[sles-beta] Vsftpd in the DVDs

[Andrew Foulsham]

I can understand the Server / Desktop split of packages, but I too like
the ability to install from the binary RPMs rather than compiling and
installing from source.
I've just checked, and vsftpd is available from the Build service at
http://software.opensuse.org/package/vsftpd (including packages compiled
against SLE 11 sp1), but admittedly older versions that are currently
listed as "broken". So that's not really a viable route until their
builds succeed.

Best wishes,

Andrew


On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 15:39 +0000, Cruz, Kennie (HPC CoE) wrote:
> I use SLED as my main desktop on daily basis (work). I do use an ftp daemon to share code, documents with peers that still rely on commercial UNIX systems. I find it faster than NFS/SMB.
> 
> Still, you can get the sources and compile. I don't see a need for the binary to be part of the distro.
> 
> Kennie Cruz
> HPC System Engineer
> High Performance Computing CoE
>  
> 787-503-2704
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thorsten Kukuk [mailto:kukuk at suse.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:35 AM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com <sles-beta at lists.suse.com>
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Vsftpd in the DVDs
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, jrd wrote:
> 
> > 	It seems that vsftpd is not getting fair treatment in the SLE distribution 
> > suite. The binary RPM is present for SLES, absent for SLED, absent in the 
> > source RPMs in the SDK (so far as I can tell).
> 
> I don't understand.
> 
> Why should be a FTP daemon part of the Desktop?
> And why should the source RPM be on the SDK?
> If the binary RPM is on SLES, the sources are on SLES, too,
> where they should be. And they are there.
> 
> So I don't understand your complains.
> 
>   Thorsten
> 


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