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Re: sendmail 8.7.5-4 is still a.out?



In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960616153307.3155F-100000@taz.net.au> you write:
|
|On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> What are the sizes and times on your binary?  
|
|$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
|-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       235864 May  7 14:44 /usr/sbin/sendmail
|
|$ file /usr/sbin/sendmail
|/usr/sbin/sendmail: setuid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, 
|stripped
|
|
|> |root@birnam| ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
|> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       229376 May 22 16:14 /usr/sbin/sendmail*
|> 
|> These times and sizes match the ones in the .deb file (do 'dpkg -c
|> sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb').
|
|$ cd /debian/unstable/binary-i386/mail
|
|$ ls -l sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb 
|-r--r--r--   1 root     root       563907 May  7 12:16 sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb
|
|$ dpkg -c sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb  | grep sbin/sendmail
|
|-rwsr-xr-x root/root    235864 May  7 14:44 1996 usr/sbin/sendmail
|                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  matches what's 
|installed on my system
|
|
|Weird.  
|
|Two possibilities spring to mind:
|
|1. yours is dated may 22, mine is may 7.  maybe a new version came out which
|was accidentally compiled as a.out

Then the minor number would have been advanced (>= 5 instead of 4),
wouldn't it?

|
|2. your may 22 is referring to 1995, not 1996 and you have an old package
|which somehow got renamed to the current release filename.

As for the '95 theory, I doubt that since it should have showed the year if
it was that old.  As for the renaming - maybe.  "dpkg -I" shows:

|birnam| dpkg -I sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb 
 old debian package, version 0.939000.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

|my sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb is from my mirror, which is updated every night.  
|where did you get your sendmail.deb file from?

>From tsx-11, as far as I remember (just grabbed things yesterday, but
tsx didn't have everything so I took some things from ftp.debian.org).

Will try to fetch from another archive.

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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