Bug 4896 – wdm-1.20.ebuild (New Install)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Marcin Jessa 2002-07-11 20:45:42 UTC]

wdm combines the functions of a graphical display manager identifying and 
authenticating a user on a system with some of the functions of a session 
manager in selecting and starting a window manager. Optionally, wdm can 
shutdown (reboot or halt) the system.
wdm is a modification of XFree86's xdm package for graphically handling 
authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved (XFree86 
3.3.2.3) with the Login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom 
Rothamel's "external greet" interface

[Comment 1 Marcin Jessa 2002-07-11 20:47:46 UTC]

Created attachment 2163 [details]
XFree86's xdm package for graphically handling authentication and system login.

[Comment 2 Graeme Gregory 2002-07-20 04:50:08 UTC]

This ebuild as given didnt build on my system due to bugs in the base tar.gz file.
I applied the patch from the bebian package of wdm and recreated the tar.gz file
from the patched version to make a buildable and installable wdm.

I would suggest applying the relevant sections of this patch from the ebuild.

[Comment 3 Nick Hadaway 2002-10-07 13:04:36 UTC]

I am going to be looking into this package more.  It hasn't been updated since 
2000... the last bit of xdm code was taken from xdm 4.0.x... so this puts it a 
couple of revisions behind...  
 
I will look at the debian patches to see what they change but the need for 
such an out of date package is questionable. 
 
I'll post more here as I get some research done.  If you have any comments 
regarding the security of wdm compared to xdm/kdm/gdm... that would be 
important to know. 

[Comment 4 Nick Hadaway 2002-10-17 13:23:23 UTC]

http://www.tcscs.com/wdm/

The site and project appear to be dead since 2000... the base of xdm code is 
quite behind compared to xdm/gdm/kdm... 

I don't think this package is a good idea to have on gentoo currently.