[rancid] Re: patch expect with expect-hack1

[john heasley]

Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:16:45PM +0000, Ryan West:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:06 PM
> > To: Ryan West
> > Cc: Smokeping slt; heas at shrubbery.net; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: patch expect with expect-hack1
> > 
> > Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:59:08PM +0000, Ryan West:
> > > Smoke,
> > >
> > > It's my understanding that expect => 5.4.3 is fine, you shouldn't need to
> > apply the patch.
> > 
> > that is not my understanding, but i am not a linux user and have just
> > blindly kept the patch for solaris.  however, i didnt notice anything
> > in the changelogs for expect or tcl that seemed like they'd have been
> > a fix for the hanging problem.
> > 
> > but, i dont have time to teach source patching, so
> > ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid:
> > 
> > 419691 May 14 15:57 expect-5.43.0.tar.bz2
> > 421271 May 14 15:59 expect-5.43.0_hack.tar.bz2
> > 3653369 May 14 15:57 tcl8.4.18-src.tar.gz
> > 
> > expect w/ the hack applied and its associated tcl, which I know works on
> > solaris, freebsd and netbsd.
> > 
> 
> Has anyone successfully compiled the expect hack for 5.43 on Linux?

either of those patches should work.  the solaris one, while slower,
should work for either and is technically more programmatically clean.