[sudo-workers] sudo 1.8.8b3 available

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Wed Sep 11 13:02:04 MDT 2013


On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:26:20 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> - The first is a simple typo fix in the classic insults that I've been
>   carrying around more or less forever.  Sorry about that!

I've resisted changing this for historical reasons.  That insult
was added by someone who eschewed upper case letters.

> - The second is an erroneous inclusion of $$CWD in a Makefile.in path
>   that breaks the ability to run the test suite successfully when
>   building outside of the source tree, which I do to emit both
>   ldap-enabled and regular binaries for Debian.  (I kind of hope the
>   LDAP build can go away someday if the sssd support takes off, but
>   I guess we'll see)

Fixed.

> - The third removes the check_ttyname call in the src/Makefile.in since
>   it fails when building inside pbuilder, et al.  I don't think that
>   check adds any value, but feel free to ignore this patch if you want
>   to keep the call in the default Makefile.

This check will now report SKIP instead of FAIL if ttyname() cannot
resolve the tty.  That should fix the problem when building inside
pbuilder.

 - todd


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