June 1998 - XEmacs-Beta - XEmacs Mailing List Archives

Pete Ware

If it were digitally signed so one could be confident it was a "real" package-get-base.el then it'd be reasonable. Actually, it might be nice to add a digital signature to each package entry to allow developers to post a package entry via news or mail and have the packaging system verify it as legit. I don't use digital signatures so I have no idea what code is involved or how seemlessly that can work for most people. I hate the thought of introducing easily exploited trojan horses. Here are some other things I wanted to do with the package stuff and I'm not going to have time to do (besides the user interface): 1. Add a digital signature for the entire package-get-base.el file 2. Add an [optional] digital signature field for each package entry. Both the above should warn the user if they are not verifying the signature. 3. Add a filter to gnus & vm to automatically scarf posted package entries (well, put the filter in package-get.el but make it easy to add to mail/news readers). 4. Allow the "filename" field to be optional. This would allow "meta" packages that cause a bunch of other packages to be downloaded in one fell swoop. (The change has to happen in ``package-get'' so instead of throwing an error it just needs to return at that point.) --pete

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Re: package-get-base question 27 years

Pete Ware

If it were digitally signed so one could be confident it was a "real" package-get-base.el then it'd be reasonable. Actually, it might be nice to add a digital signature to each package entry to allow developers to post a package entry via news or mail and have the packaging system verify it as legit. I don't use digital signatures so I have no idea what code is involved or how seemlessly that can work for most people. I hate the thought of introducing easily exploited trojan horses. Here are some other things I wanted to do with the package stuff and I'm not going to have time to do (besides the user interface): 1. Add a digital signature for the entire package-get-base.el file 2. Add an [optional] digital signature field for each package entry. Both the above should warn the user if they are not verifying the signature. 3. Add a filter to gnus & vm to automatically scarf posted package entries (well, put the filter in package-get.el but make it easy to add to mail/news readers). 4. Allow the "filename" field to be optional. This would allow "meta" packages that cause a bunch of other packages to be downloaded in one fell swoop. (The change has to happen in ``package-get'' so instead of throwing an error it just needs to return at that point.) --pete

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package-get-base props 27 years

Oliver Graf

Hi there! What does "dump t" mean? The package needs to be in package path at dump time, later install does not work? It seems only some low-level packages (sun tooltalk etc.) but also some high-level (vc vc-cc vm) set the dump prop to t. How should a vm package be handled (cause it needs xemacs to be redumped)? Regards, Oliver.

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Re: XEmacs 21.0b46, Packages 27 years

Michael Sperber

>>>>> "Ray" == Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes: Ray> Yes, this has been my biggest problem in fully enjoying the Ray> package experience. I have not yet been able to get EFS to work Ray> through our firewall, even though kerberos (itelnet, iftp) is Ray> working correctly. I followed all of the directions, but EFS via Ray> kerberos refuses to work. (Solaris 2.5.1) Could you file an EFS bug report on this (M-x efs-report-bug)? I can't find any complaint in my EFS mailing list archives. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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Re: Web maintainer 27 years

Michael Sperber

>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: Hrvoje> Who is maintaining our web space? Some things in the beta/ tree are Hrvoje> embarrassingly outdated, e.g. the next beta info. Also, the Future Hrvoje> Work page should be updated now and then, at least to remove the stuff Hrvoje> that has actually been done, like "Add a way to resize horizontally Hrvoje> split windows with the mouse." Hrvoje> Also, the webmaster address does not appear to be read by anyone. Also, where are the beta mailing list archives? I seem to remember an announcement for this, but I may be hallucinating. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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Re: Any (brave :-) mew users? 27 years

Hrvoje Niksic

greg(a)alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes: > Hrvoje> Sorry, I meant file_name_completion() in dired.c. > > Given the recent changes to expand-file-name I assumed we were > trying to keep this kind of stuff out of the low level file > primitives. Maybe, and maybe not. I still think file_name_completion is the right place to change, but if you present arguments otherwise, I can stand corrected. > It seemed to make more sense at the point where environment > variables are expanded. Or would /etc/passwd only be consulted if > the directory arg were empty and the file arg started with '~'. Maybe. The expand-file-name change you quote is not relevant here -- it's changing behaviour from Lisp, and as such makes a lot of sense. file_name_completion(), on the other hand, is pure UI (it is called by the completion functions). -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Idle RAM is the Devil's playground.

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Warning (was Re: gnus package is old) 27 years

SL Baur

> new gnus package uploaded. Beware, this version of Gnus has problems. It appears to be ignoring group parameters.

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Re: XEmacs 21.0b46, Packages 27 years

Hrvoje Niksic

"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw(a)CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes: > 1. Will there be a godzilla-package that contains everything I'd need > to destroy Reston... er, I mean fill up my disk. I've got a good > network connection and lots of disk space to burn, so I just want > to install everything. A so-called "SUMO" tarball containing (almost) all the packages has been planned. The specifics have not yet been agreed on, but I think the complete tarball will exist. > 3. I had a problem with the skk package. It seems I downloaded and > installed that but built XEmacs w/o MULE (since none of my people > use it anyway). XEmacs would not start since the skk package got > loaded at run-time (somehow), but it couldn't load `mule'. Seems > like skk should be a little more robust. Yes, that's pretty lousy. I also solved that problem by rm'ing skk/. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The end of the world is coming... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

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Re: gnus package is old 27 years

SL Baur

[Uh oh, why did Gnus put you in the Cc?] Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: > SL Baur <steve(a)vmailer.xemacs.org> writes: >> I know about this bug -- it's why I didn't immediately package >> 5.6.11. I know about the fix. I was waiting for Lars to come out >> with 5.6.12. > Lars appears to take some time. We should probably just roll our own > patched-up 5.6.11, given that it solves MS Windows problems. Lars came through tonight. :-) (gnus (standards-version 1.0 version "1.17" author-version "5.6.12" date "1998-06-01" build-date "1998-06-23" maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>" distribution stable priority medium category "comm" dump nil description "The Gnus Newsreader and Mailreader." filename "gnus-1.17-pkg.tar.gz" md5sum "51c38b688f3c3c12a816ab809e4daf62" size 1656018 provides (gnus message) requires (gnus w3 mh-e mailcrypt rmail mail-lib xemacs-base) type regular ))

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[Success} XEmacs-21.0-b46 "Toggenburg" on Digital UNIX 4.0D 27 years

Kevin Oberman

Built with NO problems on 4.0D using Digital C compiler and "-O2" for CFLAGS. Build included gifreader, libjpeg, libz, xpm and CDE. No more need for "--use-union-type" which also avoided the compiler error that was forcing the compilation of frame.c with gcc! Thanks for the fix! (I have been on vacation for 4 days or I would have built this sooner.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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