWTO (I will translate Debian FAQ, Debian Policy ... also) but I would like it to go into hamm/frozen. It is only a package with sgml+ps+txt+html in it so even if it is a new package it won't compromise nothing serious. Any thoughts? Could it be considered? Saludos Javi pgpUJIriiql84.pgp Description: PGP signature
dpkb-buildpackage errors
Anybody knows why dpkg-buildpackage jumps with a:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/hello/hello-1.3# dpkg-buildpackage
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("root") at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line
16.
parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file debian/substvars:
No existe el
fichero o el directorio
dpkg-buildpackage: cannot determine name of current package
I may have missed some policy modifications, but I am surprised to see
that
hello (hamm's) doesn't work with dpkg-dev.
It seems dpkb-buildpacakge tries to find debian/substvars and it dies
when
it doesn't, I though this file was optional.
Suggestions? Comments??
Javi
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Re: Intent to package Xswallow
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:43:00PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > I assume the point is that it will only execute applications listed in > /etc/mailcap, which is fine. > > He didn't provide a URL, so I can't check.. > > Jules > > Sorry, I forgot. Im putting up a checksite at ftp://dat.etsit.upm.es/pub/WWW/packages/Xswallow the original site is: http://skynet.csnl.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/Xswallow.html There you go! It doesn't touch /etc/mailcap (although it could be modified to do so), as it provides its own mime/types-->application configuration file. Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intent to package Xswallow
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:22:42PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a writes: > This sounds distressingly like a serious security hole - unless it refuses > requests resembling "xterm -e foo". It's not quite as bad as "xhost +", > I'll admit, but it does sound like a major risk nevertheless. > > > I have tried it with Netscape 3.0 and 4.0b5 (not with Mozilla yet :( ) > > it can be found as a RedHat package so I intend to use this first for the > > first release. BTW it is GPL'd. > > Martin As a matter of fact I will only launch applications associated with /etc/mime.types and configured in an installed file (xswallow.conf en /usr/lib/netscape). So it *may* be a security hole, but just if you allow it as many other things :) Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
