Monday 1st May 2006
Local Packages
Wrestled with proftpd quite a bit. I noticed that Matthias' packages in Fedora Extras used the new DSO mechanism to split off modules that introduced significant additional dependencies into their own subpackages. Following this lead, I enabled just about all of the bundled modules, split off separate packages for ldap, mysql, postgresql, and tls, and then stuffed all the other non-default modules into an extras subpackage. The one that caused the most trouble was mod_facl, which prevented anonymous logins on my firewall box when enabled, and won't actually build on most older distributions because of broken libacl packages. The new version also includes a new ftpdctl tool (rather like rndc for named), so more SELinux policy updates will be needed for this.