ximain sucks?

[Ryan Marsh <me ryanmarsh com>]

{ryan}-{cpe-24-221-171-149}-{~}-$ sudo rpm -Uvh gdm-2.2.3.2-1.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
package gdm-2.2.2.1-ximian.8 (which is newer than gdm-2.2.3.2-1) is
already installed
{ryan}-{cpe-24-221-171-149}-{~}-$ rpm -q gdm
gdm-2.2.2.1-ximian.8
{ryan}-{cpe-24-221-171-149}-{~}-$ what the fuck?
bash: what: command not found

So is 2.2.3.2-1 really newer than 2.2.2.1???

-- 
Regards,
-ryan

The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, 
and hubris, but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.

On 13 Aug 2001 23:33:41 -0700, George wrote:
> UNGLUN FLUMBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFGHT
> 
> Security?  We don't need no stinking security!  This release has two security
> related fixes.  First, syslog usage is now more correct, so that users
> logging in can't try to crash gdm by embedding format characters in things.
> All gdm versions prior to this one are affected.  However versions prior to
> the 2.2 series didn't really need much help to crash to begin with.  The
> second fix is that on some setups if the user typed in a non existant
> username, gdm wouldn't ask for password.
> 
> Usability?  We don't need no stinking usability!  This release also has a
> usability patch by Heeten Choxi, implementing a lot of the recomendations
> from the sun usability report.  I've also changed the titlebar to be a lot
> cooler looking (yes I'm being very subjective here).  Plus there are some
> other fixes and improvements of course.
> 
> And now for the standard part of the release announcement:
> 
> Ahh, so you have no clue what gdm is?  Well if you've read this far ... let's
> not get into that.  Gdm is GNOME Display Manager, the little daemon that lets
> you log in to your computer.  It allows xdmcp multiple login displays,
> selection of languages, multiple login sessions and generally is much cooler
> then any xdm clone out there, mostly cuz it isn't an xdm clone to begin with.
> I mean heck, it's even got a graphical configurator, so you don't have to use
> the command line to hose your system anymore.
> 
> News:
> =====
> 
> 2.2.3.2 is again an IP number, and yet again doesn't respond to pings.  Here
> is the output of traceroute for this version:
>   jirka monique:~% /usr/sbin/traceroute 2.2.3.2
>   traceroute to 2.2.3.2 (2.2.3.2), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>    1  vicious (192.168.34.1)  2.763 ms  2.854 ms  0.953 ms
>    2  204-210-7-1.san.rr.com (204.210.7.1)  25.447 ms  77.594 ms  37.382 ms
>    3  ubr6-FastE0-0.san.rr.com (24.25.192.105)  47.215 ms  32.860 ms  70.563 ms
>    4  24-25-192-102.san.rr.com (24.25.192.102)  21.370 ms  27.543 ms  31.086 ms
>    5  7507-POS0-0-0.san.rr.com (24.25.192.10)  52.895 ms  9.955 ms  41.855 ms
>    6  * * *
> And it refuses to go further.  Damn it.
> 
> Highlights of 2.2.3.2:
> 
> - printf/syslog format bugs fixed which fixes possible security
>   problems (Cyril Diakhate, Abel Cheung, Havoc, me)
> 
> - Some fixes coming from the Gnome usability report (Heeten Choxi, me)
> 
> - Nicer titlebar
> 
> - Run /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d from the Gnome session
> 
> - RUNNING_UNDER_GDM defined for init scripts (Owen)
> 
> - Embrace and extend XDMCP so that choosing works nicer.  No worries, still
>   100% compatible with XDMCP 1.0
> 
> - In the redhat package don't use the GiveConsole/TakeConsole since they're
>   not kosher, pam does this for us, for standard, non rpm build this was
>   never done
> 
> - s/Halt/Shut down/
> 
> - Don't ask to save Failsafe sessions
> 
> - When user doesn't exist, ask for a password anyway
> 
> - Various minor fixes (Owen, me)
> 
> - Translation updates (Stanislav Visnovsky, Zbigniew Chyla, Christian Rose,
>   Faith Demir, Abel Cheung, Christian Meyer, Kjartan Maraas,
>   Christopher R. Gabriel, Yukihiro Nakai, me)
> 
> Note:  Gdm2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>, and
> is now maintained by the Queen of England.  Although when she's not answering
> her email, me or Lee Mellabone usually cover for her.
> 
> Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites
> most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf and gnomerc.  It will however
> save backups with the .orig extention first.
> 
> Note3:  Distributors, packagers.  Please, PLEASE use the standard Gnome
> script when setting things up as gnome, or at least equivalently working
> scripts.  It should never be OK to just exec gnome-session, that is
> considered bad form.  The script needs to read (if available) the ~/.gnomerc
> and otherwise read the <sysconfdir>/gdm/gnomerc file.  This allows users and
> administrators to setup custom startup for gnome.  Another thing is that if
> your distro doesn't have gnome-core 1.4.0.3 or later you should probably
> disable the Gnome Chooser stuff until that happens (you should update
> gnome-core anyway).  Third thing is make sure to set up the X servers to run
> on the correct virtual terminals if you start the gdm process before the
> other login thingies.  See the end of the gdm.conf sample file.
> 
> Downloading:
> ============
> 
> To waste your bandwidth to download this new 1.75megs of stinking dung, go to
> (for the gnome.org site you might have to wait for your mirror to update, but
> you may get better performance):
> 
> ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/sources/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/gdm/
> http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/redhat/SRPMS/gdm/
> 
> (Note: I've also made an Alpha/Linux rpm, which is available at the 5z site)
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> George
> 
> PS:  I think I have figured out why the coding for sex thing doesn't work.  I
> believe it is because nobody reads these announcements to the end.  I want to
> test this theory.  If you have read this announcement all the way here,
> please send a mail to jirka 5z com with the subject of "READ GDM ANNOUNCEMENT"
> Inside the body of the message indicate your sex in some standard notation.
> 
> -- 
> George <jirka 5z com>
>    As long as people will accept crap, 
>    it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
>                        -- Dick Cavett, in "Playboy", 1971
> 
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