[2704] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-misc/400: send-pr portability problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tlyu@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 19 17:32:08 1997
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:26:39 -0500
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>Number: 400
>Category: krb5-misc
>Synopsis: send-pr portability problems
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 19 17:27:00 EST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tom Yu
>Organization:
mit
>Release: 1.0-development
>Environment:
System: SunOS tesla-coil 5.4 Generic_101945-37 sun4m sparc
>Description:
send-pr, in the form that we have it in the current tree, has
some hardcoded architecture dependencies in it. The sequence is
send-pr/send-pr.sh in the GNATS sources becomes
PREFIX/share/gnats/dist/send-pr.sh in GNATS installation, which then
gets mangled by EXEC-PREFIX/bin/mkdist, which is then imported to our
sources. The problem is that configure gets run *before* send-pr.sh
gets installed in PREFIX/share/gnats/dist/send-pr.sh, and this
includes sets some architecture dependent variables, such as the
MAIL_AGENT, ECHON, and PASSWD, in the send-pr.sh that gets used as
input to mkdist. This is undoubtedly the wrong behavior.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install krb5-send-pr on e.g. a system that needs ypcat
instead of 'cat /etc/passwd' to list the passwd file, etc.
>Fix:
We probably want to run a patch back to Cygnus at some point,
but right now we can add the tests that end up setting these variables
directly to the send-pr.sh that we have in our sources.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
