Re: [Ltib] upgrading tcpdump and libpcap

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 04:38 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Robert,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the information.  Is there any particular benefit in
> > > these newer packages that you know of?
> > >
> > > Regards, Stuart
> >
> >   i'm just working off of the tcpdump changelog here:
> >
> > http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-changes.txt
> >
> > there seems be sufficient improvement between 3.8.3 and 3.9.8 to add
> > a spec file for 3.9.8 since it requires no extra effort.  4.0.0, well,
> > that's a different story.  given time, i'll take a look at that later.
>
> You're right 3.9.8 is probably a good idea.  I'll get to it when I can,
> but that might be a while as I've got a lot of other things to track at
> the moment.

FWIW, i've been running it on a system here for the last couple days
and it seems to be functioning properly.

rday
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