Re: tcpdump 4.0.0rc3 and libpcap 1.0.0rc3 now available

[Ken Bantoft <ken () netfunctional ca>]

I'll put those in shortly.. Still need mcr to sign them.



On 27-Oct-08, at 19:56, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Ken Bantoft wrote:
>
> > I uploaded Release Candidate 3 to http://www.tcpdump.org/beta this  
> > afternoon - only changes since rc2 are Guy's revised man pages for  
> > libpcap - nothing changed in tcpdump (other than the version#).
> >
> > If there continues to be no complains, I'll issue Tcpdump 4.0.0 and  
> > 1.0.0 finals on Monday.
>
> There are 1.0.0 and 4.0.0 tarballs, but in the /beta directory.  Is  
> that rc3 or the final release?  The VERSION files don't say "rc3".
>
> I've checked into the libpcap 1.0 branch some changes since those  
> tarballs were made:
>
>    1) getting the VERSION file from $(srcdir) when constructing  
> shared library version numbers;
>
>    2) filtering characters other than digits and "." out of the  
> contents of VERSION when making an OS X current_version string;
>
>    3) fixing the man page section numbers for some OSes;
>
>    4) pcap-linktype man page changes to distinguish between DLT_  
> values and the values in libpcap file headers (there are a few cases  
> where, for compatibility with various BSDs, the DLT_ values are  
> different from the value in the file header);
>
>    5) a pcap-savefile man page change to refer to the pcap-linktype  
> page (that's one reason for the previous change);
>
> and I've checked into the tcpdump 4.0 branch a change since those  
> tarballs were made:
>
>    generating tcpdump.1 from the configure script, so that  
> references to pcap-filter refer to it with the appropriate section  
> number (along with configure-script changes taken from the libpcap  
> configure script to choose the section numbers).
>
> If those aren't in 1.0.0/4.0.0, that's not fatal.
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