gpm 1.19.4 X Raw Hide version

[=?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier]

Hi Nico and all. I think it's better to contact Preston
Brown. Reading gpm.spec, I bet he made some patches.

I'm Cc'ing him. BTW, where's the documentation for 1.19.4 ?
No man pages.

About gpm-1.19.3-root.patch:

-       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -o root -m 755 disable-paste $(bindir)/disable-paste
+       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) disable-paste $(bindir)/disable-paste

I think Red Hat removed -o root -m 755 because it's the
default.

Anyway, I suggest Red Hat and other distribution developers
to work together with you and others. Some patches may be
useful and you won't know about if nobody send them.

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:12:12PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Frédéric and everybody else!
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi Nico. What do you think about the attached patches ? All
> > are in Red Hat's Raw Hide 1.19.3-20. BTW, I don't use Red
> > Hat, but compiled their version on my system. Please, let me
> > know if they're OK, and which will be applied in the official
> > release.
> >
> >    gpm-1.19.1-secenhance.patchName: gpm-1.19.1-secenhance.patch
> >                               Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> applied.
> 
> >
> >    gpm-1.19.2-limits.patchName: gpm-1.19.2-limits.patch
> >                           Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> OPEN_MAX is defined in linux/limits.h.
> So we can use it. Short: refused/already applied.
> 
> >
> >    gpm-1.19.3-devfs.patchName: gpm-1.19.3-devfs.patch
> >                          Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> refused. why shouldn't we use /dev/console ? It still exists in devfs.
> the #if 1 is removed in the next release.
> May
> 
> >    gpm-1.19.3-docfix.patchName: gpm-1.19.3-docfix.patch
> >                           Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> partly manually applied.
> What's against 'plug & pray ' ? :)
> 
> 
> >    gpm-1.19.3-noworldwrite.patchName: gpm-1.19.3-noworldwrite.patch
> >                                 Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> nothing applied. parts where also senseless:
> 
> +      unlink(tmp_pidfile);
> 
> unlink the pidfile of another running gpm!
> refused.
> 
> >    gpm-1.19.3-root.patchName: gpm-1.19.3-root.patch
> >                         Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> why should we not use
> install -o root -m 755 XX bindir/XX ?
> refused.
> 
> >    gpm-1.19.3-serialconsole.patchName: gpm-1.19.3-serialconsole.patch
> >                                  Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> I don't know much about serialconsole.
> Do we really need so much code for the serial
> console ? Where's the matter with the normal code ?
> delayed until someone helps me with serialconsole (maybe you ?).
> 
> 
> >    gpm-nops.patchName: gpm-nops.patch
> >                  Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> There are more problems with the doc than just the ps file.
> There is a big need of new structure.
> I will keep the patch in mind, but will not apply it.
> 
> 
> >    gpm-root.patchName: gpm-root.patch
> >                  Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> 
> There are still some unclear things regarding to gpm-root.y.
> So this patch is delayed into patches/tobedone.
> 
> 
> Nico
> 

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