[Fedora-directory-users] Binary Download links borken on main site -- Any mirrors?

[Richard Megginson]

Mike Jackson wrote:

> Jackson, Jon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to get ahold of the 1.0.2 binaries for FC4, but the
>> link is dead (and is dead for FC3/RHEL4, FC2/RHEL3).  Is there another
>> place to get these?  I've done some googling and can't seem to locate a
>> mirror.  And I can't seem to find a site maintainer's email address, so
>> I'm reaching out to the users.  How are you obtaining binaries?
>>
>> How finicky is the build process, If I were to build from the sources?
>> Do the sources include the recently released tools?
>
>
>
>  I built 1.0 from source with dsbuild, on my RHEL4 laptop, and it 
> worked for me (tm). The admin console is really fast now with apache, 
> compared to how it performed with the previous backend ns-httpd. I 
> mean to say that it is a major performance improvement. This is the 
> first time IMO that the admin console is actually "usable".

Note that 1.0 is not yet fully baked - that's why we dropped the 
download links.  So if it works for you, that's great.  If not, we'd 
really like to find out how/where it doesn't work.

>
>  I ran into one small hiccup while the admin server was building, 
> where it refused to build with jdk1.5.0.

What problems did you see?

> Dropping back to 1.4.2 solved the problem. Actually, I keep both of 
> them in /usr/java, and just move the jdk symlink back and forth as 
> needed. JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/java/jdk.
>
>  Note that you need httpd and httpd-devel packages on a RHEL/FC 
> machine before 1.0 will build with dsbuild, since apxs is required for 
> building mod_restart.
>
> BR,
> -- 
> mike
>
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