On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sat May 25, 2002 at 01:26:28PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > > > On Sun May 19, 2002 at 09:51:41PM +0200, Yves Duret wrote: > > > I was thinking about it, yes, but discussion with others decided that > > > two FTP servers was enough for Mandrake (I agree), and my preferred > > > solution of removing wu-ftpd in favour of vsftpd was not well > > > received. =) > > > > > IMHO I think it is a good idea to keep wu-ftpd in distrib for some reasons: > > - - historic reason > > - - as I know, only wu-ftpd permit to download on the fly .tar and or .gz. > > > > I know wu-ftpd is not the best ftp server, perharps keeping it in contrib. > > wu-ftpd and anonftp would definately be kept in contribs. Historical > reasons doesn't really fly with me... AFAIC, if someone can run an FTP > server, they can download the source and build it themself if they > can't be bothered to use something decent (yes, I am displaying some > anti-wu-ftpd sentiment here). > > I don't know about the .tar/.gz thing... doesn't proftpd do anything > like that? > The only issue I have with moving wu-ftpd to contribs is I just added it to the Requires for lsb. The LSB tests look for /etc/ftpusers, which wu-ftpd provided. Does vsftpd also provide this mechanism? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
