Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-25 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hi Donovan, On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:38:17AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: Did you see my analysis and modified register-python-package script? I posted it under a misleading subject by mistake (responded to another thread that migrated onto it). Sorry, sometimes I have lag in responding :)

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-25 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:07:53PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Hi Donovan, On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:38:17AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: Did you see my analysis and modified register-python-package script? I posted it under a misleading subject by mistake (responded to another

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:34:46PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: ... OK, I got creative and figured out a way the python-central could work without using an emac's style registry, instead just using the existing dpkg Depends: information. Comments welcome. This one is a bit more tested than

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Jim Penny
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:35:47AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: The python-central approach attempts to provide a single package that supports multiple versions of python. Education of end-users and even packagers is

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:34:46PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: ... OK, I got creative and figured out a way the python-central could work without using an emac's style registry, instead just using the existing dpkg Depends:

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:54:24PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:35:47AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: [...] The packages, provided they are built right, will be pretty self explanitory. Installing python-foo

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Are you sure all package names are sane? Or could some joker distribute a (non official ofcourse) python package with a name just waiting to exploit this unsanitized use of its name in a script running as root? Huh? Aren't these

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:55:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Are you sure all package names are sane? Or could some joker distribute a (non official ofcourse) python package with a name just waiting to exploit this

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-23 Thread Jim Penny
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:03:59PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:38:17AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:05:22AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: [...] Did you see my analysis and modified register-python-package script? I posted it under

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:03:59PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:38:17AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:05:22AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: [...] Did you see my analysis

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
the last. -- -- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key -- #!/bin/sh # the python registrar # directory with registered packages CENTRAL=/var

Re: The Python Registrar

2002-02-22 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:05:22AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Hello. The first version of the python-central package is online at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ It provides support for installing pure Python modules independent of the Python version (see Python

The Python Registrar

2002-02-11 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hello. The first version of the python-central package is online at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ It provides support for installing pure Python modules independent of the Python version (see Python Policy 2.2.3). I made a patch for the python1.5 package which uses this