This is actually a cool tool. I tried making an openpkg spec file for this about a year ago, but could never get it to work on Solaris. We have a lot of Solaris server so I stopped pursing it. I didn't try really hard to get it working, due to time constraints. The website claims it works on Solaris.
Anyhow, the Bill's version doesn't build on Solaris 9 sparc either. Just in case anyone cares. Mark Keller On Wednesday 12 April 2006 11:09 pm, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote: > > I just heard about iftop at a Seattle Unix Group meeting last > > night, and it appears to be a very useful tool for diagnosing > > network issues. Basically it's like the ``top'' program, but for > > network interfaces. > > Yes, is a really neat tool. > > > As Ralf suggested bringing new packages up on openpkg-dev before > > committing them to the current tree, our SPRMS for this is here: > > > > ftp://ftp.celestial.com/tmp/iftop-0.17-20060412.src.rpm > > > > I have built and tested this on SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 and > > FreeBSD 4.8 (the freebsd version doesn't automatically pick up > > the correct interface but works fine when it's specified with the > > -i option). > > Thanks, Bill. I've reviewed the package and here are my suggestions to > further improve it before you commit it to OpenPKG-CURRENT: > > ========================================================================= > --- iftop.spec.orig 2006-04-12 22:36:52 +0200 > +++ iftop.spec 2006-04-13 07:59:17 +0200 > @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ > > # package information > Name: iftop > -Summary: Display network activity like ``top''. > +Summary: Display Network Interface Activity > URL: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop > -Vendor: Bill Campbell > +Vendor: Paul Warren & Chris Lightfoot > Packager: OpenPKG > Distribution: OpenPKG > Class: EVAL > @@ -41,13 +41,17 @@ > # build information > Prefix: %{l_prefix} > BuildRoot: %{l_buildroot} > -BuildPreReq: OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130, libpcap > -PreReq: OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130, libpcap > +BuildPreReq: OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130 > +PreReq: OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130 > +BuildPreReq: libpcap, ncurses > +PreReq: libpcap, ncurses > AutoReq: no > AutoReqProv: no > > %description > - iftop is a utility to display network activity similar to top. > + iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It > + listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table > + of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. > > %track > prog iftop = { > @@ -61,9 +65,7 @@ > > %build > CC="%{l_cc}" \ > - CXX="%{l_cxx}" \ > CFLAGS="%{l_cflags -O}" \ > - CXXFLAGS="%{l_cxxflags -O}" \ > CPPFLAGS="%{l_cppflags}" \ > LDFLAGS="%{l_ldflags}" \ > ./configure \ > @@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ > %install > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > %{l_make} %{l_mflags} install AM_MAKEFLAGS="DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" > - strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true > + strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/sbin/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true > %{l_rpmtool} files -v -ofiles -r$RPM_BUILD_ROOT %{l_files_std} > > %files -f files > ========================================================================= > > In summary: > > - The "Summary" in OpenPKG is usually an "all caps" sentence > and should be understandable by mostly everyone (hence I removed the > reference to top(1) here as top(1) might be not known to everyone and > is references in %description anyway). > > - The "Vendor" is not the packager (you) but the vendor of the software > we are packaging. Here it is the authors of iftop. > > - iftop links against ncurses which in turn we cannot assume to exist > on all platforms (although FreeBSD and Linux include it in their base > system). Hence we need to add an "ncurses" dependency. That I moved > "libpcap" and "ncurses" onto own dependency headers is just to align > the style of what we do in other packages to more visually separate > regular dependencies on the special library dependencies (where for > "openpkg build" reasons we need both "BuildPreReq" and "PreReq"). > > - The %description headers I've extended a little bit more with the > longer text from the vendor webpage as it really should _describe_ > iftop a little bit for non-experts. Here referencing top(1) is fine, > of course. > > - According to the logfiles the software doesn't use C++ hence I've > removed the C++ related build flags. > > - The software installs into <prefix>/sbin/ and hence I fixed > the path on the strip(1) line. > > Please feel free to commit this new package to OpenPKG-CURRENT with > "openpkg dev release" aka "opd rel" from within the OpenPKG Foundation > setup... > > Yours, > Ralf S. Engelschall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
