Subject: Re: Damn it! pkgsrc stupidity again
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@redhat.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/01/2006 13:40:34
Could you please read a relevant document about writing mails,
especially filling the 'Subject:' line, before sending mail next time?
The "Subject:" field is the most common and contains a short string
identifying the topic of the message.
-- RFC 2822 [1]
[1] ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt
On Ut, 2006-10-31 at 16:30 -0800, John Klos wrote:
> Let's see if there's even a MODICUM of common sense in this scheme. First,
> everyone and their dog has said that it'd be nice if "make update" doesn't
> delete the package BEFORE trying to build the new one. Whatever - nobody's
> gotten around to fixing that.
>
> However, why does "make update" delete a package BEFORE reporting the
> relevant package as insecure?
>
> This isn't user friendly. It isn't even admin friendly!
>
> John Klos
Warm Regards,
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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)