RE: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] > >First, I think what Daniel Jacobowitz said is entirely true. Why didn't you >start with "testing"? > >> All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other >> package would have been hap

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug bit the > > latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and wasn't the > > least > > What (probably; I am gu

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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread viro
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:48:25PM +1100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-03 22:52]: > > but I wouldn't touch Herbert's kernels with a ten-feet pole. > > Can you elaborate why? a) I can do better b) I don't do huge monolitic patches c) I don't like

ITP: paxtest

2003-11-03 Thread Russell Coker
The license is GPL. It's the test program for PaX by Peter Busser. PaX is a Linux kernel patch which adds much stricter control on how memory is being used by applications. A normal Linux kernel leaves the control to the application and does not implement any enforcement. Especially buffer o

Re: Exec-shield question

2003-11-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:57, Juakin Kanela Loco wrote: > Hello, I would like to know if Exec-shield has non-executable state on its > shared library bss/data VMA's. Since you guys are so deep on your > discussions, you may help me somehow. Below are the paxtext results for exec-shield on 2.4.22 which

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-03 22:52]: > but I wouldn't touch Herbert's kernels with a ten-feet pole. Can you elaborate why? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exec-shield question

2003-11-03 Thread Juakin Kanela Loco
Hello, I would like to know if Exec-shield has non-executable state on its shared library bss/data VMA's. Since you guys are so deep on your discussions, you may help me somehow.   Best regards,   Juakin Kanela da Silva Sauro Jr.Yahoo! Mail - o melhor webmail do Brasil. Saiba mais!

Re: comerr-dev (>= 2.0-1.33-2)

2003-11-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:23:42PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I need to upgrade my semi-woody system. I don't want to do a > dist-upgrade (only upgrade MIT Kerberos V). The 1.3-2 version > needs comerr-dev (>= 2.0-1.33-2) and I have 2.0-1.27-2. > > Jumping to 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 seem

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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug bit the > latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and wasn't the least What (probably; I am guessing a bit) continued the chain of events: - no prio

release cycle Was: [debian-devel] Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Magosányi Árpád
A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy Daniel Jacobowitz a következőeket írta: > > what they get> > > No, really. This is what stable and testing releases are for. I fully agree. But... When I tell it to my friends, some say that stable is way too old for them. In these cases I used to think about how t

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Billy Biggs
Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] Lot of new HW has a better chance to be (better) supported on > newer system (are new kernels available for stable?) Of particular interest to desktop users is XFree86's video card drivers. -Billy

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread viro
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:22:00PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that what is > usefull for you is usefull for everybody. > > Hint: there's more to "useful" than old version of software in early > stages of development. Lot of desktop orien

Re: apcupsd && apcupsd-devel

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:39:20PM +0100, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: > apcupsd was uploaded on 28 of October. > It has been divided in two packages: the main and the doc. > The doc is new so it should be added to the override file but > apcupsd (which suggest but doesn't depend on apcupsd-doc)

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Greenland wrote: On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not gotten anything done at work in the last two years using my "useless" Debian stable desktop. Hint: there's more to "useful" than running t

Re: apcupsd && apcupsd-devel

2003-11-03 Thread Samuele Giovanni Tonon
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:38:28PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:46:37PM +0100, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: > > > some weeks ago apcupsd-devel went stable. I tried to contact apcupsd DM > > but it seems MIA (or am i wrong) . > > > > I would like to takeover to apcup

Re: improvements to apt: my thanks to the developers

2003-11-03 Thread Graham Williams
Received Mon 03 Nov 2003 6:07am +1100 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > ... > so, with that background, i am absolutely DELIGHTED to note that > apt has some additional information that it displays: it shows up > the recommended and suggested packages. > > this is INCREDIBLY helpful because by

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Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry this message go to the poster instead of the list. > There have always been some kernel headers in libc6-dev, they've just been split out into a separate package now. Several of these headers are referenced by headers provided by glibc

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:57:34PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > All I want to do is give up on this new version and go to an earlier version, > most likely the version I had installed five minutes ago. Downgrading to > testing would probably require a whole new set of libraries and more work. I keep

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is even worse than unstable> Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not gotten anything done at work in the last two years using my "useless" Debian stable desktop. Hint: there's more to "useful" than r

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, I think what Daniel Jacobowitz said is entirely true. Why didn't you > start with "testing"? Sure testing is less likely to trigger this. But testing isn't infallible either. And it shouldn't be mean Debian shouldn't have better error handli

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry this message go to the poster instead of the list. > > > There have always been some kernel headers in libc6-dev, they've just > > > been split out into a separate package now. Several of these headers > > > are referenced by headers provided by glibc which would break those > > > headers i

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Marc Haber
On 03 Nov 2003 15:05:56 -0500, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug bit the >latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and wasn't the least >bit fazed by that. What drove him batty was that it was so hard to reco

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 03 Nov 2003 15:05:56 -0500 Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way > and the light. Great, you are rigth! [...] > What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug > bit the latest libc6 release. He's an

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: ... What would be really neat would be if aptitude or perhaps even apt checked for earlier versions of the package in the pool and offered them as options if the current one fails to configure. No, really. This

RE: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] First, I think what Daniel Jacobowitz said is entirely true. Why didn't you start with "testing"? > All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other > package would have been happy. All the infrastructure is there to do > this,

ANN: tla-buildpackage

2003-11-03 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other package > would have been happy. All the infrastructure is there to do this, the old > packages are all on the ftp/http sites, the package may even be sitting in > a

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way and the > light. He started a new job and showed up on his first day to set up his > machine by installing Debian. In short, things went horribly wrong and he > sta

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tiago Assumpção <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031103 17:48]: > I won't say here that Red Hat, Inc. would be manipulating information > to force Debian users to use one of their products, because I would be going > down, at the same level as Coker. This should be teached in schoolbooks as paralipsis. And

A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way and the light. He started a new job and showed up on his first day to set up his machine by installing Debian. In short, things went horribly wrong and he started this new job by wasting two days picking up the pieces. He's now

Re: exec-shield (maybe ITP kernel-patch-exec-shield)

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:42:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's another > exploitable bug in Exec-shield that I've known of for months. Maybe > you'll find it after you put it into Debian. Maybe not. Suddenly I don't feel inclined to believe *anything* this guy says. -- .''`.

Re: comerr-dev (>= 2.0-1.33-2)

2003-11-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find '= 2.0-1.33-2' (or something around that number)? > It used to be an 'attic' (morgue I think it is called) on ftp-master. > This however only have files roughly two months back... If it was a package then its available at snapshot.d

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:03:17PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:17:39PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:21:14AM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Since when does the package libc6-dev depend on linux

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:26:42PM -0300, Tiago AssumpÃÃo wrote: > First of all, maybe the most important, we have the freedom problem here. > Itïs CLEAR, after analyzing his own words, that our friend Russell Coker > has a big interest of getting Exec-shield as part of Debian Linux. > That becomes

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Nov-03, 11:26 (CST), Tiago Assump??o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, maybe the most important, we have the freedom problem here. > It?s CLEAR, after analyzing his own words, that our friend Russell Coker > has a big interest of getting Exec-shield as part of Debian Linux. > That b

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:18:29PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or > > > not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen. > > > > It does not need to. Fe

comerr-dev (>= 2.0-1.33-2)

2003-11-03 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I need to upgrade my semi-woody system. I don't want to do a dist-upgrade (only upgrade MIT Kerberos V). The 1.3-2 version needs comerr-dev (>= 2.0-1.33-2) and I have 2.0-1.27-2. Jumping to 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 seems to be to big a step... Where can I find '= 2.0-1.33-2' (or something aroun

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or > > not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen. > > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this > more clearly (I don't reall