Re: Error compiling ircd-hybrid-7.2.3 on Debian 5.0

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Steffan Wood wrote:

> I got ircd-hybrid from their website, and the latest version.
> What will be different if I get ircd-hybrid from apt?

a. different version number:

$ rmadison ircd-hybrid
ircd-hybrid | 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-3 |     etch-m68k | source, m68k
ircd-hybrid | 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-3 |     oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
ircd-hybrid | 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-4 |        stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
ircd-hybrid | 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-6 |       testing | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
ircd-hybrid | 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-6 |      unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

I'm not familiar with that package so I can't really tell what important
fixes got in or not.

Any reason you want ircd-hybrid specifically?

b. That it is tested to build on a Debian system
b1. That you don't even have to build it :-)

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