Re: Missing Package in 2008Q1 release?

[Isaac Wagner-Muns <fubar22%gmail.com@localhost>]

i wonder why it hasn't been changed in the pkgsrc manual though?


thanks,
isaac

On Jul 4, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:41:43 -0500
> Isaac Wagner-Muns <fubar22%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > where would i find the audit-packages package? the pkgsrc manual
> > says that it's in security/audit-packages, but the directory
> > audit-packages does not exist.
> It's now part of pkg_install -- go to pkgtools/pkg_install and do a
> 'make update'.
> > "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
> > constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every
> > appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
> > statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This
> > also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi
> > change." ___Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
> You'd be surprised...  I remember a program written by an a
> acquaintance that stopped working when the trig library changed.  He
> finally realized that he had to solve for pi -- that is, find the  
> value
> near 3.14 for which sin(x) yielded 0....
>
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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