Subject: Re: netatalk: netgroup support
From: Norman Paterson (norman@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 06:42:44 EDT
>> I got the netatalk src.rpm but I have not been able to get it to
>> recompile.
>
>First thing I'd do right here is to try to build from the pristine
>sources instead of from the RPM. While you don't have an entry in your
>RPM database when it's all done, you know that everything happens as
>expected by the author, rather than by the rpm-repackager.
>
>(We build all critical tools from source by policy, so I couldn't help
>you with the rpm bit anyhow.)
I'm going to persevere with RPM for a bit. Partly to learn more about it,
but also, if it works, it's quite a neat solution. But I take your point
about the rpm-repackager being a source of uncertainty.
-- Norman Paterson, University of St Andrews http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~norman/
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