Dear Loren, On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Loren Bandiera wrote: > I actually wanted to release .debs of sussen with the 0.4 release, but I > couldn't find a way to make .debs on a Gentoo box. A really dodgy way of doing it is to run alien on RPMs to convert them, but the packages produced are not policy compliant and will not be accepted for upload into Debian. > We do have Debian boxes here, but they are servers and putting X/Gnome > on them to just to compile sussen isn't really feasible. Take a look into pbuilder. It's a chroot for building Debian packages without contaminating the rest of the system. > Anyway, I don't know how you are coming along with the packaging, but if > we can be of any assistance let us know. I'm still in the middle of my uni assessment period, so I've been really busy. I took a closer look at building sussen today and I've come to the conclusion that I won't be able to get it working in Debian very soon. Please improve your dependency detection during ./configure! Configure did not complain about any missing build dependencies, I still had to manually install the following one-by-one through trial and error until sussen finally built itself: libgnet-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcap-dev libssl-dev libwrap0-dev nessus-dev The major hurdle I have at the moment is getting Sussen to interact with Debian's default MySQL server configuration which has innobase support disabled. I've only ever used PostgreSQL myself, so I don't have a clue yet as to what minimal settings are required to get Sussen running (eg. users, permissions). Will Sussen start up the MySQL server manually if it hasn't been launched from /etc/init.d? Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Yours sincerely, Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau Computer Science & Student Rep, UNSW * * # apt-get into it Debian GNU/Linux Package Maintainer * * <netsnipe(+)debianplanet.org\0> <alau(+)cse.unsw.edu.au\0> * * 1024D/2E8B68BD: 0B77 73D0 4F3B F286 63F1 9F4A 9B24 C07D 2E8B 68BD * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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