[distcc] Red Hat packaging patch for 0.15

Alexandre Oliva oliva at lsd.ic.unicamp.br
Fri Dec 13 20:51:00 GMT 2002


On Dec 13, 2002, "Terry Griffin" <terryg at axian.com> wrote:

> Find attached a patch that adds Red Hat-style xinetd and SysV-init scripts
> to the packaging subdirectory. By getting these in to the standard tarball
> I can get better turn-around time on Red Hat RPM packages for each new distcc
> release.

Eeek.  I'd *never* run distcc as a user as privileged as daemon.  If
anything, a new user should be created for distccd, and distccd should
run under permissions of that user.

> While I'm at it I'll mention that distcc 0.15 RPMS for Red Hat 7.x are now
> available at ftp://ftp.axian.com/pub/people/terryg/distcc/. RPMS for Red Hat
> 8.x should be available within the hour.

FWIW, I've been building distcc RPMS for 8.0 too, at
ftp://people.redhat.com/aoliva/rpms/8.0/

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