Subj : BinkD and SRIF
To   : mark lewis
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Sun Sep 06 2015 04:30 pm

  Re: BinkD and SRIF
  By: mark lewis to Eric Renfro on Sun Sep 06 2015 01:42 pm

 ML> 06 Sep 15 02:59, you wrote to me:

 ML>>> if you would like a copy of the srifreq file, let me know and i'll
 ML>>> send it over...

 ER>> I just downloaded the latest snapshot for binkd 1.1a73, so I'll be 
 ML> checking
 ER>> it out. I already made an updated .spec file for use with the new
 ER>> alpha, and just checking it to make sure I have it packaging up
 ER>> everything 
 ML> proper.
 ER>> I'm likely to upgrade, if it doesn't break anything. Because I'm
 ER>> packing, 
 ML> I
 ER>> can upgrade and roll back if it does break things, rather easily.

 ML> there ya go :)

Heh yeah. srif is in the source's misc directory, so I'll take a looksie there
to see what it's about.

I notice there's also a nodelist.pl file there, which I think I remember trying
to use in binkd 1.0.4 but it failed miserably. Still not sure what it does, but
if I understand it right, it did something with actual nodelist files without
having to convert them, did so within the perl functions natively at runtime
I'm guessing.

 ML>>> as for the versions of binkd, i have a couple of *nix boxen here...
 ML>>> one is running the packaged binkd for it, another is running a
 ML>>> slightly newer version from a repo snapshot and a 3rd one actually
 ML>>> has a clone/fork of the repo and gets a new version when i decide
 ML>>> to pull the latest updates and compile them...

 ER>> Yep. I'm packing everything my BBS runs into RPM packages that I can
 ER>> install and upgrade/downgrade as needed to maintain them. One of the
 ER>> many reasons I prefer CentOS/Fedora over Debian/Ubuntu, is the
 ER>> simple .spec file format is just the best and easiest to maintain.
 ER>> And to me, makes more sense. :)

 ML> i don't even mess with any of that stuff... i have things that i do not
 ML> want installed system wide and others that are OK for that... if i have
 ML> the sources i can decide how i want it installed and put it where i want
 ML> it to be ;) 

I'm a Senior Systems Engineer for Linux systems... I tend to keep my sanity
when I eat my own dogfood. :)

If I were on Windows, I wouldn't care so much, but when compiling source code
for Linux, I am very adamant about keeping things tidy and clean as possible,
which is why I'm also working on an rpm .spec to get and build Synchronet from
CVS source code as well. :)

I want to be able to upgrade Synchronet to the latest CVS snapshots, and
rollback when things break or so, with ease. 

Along with that, I also maintain my own home repo as well, with GPG signed RPMs
and all. Further than that, I actually have a full rpm mirror for CentOS 6, 7,
and Fedora 22, along with several 3rd party repos like EPEL. heh. Mostly that's
through SpaceWalk though. .

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