Awesome.
Thanks,
David
On 20/07/2011, at 7:34 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, David Walsh wrote:
>
>> This is my first post to the list. I would post it to the suggest
>> list but it seems to be off the air.
>>
>> As CentOS 6 has "finally" been released, I've been testing and discovered
>> that ngrep has not been placed in the EL6 branch. It has been there for 4
>> and 5 at least.
>> Any chance of it being added?
>>
>> I took the src rpm spec file from the EL5 version but it failed to build in
>> two spots.
>>
>> 1) libpcap-devel now places a pcap.h place holder file in /usr/include
>> pointing to the real pcap.h in /usr/include/pcap// Configure gets confused
>> about this...easily overcome by including the full library path.
>>
>> 2) It fails when trying to copy the binary to the temporary folder. I can
>> post the error here if it helps.
>
> Great. I liked the ngrep tool, but I honestly haven't used it for a long
> time, so I didn't notice it missing from RHEL6. So thanks for the heads
> up. I fixed the the package a bit differently so to not have autoconf as a
> dependency (which RHEL2.1 was picky about). For some strange reason I
> cannot give up on building for RHEL2.1 :-/
>
>
>> I downloaded the EPEL version which does have a EL6 version and it works
>> fine and also builds fine. (The comments in the spec file indicate they had
>> the same problem with libpcap but have fixed it)
>> I was going to post their spec file here but was not sure if that was good
>> etiquette. Probably not.
>
> Our opinion always has been that a SPEC file describes how a (perfect)
> RPM package is made from a tarball. And there are no infinite ways to do
> that, so it lacks the creativity that would be required to have some sort
> of copyright. As it is a recipe that, given a good set of packaging
> guidelines, would result in roughly the same SPEC file made by different
> people, we consider those SPEC files to be part of the public domain
> rather than a copyrightable work.
>
> I doubt that the Fedora project would mind sharing SPEC files on public
> lists either.
>
>
>> I thought about switching to EPEL but would prefer to stay with
>> rpmforge as I've always been a "Dag" man. : )
>
> Thanks for the confidence, but for some years this is no longer a single
> person show anymore. So either it's "Dag" men, or better, "Dag" crew ;-)
>
> Or rather, Repoforge is the new name !
>
>
> PS The package will become available somewhere tomorrow.
> --
> -- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/
> -- dagit linux solutions, [email protected], http://dagit.net/
>
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