Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-11 Thread Marc Leeman
Do you know of any efforts to create DFSG q3a content, which would allow migration into main? (just curious) There is, but it's in very early stage: http://www.planetgargoyle.com/openarena/ emphasis on *very* :) If it matures, I'll add it as an alternative, next to installation of the

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
Anyone intersted in answering the call? A link to actual packages files would be good... http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian/ Any reason why you didn't send this to the list but only to me? You will certainly get more useful feed back by actually posting the links in the

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:15:35AM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: Anyone intersted in answering the call? A link to actual packages files would be good... http://scorpius.homelinux.org/~marc/debian/ Hm, the lintian output is not particulary impressive (most of these problems are

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
(most of these problems are probably inherited from the quake2 packaging you used). You will have to fix most of these before someone should sponsor the package. They were all quickly fixed. My intention was to see if anyone was interested in the first place, then do more fundamental

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
I addressed most of the issues, except: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources]$ lintian quake3-data_2_all.deb W: quake3-data: possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script postinst:211 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources]$ lintian quake3_0.1-4_i386.deb W: quake3: binary-without-manpage q3a the new

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: (most of these problems are probably inherited from the quake2 packaging you used). You will have to fix most of these before someone should sponsor the package. W: quake3-data:

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
That is a tag + security race condition between rm and mkdir. You'll want to use mktemp -d instead. fixed, tnx. I didn't look at your script closely; there may be other problems. Nothing should ever get written to /tmp/ except if the output filename is the result of a successful ($?==0)

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:51PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: That is a tag + security race condition between rm and mkdir. You'll want to use mktemp -d instead. fixed, tnx. I didn't look at your script closely; there may be other problems. Nothing should ever get written to /tmp/

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O $fn, then wget will probably call its outupt $fn.1, since $fn exists (as a requirement for

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O $fn, then wget will probably

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: [snip] I decided to put the files in /root/ (like it was in the quake2 package). The main reason for this is that the downloads are considerable and I can assume that users

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread DoyenGuy
What Debian package is mktemp and tempfile a part of? And/or, is there a command I can issue on a debian system to find out what package a command or program belongs to? Tom On 11/10/05, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:51PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: That

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Ben Finney
On 10-Nov-2005, DoyenGuy wrote: What Debian package is mktemp and tempfile a part of? And/or, is there a command I can issue on a debian system to find out what package a command or program belongs to? Most questions about how do I find out X to do with packages already installed on the

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:14:52PM -0500, DoyenGuy wrote: What Debian package is mktemp and tempfile a part of? And/or, is there a command I can issue on a debian system to find out what package a command or program belongs to? dpkg -S bin/mktemp bin/tempfile debianutils: /bin/mktemp

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:48PM +, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: [snip] I decided to put the files in /root/ (like it was in the quake2 package). The main reason for this

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:08AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: (most of these problems are probably inherited from the quake2 packaging you used). You will have to fix most of these before someone should sponsor the package.

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Marc Leeman
/var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? Why not /var/cache/$package/ maybe /v/c/$package/install/ OK, I took the last one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources]$ ls -al /var/cache/quake3-data/install/ total 78336 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16 2005-11-10 23:33 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 2005-11-10 23:32

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:42:41PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: /var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? Why not /var/cache/$package/ maybe /v/c/$package/install/ OK, I took the last one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources]$ ls -al /var/cache/quake3-data/install/ total 78336 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root