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Date:      Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:01:43 -0400
From:      Eric Rivas <the_sawmill@worldnet.att.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        kline@ns1.thought.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New windowmaker install bombs...
Message-ID:  <20010728100143.6ce1c06a.the_sawmill@worldnet.att.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010727205548.B38510@tao.thought.org>
References:  <200107280044.f6S0iIO38293@tao.thought.org> <20010727221201.30e4af4f.the_sawmill@worldnet.att.net> <20010727205548.B38510@tao.thought.org>

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:55:48 -0700
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:12:01PM -0400, Eric Rivas wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >     Please excuse the slight OT note, but this is to
> > >     whomever put up the latest windowmaker version.  Because 
> > >     I'm going to run it on my DNS server--outside my firewall--I
> > >     dropped in the new port virtually at once.  It builds, but
> > >     bombs with the make install.  Maybe a bad patch... (?)
> > > 
> > >     Anyway, this heads-up to anyone who is considering up-
> > >     revving.
> > 
> > Take a look at PR 29224, is this what you are talking about?
> 
> 	What do I use to look up|trac a bug?  ...Can't seem to
> 	find the right utility.

PR 29224:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29224

> 
> > 
> > Filed it the other day when I did a fresh install of FreeBSD.  It
> > sucks since I'm reduced down to using the old package.
> > 
> > > 
> 
> 	At any rate, I don't think this is what I was referring to,
> 	Something this afternoon (PDT) there was a posting to 
> 	-security about a potentially dangerous bug in windowmaker.
> 	Plus a fix dated just today (27jul01).  I cvsup's my ports'
> 	tree and retrieved the newest fixed version.

Actually both the regular and i18n versions were fixed on Tuesday.
  
> 
> 	The new version builds without any serious err, but fails
> 	to install in the languages */*.po directory.  I spent 
> 	a few minutes trying to hack out the internationalization
> 	stuff.  Failed; then send this note.  (Only I flubbed and
> 	missent to -stable rather than -security.)
> 

Yeah that's exactly what I had. If you look at the pr, I have a snip
of the install output where it failed.  I tried to track down the
error, but couldn't find it.

Now at least I know it wasn't my fault it failed.

> 	gary
> 
> 	 
> 
> -- 
>    Gary D. Kline    kline@thought.org  www.thought.org    Public
service Unix
> 


-- 
Eric Rivas, KC2HMV

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