outdated packages in rawhide
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Fri Jan 9 14:04:40 UTC 2004
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:16:46AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Please add netatalk to this list. Rawhide has 1.5.5-9, but latest is
> 1.6.x. 1.6.x implements the latest version of the AFP over TCP/IP
> protocol that MacOS X talks natively. It allows features like
Nice
> Unfortuately the netatalk related kernel module has been added to
> kernel-unsupported last I checked, so does this mean that netatalk is
> set for deprecation? Contrary to what many non-Mac people think, AFP is
> NOT that weird old AppleTalk that didn't use TCP/IP. It is a modern
> protocol now that works quite well for Macs. In my experience, with the
> exception of AFP routing [1], netatalk is much easier to manage than
> Samba, and with far fewer problems.
The kernel module deals with localtalk and ethertalk link layers primarily.
> netatalk works OUT OF THE BOX for most people with full capability...
> unless you have multiple interfaces that you want it to talk on. Then
> it is extremely difficult to figure out because of its extremely poor
> documentation, and the fact that I know nothing about the AFP protocol.
Addison Wesley: Inside Appletalk
It doesnt cover the latest extensions but it covers the rest (for my sins
I was involved in the netatalk port to Linux)
Alan
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