[ARGUS] cleanup pcap vs bpf, add clients RPM

[slif at bellsouth.net]

Patches included this time!

> From: <slif at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2004/10/01 Fri AM 08:58:31 EDT
> To: Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com>
> CC: Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ARGUS] cleanup pcap vs bpf, add clients RPM
> 
> Hi, Carter.   I've reissued all of the patches individually.
> I've honored the community's use of /usr/local for the RPM packages.
> 
> Would you consider keeping the changes that may not be suitable
> for all platforms in your un-official patches repository ?
> Un-official because you likely would not approve something
> you haven't tested or won't support.
> 
> Carter Bullard wrote:
> > Hey Mike,
> > Many of the include file changes you are suggesting refer to
> > includes that are more historical than anything else, and apply to
> > older versions of os's like irix, hp and solaris, and of course
> > several older versions of linux.  I have no idea if your
> > suggested changes will break anything, and I don't have access
> > to all the machines that will need to be tested to assure that
> > we're not breaking something.
> 
> I believe this list discussed problems with naming bpf.h,
> and a realization that older libpcap header files are included
> in the project.  One of the patches removes those older pcap
> header files. Other patches make use of pcap.h, which is
> the recommended libpcap published header.
>  Nothing OS specific that I can see.
> 
> > 
> > So, should we change any of these things?  I'm not sure.  Are we
> > changing them because there is a real issue with these references
> > or is it just janitorial?
> 
> Deleting out-of-date pcap header files is better, I think.
> Install pcap and use the header files that it comes with.
> This will avoid any out-of-sync issues that may exist today.
> 
> > 
> > OK, we had the /usr argument years ago, and that was shot down,
> > so I don't see bringing that up again. I can add the rpm spec
> > file but without the /usr change?
> 
> The new patches use /usr/local
> 
> > 
> > I can see making sure that any major version number change
> > that we make has these changes in it.  So if you could break
> > out your patch so that at least one of them doesn't remove
> > anything then I can make your recommended changes.
> 
> 
> Thanks for ocnsidering them.
> If a patch isn't acceptable, knowing why not would be helpful.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> Sorry. I don't have time %^)
> 
> > 
> > Carter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>From: <slif at bellsouth.net>
> >>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:19:29 -0400
> >>To: <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> >>Subject: [ARGUS] cleanup pcap vs bpf, add clients RPM
> >>
> >>Here are two patches to 2.0.6.fixes.1 that were tested on:
> >>  Linux (Debian, Redhat 9, Fedora Core 2)
> >>  FreeBSD (4.9, 5.2.1)
> [SNIP gory details removed for brevity -Mike Slifcak]
> >>                 
> >>Regards,
> >>-Mike Slifcak
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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