Chroots (was: bind9-chroot)

2001-09-23 Thread Itai Zukerman
etc/rc.*/ links, create ones in /etc/rc.*/ #which point to something to chroot and run the ones in #/var/root/mail/etc/rc.*/. What do you think? It doesn't seem that it would be too hard to implement, but I bet it's not as useful as it seems (to me). -- Itai Zukerman

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-06 Thread Itai Zukerman
> > The thing is, kernel-headers should not be used at all unless you're > > compile glibc, or modules. Anything else will break. > > So you're saying it's better to hardcode syscall numbers and stuff > than using the kernel headers? Sre... Also chiming in: Suppose my code reads a struct fro

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je 05 May 2001 15:06:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribis: > Try this: suggest the kernel-headers package, and set > CFLAGS += -I$(KSRC)/include > and instruct people to set the KSRC variable as needed. > [...] > Have a default value for KSRC if you need, and arrang

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je Sat, 5 May 2001 11:09:20 -0400, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribis: > IMO, we can use alternatives. And it should be fairly easy > > update-alternatives --install /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2 kernel-headers-2.2 \ > /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2. > > Where "" would be something like "19" (

Bug#96359: make-kpkg, glibc, /usr/src/linux and FHS

2001-05-04 Thread Itai Zukerman
Package: kernel-package Severity: wishlist According to the FHS (2.1), 6.1.6 /usr/src : Source code For systems based on glibc, there are no specific guidelines for this directory. For systems based on Linux libc revisions prior to glibc, the following guidelines and ra

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Itai Zukerman
Again, could: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 have anything to do with this? -itai

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Itai Zukerman
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > > situation: Maybe it's this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 The patch is trivial. Try dowloading the source and rebuilding dpkg (that's what I

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-24 Thread Itai Zukerman
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:30:18 -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ -x install-upx ] && install-upx /usr/bin/foo /usr/bin/bar > > > > to her postinst or > > fine > > > dh_upx > > > > to her rules. > > NO! this would absolutly suck. that leaves the admin in the position > to

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-24 Thread Itai Zukerman
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:14:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > >> you want. The postinst code would call the compression routines, > >> which might not do anything, depending on how the compressing package > >> was configured (i.e., it wouldn't call the compressing code directly, >

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-22 Thread Itai Zukerman
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:02:30 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > If not, I suggest a debhelper command to add the necessary code to > > the postinst. Packages that use this should, of course, depend on the > > binar

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-22 Thread Itai Zukerman
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:57:54 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2001 00:45, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > Why not compress the binaries in the postinst, maybe after asking the > > admin for permission? > > Well, if I had to answer "no" to compre

crypt(3) utilities

1999-09-24 Thread Itai Zukerman
A package I've been looking at, icecast(-server), provides a utility mkpasswd. This utility just takes a password and salt and returns the result of crypt(3). I notice that the whois package provides exactly the same functionality in a utility called cryptpw. Are there other packages that simila