A new maintainer (Mike Jagdis) has taken over as diald maintainer
(see http://diald.unix.ch )
This is preumably (?) with the blessing of the original author, Eric Schenk,
though Eric does not appear to have publically state this (he has been
inactive as far as diald is concerned for quite a while).
Mike released diald-0.98. It is rapidly developing, and may not be
stable until it reaches 1.0.
The last "Eric Schenk" diald-0.16-5 is stable.
Note that diald-patch-0.16.5.gz is missing a patch for dctrl that was in
the 0.16.4 patch. Unfortunately, Eric deleted the 0.16-4 patch from
his ftp site, because 0.16-5 obsoleted it (Moral: dont delete the
old stuff, just archive it in an "old" subdirectory)
This patch fixed a race condition that makes dctrl unusable on some
systems.
It is restored in the diald-0.16-5a redhat contrib rpm release.
I have reposted this as diald16-0.16-5a to redhat contrib, as it was wiped out
by a rpm for diald-0.98-2 that someoone posted. (older rpms with the same
package name get deleted at redhats contrib site ....)
hope this clarifies things ....
On 02-Apr-99 Clark Briggs wrote:
> Ref: http://www.loonie.net/~eschenk/diald.html. It says "grab the file
> diald-patch-0.16.5.gz, which is the most recent patch. " Despite the text
> which says it modifies diald.c all the files and the README in it are about
> patching ppp versions 2.1.23, 2.2.0e and 2.2.0f.
>
> I'm still chasing the (apparently recent) problem of not compiling under RH
> 5.2. Dan Chapman (ref:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01887.html)
> said this patch was the answer. As did some one from micros50
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01910.html).
>
> Gary Mackay
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01888.html)
> said he found one that worked for kernel 2.2.4, but RH 5.2 installed with
> 2.0.36. That ref to diald.unix.ch gets versions like diald-0.98.3 but
> www.loonie.net is at version 0.16.5. what gives?
>
> ok comparing dates it looks like schenk moved from www.loonie.net where he
> was last Jan 98 with ver 0.16 to diald.unix.ch by Mar 99 with ver 0.98.
> There is even recent (mar99) traffic from Duncan Haldane
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01894.html)
> about v0.16! Duncan notes v0.98 isn't "fully stable" as his reason for
> reposting v0.16.
>
> The problem existed already (19Mar99) under the subject thread "compile
> problem" from John Abbot
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01821.html)
> where Kent Oyer told John to get the patches
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01831.html).
> Before that (16Mar99), Denis Voitenko
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/msg01790.html)
> had the same problem.
>
> Alright enough history. The archive
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-diald%40vger.rutgers.edu/) seems to
> present the threaded archive most recent first so I'm not going back
> farther in time.
>
> If you are still reading, is the right thing to do to use 0.98.3 on RedHat
> 5.2 kernel 2.0.36? I spent about 3 hours this afternoon trying to sort this
> out.
>
Try it. if it doesnt work yet, use the diald16-0.16.5a-2.i386.rpm
(and diald16-config-0.16.5a-2.i386.rpm) rpms from
ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386
(or mirrors listed at http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html )
duncan
(if you insist on a tarball build, get the source rpm and unpack it,
you will find the tarball and patches inside it)
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