[Sks-devel] SKS 1.1.0

[Joseph Oreste Bruni]

Hi List,

I recently downloaded the sks 1.1.0 code and I have a few items that  
I'd like to report. Perhaps others have seen them also.

1) The install bombed when trying to install the man page. It looks  
like GNU Make (latest is 3.81 which comes with OS X 10.5.2) is not  
able to make the connection from "sks.pod" to "sks.8" to "sks.8.gz".  
Manually making "sks.8" and then "sks.8.gz" allowed the "make install"  
to complete normally.

One solution would be to omit the compressing to ".gz" and just  
install the raw man page. The uncompressed page is only 14195 bytes  
and the compressed one is 5250. I don't know what kind of systems most  
are using but disk space at that order of magnitude is not much of a  
savings. Another solution would be to omit the "sks.8" build rule and  
go straight from "sks.pod" to "sks.8.gz" with the following build  
instruction:

pos2man sks.pod | gzip -c > sks.8.gz

Thus, skipping the sks.8 intermediate file which gets deleted anyway.


2) I'm running my server as a stand-alone for the time being. I have "- 
disable_mailsync" and "-dontgossip" as command-line options.

After adding my first key, I start seeing this in the log:

2008-05-20 17:48:04 <mail transmit keys> error in callback.:  
Failure("No partners specified")
2008-05-20 17:48:14 <mail transmit keys> error in callback.:  
Failure("No partners specified")
2008-05-20 17:48:24 <mail transmit keys> error in callback.:  
Failure("No partners specified")

I checked how the value "send_mailsyncs" is used and it doesn't appear  
to be tested correctly in "dbserver.ml" on line 642. It doesn't appear  
to be checked at all near the code that produces the above error  
messages. I'm not at all familiar with the ocaml language, so I'm  
probably not reading this correctly.

Joe

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