Some RPM packages

Intro

I wanted to share some of the packages I have tweaked/created in order to install them on my Linux systems (I use Red Hat Linux).

The reason behind preparing them is one of

• I could not find the software in RPM form.
• The RPM package existed but it seemed to me it was not maintained anymore.
• I felt the update cycle for RPM package(s) was long.

This is the place where I will publish them.

Please feel free to report bugs/send patches/etc. in order to enhance them. The same applies to the pages of the site and my poor english.

Preparation/build environment

• Red Hat 6.2 Linux (this is the version I'm using now in my building and production systems at home and at work; but I think they must work in posterior versions, especially if you recompile the source RPMs so the rpm macros (%{_tmppath}, %{_mandir}, %{_docdir}) used in the spec files get replaced with the correct values for your system (Red Hat is in the way to follow more closely the FHS so some paths are going to change and this is a good way of isolate the packaging process from this).
• All official security advisories, bug fixes and package enhancements made available by Red Hat in the form of updated RPMs applied.
• rpm 3.0.5 (actually, it is one of the required package enhancements listed in the Red Hat official errata for Red Hat Linux 6.2 since Aug 2000).

Available packages

I hope being able to put on-line some more soon.

• Cyrus IMAP/POP server An high performance and very scalable mail store and retrieval system from Carnegie Mellon University.

• Cistron RADIUS server A free implementation of a RADIUS server by Miquel van Smoorenburg.

• Modified RHL 6.2 packages Updated RPMs of some packages (initscripts, sndconfig, kudzu, mkinitrd) that read/modify /etc/conf.modules to avoid problems when upgrading to the modutils version in the official errata from Red Hat.

  For installation/rebuilding instructions follow some of the links above because the process is very similar.

• db3 RPM packages of the db3 Berkeley embedded database system from SleepyCat. The packages are identical to the ones for RHL 6.x you can find on www.rpm.org (I thing they prepare/maintain them to help people trying rpm 4 on these systems so they are doing a favor to those of us wanting to install Cyrus IMAPd on Red Hat Linux 6.2 because it also needs db3 ;-) plus a little specfile fix.

  For installation/rebuilding instructions follow some of the links above because the process is very similar.

  NOTE: These rpm packages are obsolete because Red Hat has recently published official rpm packages of db3. See
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2001-015.html.

• drac RPM packages of the drac (Dynamic Relay Authorization Control) daemon. For more information visit http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/.

GPG public key

You can download my GPG public key, which I used to sign some of the rpm packages (I will sign the rest soon uploading new releases) from here.

Changes (to this page)

* Tue Jul 17 2001
- http://validator.w3.org/ validation service passed.

* Mon Jul 16 2001
- Remove PHP-Nuke packages. No worth maintaining.
- Remove XtRadius packages. It was more a branch from the offcial  proyect
  motivated by a personal need. The new official distribution contains
  the same changes and many more enhancements.
- Add link to GPG publik key used to sign some of the packages.

* Fri Mar 30 2001
- Remove db3 packages. Red Hat published recently official db3 rpms for RHL 6.2.

* Mon Mar 12 2001
- Add drac packages.

* Thu Mar  1 2001
- Add db3 packages.

* Wed Feb 28 2001
- Move the conf.modules packages description to other page and put a link to it here.

* Wed Feb 21 2001
- Upload and add mkinitrd to the list of packages re-touched for the conf.modules issue.