is mgetty being maintained?

Don Russell fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Sun Apr 8 17:00:49 UTC 2007


dragoran wrote:
> Don Russell wrote:
>>
>> I got the source code for 1.1.35 and based on reading the C code, 
>> verified the bug I found has not been fixed yet.
>>
>> So, what I'd like to do is get the source for the older version as 
>> used by Fedora Core 6 and test a change... How/where can I get the 
>> source for the version in Fedora 6 without downloading the entire CD 
>> of source code? 
> you only have to download the src rpm :
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/

OK... I d/l that and installed it with
    rpm -i mgetty*.rpm

I now see a whole bunch o' stuff in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ relating to 
several versions of mgetty.

So, that's the first hurdle....

What do I need to do to get to a point where I can"make" (make install) 
mgetty? (Or where are there some instructions on doing this?)

I want to "make install" the existing version with no changes to make 
sure I have the process correct. Then I will make my code changes and 
"make install" again to test it....

THEN I can attach the diff file to my bugzilla report, and perhaps take 
the next step toward getting a newer version of mgetty into FC6 (or FC7)

Thank you.




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