On 2017-12-12 04:48, Tim Stark wrote:
Ok, thanks for let me know. I now learned that DECnet for Linux is
already orphaned a few years ago. CVS facility will go away soon on
Sourceforge.net. I mirrored a copy of CVS repos and successfully
converted to Git repo by following SF instructions for conversion. I
will contact them for latest Linux kernel problems.
Uh? Isn't Linux already using git since many years?
I will now remove decent from Ubuntu 17.10 because it complaint every
few minutes and asked me to send report to Ubuntu maintainers.
Not that surprised. Linux usually have been very quick at changing
internal APIs, making lots of code not work.
Instead I will use DECnet over IP method and got TCPware and MultiNet
software to set up. That allows accesses to HECnet.
Right. It will. And probably work better. But it does require a VMS box.
But I assume you have that.
I was looking for HECnet mail archives but can’t find them. I have now
subscribed to HECnet list. Does anyone know where is that HECnet mail
archives?
Nope. There are none.
I do have all posts, but not in a digestable form, and they are also not
separated from my private mail.
Thanks,
Tim
*From:* Larry Baker [mailto:ba...@usgs.gov]
*Sent:* Monday, December 11, 2017 5:21 PM
*To:* fsword...@gmail.com
*Cc:* simh <simh@trailing-edge.com>
*Subject:* Re: [Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10)
Tim,
Linux-DECnet used to be maintained by Chrissie Caulfield. She gave that
up three years ago. You might ask Steve Whitehouse (st...@chygwyn.com
<mailto:st...@chygwyn.com>) or Eduardo Serrat (emser...@hotmail.com
<mailto:emser...@hotmail.com>)for advice. I last worked on the code
several years ago for a DECnet/FAL-to-NFS gateway I built on a
Marvell SheevaPlug (ARM) SBC using Arch Linux ARM linux-kirkwood-3.16.
(The latest Linux longterm 3.16 kernel at that time was 3.16.6, at
https://www.kernel.org. The last Arch Linux ARM Kirkwood-specific Linux
3.16 kernel was for 3.16.6 on October 16, 2014, at
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/commit/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e979d4d377f5e2e5.)
I had to patch the kernel driver in a couple places. There have been
so may changes to the routing layer and networking in general in the
Linux kernel, it could be a substantial amount of work to advance the
decnet driver any further. Also, I found that submitting patches to
older kernels is a bit of a problem because of the attitude of the
gatekeeper of the Linux networking code.
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