Re: DNS broken in 5.21

[Till Maas <opensource () till name>]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:28:57AM +0100, Simon John wrote:
> On 01/29/2010 10:33 PM, Fyodor wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > That is a good idea on an individual basis to get Nmap, but it sort of
> > defautes the purpose our our distributing RPMs in the first place.  If
> > our RPMs don't work for all/most people on that platform, we should
> > see what we can do to fix it.  Fedora 12 is the latest release of one
> > of the most popular Linux distributions, so surely many people here
> > are running it. 
>
> Yes I agree, I've always gone to insecure.org for nmap releases as the
> Fedora/CentOS ones are usually quite far behind, plus its nice to
> download the RPM's once, rather than via YUM for every machine.

If you want to just download the Fedora rpm, then you can use
"yumdownloader nmap". yumdownloader is in yum-utils.

> I spoke to the F12 packager and he is going to make official 5.21 RPM's
> on Monday, he did say that all F-nn RPM's are compiled on F-nn machines,
> so I fear the fix is to move your build environment to Fedora.

You can also use the OpenSUSE build service to build individual RPMs for
individual distributions:
http://de.opensuse.org/Build_Service

> There are already working RPM's here, backported from F13 I believe:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1951408

It just the Fedora nmap.spec from version 5.00 updated to 5.21 with
minor fixes to rebase a patch and add the new localized manpages.

Regards
Till

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