On Friday 09 January 2004 03:41, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2004, at 1:49 AM, Gene C. wrote:
> > I found that SUSE has built nessus and libnasl for the AMD64 (x86_64).
> > Their
> > rpms seem to have a lot of "64 bit cleanup" recorded in the rpm
> > changelog.
> > Their current version is 2.0.7.
> >
> > Have they fed any of their updates back to you?
>
> No, of course not. Linux distros don't bother to send patches to little
> people
> like the original authors of the software.
>
> If they did their patching cleanly, there should be a set of patches in
> the SRPM - if
> you have it at hand, I'd be interested in it.
You can get the src.rpms directly from
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/9.0/suse/src I looked at at least one of their patches and it looks like they are fooling
with some of the stuff that I am getting warning messages about. At this
point, I have no idea how many of the patches deal with AMD64 problems and
how many are just tailoring to the SUSE environment.
I am running an early (read alpha) version of Fedora Core for the x86_64 and
the SUSE rpms do not build directly on this system so I will need to examine
the patches carefully to apply them to the rpms I have. If the patches do
not easily fit, I may need to back off down to 2.0.7 to get the patches
integrated and then move them up to 2.0.9 after I get something working. I
just hope I do not have to hand-edit a lot of stuff since that takes lots of
time.
As an aside, the Fedora Core (Red Hat) objective is to have a minimum of
patches and have the upstream folks fix problems. Red Hat and other
community folks involved with the Fedora Project and Fedora Core will work
with upstream folks to fix problems but do not want to carry bug-fix patches
that really belong upstream. Case in point was the gcc problem. Jakub
Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com) worked with me to identify the problem. He
developed a patch but then fed to patch into the upstream gcc project. I got
the patch from the upstream project, applied it, rebuilt the gcc rpms and now
have a working gcc on the x86_64 system.
--
Gene