Subject: Re: netatalk.com
From: jeff b (jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 22:15:55 EDT
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> I spoke to my buddy Steve (Hi, Steve), the owner of the netatalk.com
> domain, and he's ready to redirect it to the sourceforge location so we
> have a decent URL for people to find (since pigs will probably fly
> before Wes will do anything with his domains except sit on them).
Great! If anyone has a nice logo or anything, now is the time to bring it
up...
> We're also ready to write up some killer press releases (it's one of the
> things we like doing), when your work is ready for a more public
> consumption, specifically ready for a renumbering to 1.5 (and I think it
> ought to be 'netatalk 1.5', effectively severing it from the umich
> umbilical). I'd suggest sending such releases regularly to sites like
> linuxtoday.com, linux weekly news, macintouch/macnn/macweek.
Also excellent! Please let me know when you want to get those ready for
release. Someone just informed me of the amazingly PAPER BAG error that I
had in one of my Makefile.am's that caused megatron to fail build (It's so
amazingly stupid that I will not bother to mention it here). Beyond that,
I want to put in as many existing patches as possible, then bug test it on
a few systems.
> I'd also like to help with suggestions in regards to the RPM
> configurations/functionality, as much as possible. Since I work as a
> consultant and I have access to various situations/software/hardware
> configurations, I'd like to help it out as much as possible.
>
> I also run netatalk on x86 boxes, as well as linuxppc boxes.
>
> My suggestion is to provide RPMs for the following platforms:
> - x86/386 (RedHat)
> - x86/586 (Mandrake)
> - PPC (Yellow Dog/LinuxPPC)
>
> If you can help/explain to me how to make the RPM, I can do those on my
> PPC boxes.
I have an RPM spec that I had for the previous tree. I suppose that it is
very close to useless at this point. Supposedly the automake/autoconf
configuration will allow it to automagically build on almost any platform
that supports automake/autoconf.... but I will prepare an all-encompassing
spec file for any people that want to RPM package it.
Now all we need are some debian people... :)
> We should encourage others to contribute packages for:
>
> - StormLinux
> - Debian
> - FreeBSD
> - Solaris (since there are tons of people with regular questions about
> SOlaris on those).
>
> Not sure who we can solicit for help on those.
I'm pretty sure that as soon as netatalk 1.5 is ready, every distribution
will jump on the packaging for it. That is, if we can make it work.
I'm figuring on a week or two for 1.5, if everyone gets their intended
patches for it in pretty soon. (Bugfixes would be *most* appreciated, but
added functionality never hurt...)
Thanks,
jeff
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jeff b
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university communications
university of connecticut
jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu
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