gpm 1.19.4 X Raw Hide version

[Nico Schottelius]

> I'm Cc'ing him. BTW, where's the documentation for 1.19.4 ?

> No man pages.

Yeah I know.
The make clean before removed it.
There is also a new bug in the doc Makefile.
It's fine in gpm-1.19.5.


> About gpm-1.19.3-root.patch:
>
> -       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -o root -m 755 disable-paste $(bindir)/disab=
le-paste
> +       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) disable-paste $(bindir)/disable-paste
>
> I think Red Hat removed -o root -m 755 because it's the
> default.

okay.

> 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.

For sure.
You read the comments of Alessandro and know how senseless it is
to have work done twice.

Nico


> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:12:12PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Fr=E9d=E9ric 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=
=2E
> > 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.pat=
ch
> > >                                  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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