Bundling up alternative packages

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 09:19:42 +0100, Michael Schwendt
<fedora at wir-sind-cool.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:32:26 -0700, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> 
> > I am working on bundling up a lot of software (SNORT, ACID, BASE,
> > tcptrack, rt/rtir, etc). We are using an alternative version of
> > libpcap worked on by Phil Wood (cpw at lanl.gov) who puts in better
> > statistics and uses an MMAP for better capturing. I was wondering what
> > the best way of packaging up an alternative libpcap would be for
> > extras or if it would be wanted?
> >
> > Also is someone else doing this that I might be stepping on their toes?
> 
> Since libpcap is a package in Fedora Core, an "alternative version"
> would be a replacement for the Core package and hence does not fit
> into the definition of Fedora Extras. It would fit into the definition
> of Fedora Alternatives [1] or any similar sub-project which may be
> opened in the future.
> 

Ok thanks for the info. From that I should make the SNORT and other
tools compiled against the normal pcap if they should be in extras.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator