Re: [Ethereal-users] developing support under RedHat

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Maier wrote:

> (1) I have opened the Ethereal link for RedHat source , where I found 
> the following message:
> "Do not use these RPMs! Use the ones from your vendor instead."
> Could you tell us what this it meaning.

It means "we haven't built and put onto the Ethereal site new Ethereal 
RPMs for a very long time; the ones we have here were are out-of-date - 
the newest Ethereal release there is 0.10.0a, but the current Ethereal 
release is 0.10.12 - so we don't want people downloading the RPMs from 
our site and then reporting bugs that were fixed a long time ago".

However, you *didn't* open the link for Red Hat source if you got that 
message.  You followed the link for Red Hat installable packages, which 
are binary packages.  The link for Ethereal source is the "Main site" 
link after "Source code", which goes to

	http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/

> (2) What Ethereal archive version for RedHat would you suggest for us to 
> use.

"None of the above".  Follow Ronnie's suggestion - you should, if 
possible, use anonymous SVN to get the current Subversion snapshot, or 
download a buildbot tarball of recent Subversion source if you can't use 
anonymous SVN, so that you're using up-to-date source.

If you plan to make your dissectors private plugins for Ethereal 
0.10.12, or to add them to 0.10.12 and distribute them internally, use 
the 0.10.12 source from the

	http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/

link, but if you plan to submit the dissectors to us for inclusion in 
future Ethereal releases, use the latest Ethereal source code you can.