Re: outdated packages in rawhide

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:16:46AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Please add netatalk to this list.  Rawhide has 1.5.5-9, but latest is 
> 1.6.x.  1.6.x implements the latest version of the AFP over TCP/IP 
> protocol that MacOS X talks natively.  It allows features like 

Nice

> Unfortuately the netatalk related kernel module has been added to 
> kernel-unsupported last I checked, so does this mean that netatalk is 
> set for deprecation?  Contrary to what many non-Mac people think, AFP is 
> NOT that weird old AppleTalk that didn't use TCP/IP.  It is a modern 
> protocol now that works quite well for Macs.  In my experience, with the 
> exception of AFP routing [1], netatalk is much easier to manage than 
> Samba, and with far fewer problems.

The kernel module deals with localtalk and ethertalk link layers primarily.

> netatalk works OUT OF THE BOX for most people with full capability... 
> unless you have multiple interfaces that you want it to talk on.  Then 
> it is extremely difficult to figure out because of its extremely poor 
> documentation, and the fact that I know nothing about the AFP protocol. 

Addison Wesley: Inside Appletalk 

It doesnt cover the latest extensions but it covers the rest (for my sins
I was involved in the netatalk port to Linux)

Alan