Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: +p2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all +Fink users are urged to update the ipasswd/i package in their Fink +installations as follows:/p +ulli Use fink selfupdate-cvs, to update your fink files/li Dave, doesn't this leave the

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
On second thought, it might actually be possible for users without DevTools to follow the fink rebuild passwd instructions. cc and make aren't run in this case: the only commands invoked by the CompileScript and InstallScript are sed, mkdir, and install. Shouldn't those already be present, even

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 21:19 Uhr -0400 01.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: In a discussion on #fink about the passwd problem, it was suggested that we put an announcement about the problem in the News section on Fink's homepage. Appended below is a diff file for the source of that page, which would contain the

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 6:55 Uhr -0400 02.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: +p2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all +Fink users are urged to update the ipasswd/i package in their Fink +installations as

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:44 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote: So what about this now? Should we post it like I suggested, or should yet another text be used? Or will we not post anything again? Looks good to me, post away. -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/

[Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-01 Thread David R. Morrison
In a discussion on #fink about the passwd problem, it was suggested that we put an announcement about the problem in the News section on Fink's homepage. Appended below is a diff file for the source of that page, which would contain the announcement. Any suggestions about the wording, or about