Riverstones and RANCID

'john heasley' heas at shrubbery.net
Wed Jan 7 03:01:46 UTC 2004


Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:44:31PM +0300, Alexander Voropay:
> Hi!
> 
> >It is (will be) included in rancid 2-3.  you are welcome to try the EFT
> image here:
> >	ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/outgoing/rancid-2.3.eft5.tar.gz
> 
>  Could you rename the RANCID's 'rename' utility too ?
> 
>  It conflicts with RedHat's '/usr/bin/rename' from the "util-linux"
> package (system).
> This "util-linux" also includes "/bin/login" "/sbin/clock" e.t.c. so, it
> is very hard
> to recompile/remove this package. So, RANCID incompatible with
> RedHat-based
> systems...

we're not sure which solution we'll choose, but 'rename' will not appear
in 2.3.

> P.S. I'm trying to create a ~good~ "rancid.spec" file to build RANCID as
> RPM.
> I've renamed 'rename' to 'rancid-rename' now.
> 
> P.P.S. Will you update rancid's web-page
> http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/  to new version ?

it current points to 2.2.2 & patches; when 2.3 is released, it will be
updated.



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