Open Mac screenshot on Fedora

Hannes Mayer h.mayer at inode.at
Wed Feb 2 10:32:07 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> I was going to raise a bug about the missing picttoppm binary in the
> netpbm-progs package but when I looked at the spec file and the patches
> for netpbm, I discovered that picttoppm was deliberately removed,
> apparently for security reasons. The patch netpbm-10.23-security.patch
> removes picttoppm from the list of programs to build in the Makefile,
> and adds the following line to the start of the picttoppm code:
> 
> #error "Unfixable. Don't ship me"
> 
> So instead I have raised a bug about the package containing a manpage
> for a program that is not shipped:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=146863

Thanks Paul!

The usage of picttoppm is a bit uncommon
# picttoppm file.pict > file.ppm
but I don't think this is what the folks at redhat meant.

I'll look at the bugzilla entry every now and then.

Best regards,
Hannes.




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