Ticket History #287: send-pr is broken and sends to bugs not krb5-bugs

From hartmans@MIT.EDU Sun Dec 8 19:10:09 1996
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Subject: send-pr is broken and sends to bugs not krb5-bugs
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The krb5-send-pr in the tree
sends to bugs not krb5-bugs.

The cause of this problem is fairly complex and involved very annoying details of the Gnats build procedure;
we have fixed our build procedures so it will not be introduced in the future,
and need to re-import/re-thaw.





Responsible-Changed-From-To: krb5-unassigned->hartmans
Responsible-Changed-By: hartmans
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 10 05:24:41 1996
Responsible-Changed-Why:

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: hartmans
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 10 05:24:46 1996
State-Changed-Why:
Imported new send-pr to fix.
Also, disabled installation of install-sid
as it won't work.



From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-misc/287: send-pr is broken and sends to bugs not krb5-bugs
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:21:06 -0500

I might as well explain what I know of the problem now that
it's fixed. Basically, the version of send-pr we install in the krb5
tree comes from a send-pr made using the mkdist command in the Gnats
release. This mesans I:

* check out Gnats from the gnats repository

* build and install Gnats

* run mkdist

* cvs import the output in krb5's tree

The problem is that the Gnats configure process goes through a
fairly strange set of procedures to attempt to determine what the
Gnats configuration should be at build time. It reads a configuration
file out of the install tree at configure time among other things.
Apparently, when I built it for the 1.1.1.3 import of send-pr into
krb5, I did something right so the address was krb5-bugs. When I
built the 1.1.1.4 version, I did something wrong, and the address
wasn't krb5-bugs.

I do not know exactly what went wrong nor why. I do not
care; I brute-forced our Gnats build process so it always gets the
right address.

Sorry about the poor testing of the 1.1.1.4 import; I checked
to make sure the part of the change I intended to make happened
correctly, but did not do a full build/install/test cycle.