Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [ devil-linux-Bugs-821176 ] add setserial

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>Now wait a minute.  I thought 1.0 was frozen to new additions?  :-)
>>>
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>>Yeah it is.
>>But Friedrich (he again...) send out this email with the this link....
>>http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-6.1.html
>>see 6.1.2
>>
>>So I classified it as bug., because I got the message. ;-)
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>
>In that sense, all the stuff I've been doing in 1.1 are really bug
>fixes.  I can rationalize too, check this out:   :-)
>
>It started out with the squid authorization modules not working.
>(because they were not being compiled).  Then I tried the yp_auth module
>and it didn't run because it needed ypbind to be running.  So I added
>ypbind, but it wouldn't compile without yp-tools, so I added it.  Then
>ypbind didn't run because it needed the RPC portmapper.  So I added the
>portmapper, but it wouldn't compile because it needed tcp_wrappers, so I
>added it ...  (talk about dependency hell! :)
>
>You see, all one big BUG FIX!!!    ;-)
>(and the most amazing thing is it even works!)
>Feel free to back port the changes to 1.0!  (or not :)
>
You'll use a CVS version anyway, so I don't even argument with you. 

>BTW, while I was adding all the NIS crap, I also added ypserv so it's
>all there, also a bug fix since we don't want only part of the yp crap.
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>
You're so full of shit sometimes !
But that's why I like you. ;-)

>And I also wrote some enhancements to yp_auth.c, now a patch on DL.
>(I'll spare you the details unless you really want to hear about it)
>Maybe I should submit that patch to the squid people ...
>  
>
Yes please submit the patch, so others can benefit from it to.

cya
  Heiko