[ITP] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the gd package: * http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (Homepage) * http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/ (Download location) My goal is to contribute the gnuplot package * http://gnuplot.info/ which uses the gd library. Ciao Volker -- Here are the

RE: [ITP] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Gareth Pearce
If a vote for gd is a vote towards gnuplot, you have my vote. I would like to contribute and maintain the gd package: * http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (Homepage) * http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/ (Download location) My goal is to contribute the gnuplot package *

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? root:S-1-5-32-544:0: The question is then, should it *also* generate an administrators entry

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? root:S-1-5-32-544:0: The question is then, should it *also* generate an administrators entry

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:56 AM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This indeterminacy might cause headaches during the transition period, it's hard to foresee all ramifications. I'm running my system for at least a year with two group

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:37:33AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 10:56 AM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: It autodetects if it is privileged and, if so, setgid(544) setuid(18) to normalize its environment

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:25:21AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? root:S-1-5-32-544:0:

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:34:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and removes these Sorry, it's S-1-1-0. S-1-0-0 is the NULL SID. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:25:21AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default?

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:33 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:37:33AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 10:56 AM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: It autodetects if it is privileged and, if so,

Re: [ITP] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Lapo Luchini
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain the gd package: I vote pro, it can be used by mod_php, too. -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)

Re: [ITP] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I vote pro as well. I guess the only thing that needs to happen now is a package review, right? Harold

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:29:08PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and removes these entries silently. The same script could add the root entry to

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:54:17AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:33 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't understand the that was done with Windows 2003 in mind. Setting the uid to 18 in exim seems counterproductive in that environment. The problem I was addressing is

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:29:08PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and removes these

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:21:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What about using a less common name like, say cygwin_root or cygsrv_root or so. ... which would get the name root in /etc/passwd, nevertheless, like this: root:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:0:0:Cygwin root

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Another question is this: Should we actually depend on creating an NT account called root? This might be already in use by a bunch of users and sysadmins just for fun. Probably we do more often collide with that than we like. What about

Re: [ITP] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-12T09:17-0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: ) I vote pro as well. ) ) I guess the only thing that needs to happen now is a package review, right? That is correct. Package: gd 2.0.15-1 Status: Attained required 3 votes. Package available. HOLD-UPS: No good to go review. -- Daniel

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:32:06AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Another question is this: Should we actually depend on creating an NT account called root? This might be already in use by a bunch of users and sysadmins just for

Update: opengl-1.1.0-7

2003-11-12 Thread Andre Bleau
Hi there, I've prepared new binary and source tarballs for the OpenGL package. You can upload them from the folloing URLs: ftp://orbite.chumontreal.qc.ca/OpenGL/setup.hint ftp://orbite.chumontreal.qc.ca/OpenGL/opengl-1.1.0-7.tar.bz2

Re: Update: opengl-1.1.0-7

2003-11-12 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-12T15:30-0500, Andre Bleau wrote: ) I've prepared new binary and source tarballs for the OpenGL package. You ) can upload them from the folloing URLs: ) ) ftp://orbite.chumontreal.qc.ca/OpenGL/setup.hint ) ftp://orbite.chumontreal.qc.ca/OpenGL/opengl-1.1.0-7.tar.bz2 )

Re: gcc branch for cygwin?

2003-11-12 Thread Danny Smith
I'm going to create a 3.3.2 branch for gcc, ok? Danny could you do your magic to the branch? Or would it make better sense to just merge the changes from 3.3.1 - 3.3.2 into the current branch? I think the latter might be safer. My local version has some mingw-specific anon-mmap stuff

[Review 1 - No pass] gd: A graphics library for fast image creation

2003-11-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, I tried to build the package and got the following from the prep step: aclocal: configure.ac: 46: macro `AM_ICONV' not found in library I have updated all of my packages to the latest curr releases. Were you setting a non-default PKG_CONFIG_PATH before running the script? Here is