Re: PR 44498 should probably be closed

2024-08-05 Thread J Pipkin
On 8/5/24 00:14, Mouse wrote: I think it would make more sense to reclassify it as a PR against pax rather than a PR against tar. (Especially if pax exhibits a similar insistence on getcwd() working even when run as pax. I don't know whether it does; I don't run anything recent enough to useful

PR 44498 should probably be closed

2024-08-04 Thread J Pipkin
Hello, PR 44498 is regarding tar(1)'s dependence on getcwd(3). This only exists when /bin/pax is called as "tar", which is only true of /bin/tar when building with MKBSDTAR set to "no" in order to not use bsdtar from libarchive. The default setting of MKBSDTAR has been "yes" since 2019: -- re

PR 39254 can be closed

2024-08-04 Thread J Pipkin
Hello, PR 39254, regarding the inability to read a single key from from a hash DB with db(1), appears to've been resolved at some point; this does not replicate on -current, either with or without the NULL byte: -- $ db -w -C -N hash test.db key1 val1 Added key `key1' $ db -N hash test.db key1

PR 57069 should not be open

2024-07-31 Thread J Pipkin
Hello, I noticed that the functionality requested in PR 57069, which is for date(1) to support -f to define the input format, already exists; according to "cvs log", it has existed for about as long as the PR: -- revision 1.63 date: 2022-10-22 15:11:43 -0500;  author: christos;  state: Exp; li

fix for PR 56138

2024-07-29 Thread J Pipkin
Hello, Here is a fix for PR 56138, in which it is observed that chpass(1) and friends should not allow breaking the passwd databases by editing the username. The problem: -- # grep 1005 /etc/passwd testuser:*:1005:0:,,,:/home/testuser:/bin/sh # chpass testuser # grep 1005 /etc/passwd testus

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Desmume on 64-bit - optimization flag

2013-01-23 Thread J Pipkin
On 2013-01-23 09:01, Matteo Bernardini wrote: Hi J, I tried to adapt the line to take in account Eric's advices SLKCFLAGS=${SLKCFLAGS:--O2} LIBDIRSUFFIX="" [ "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64" ] && [ ! "$(echo $PATH | grep ^/usr/bin/32)" ] && SLKCFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS -fPIC" LIBDIRSUFFIX="64" [ "$ARCH" = "i

[newbie] Registered Linux User No.293302

2003-10-05 Thread M J Pipkin
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