ITP: ProFTPD

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Mon May 19 20:12:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:22:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:42:17PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > I would like to contribute ProFTPD (http://www.proftpd.org/) to the
> > standard Cygwin distribution.  I still need to touch up the README
> > and do a little more testing, but the package is ready for voting
> > and verification.

I completed the first draft of the README and did some more testing.

See attached for the latest setup.hint file and the following for the
latest tarballs:

    http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-20030513-2.tar.bz2
    http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-20030513-2-src.tar.bz2

> I'd suggest three changes:
> 
> - Add an empty /var/proftpd directory or let the postinstall script
>   create it.

Done.

> - Remove the empty /usr/man/cat* directories.

Skipped.

> - Build against the latest libncurses7.

Done.

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:41:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:22:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > - Add an empty /var/proftpd directory or let the postinstall script
> > create it.
> 
> Oh, and chown it to system.admins in the postinstall script!
> Otherwise proftpd refuses to run.

Done.

OK, to upload?

Thanks,
Jason

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# $Id: setup.hint,v 1.3 2003/05/19 19:57:45 jt Exp $
sdesc: "A flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP Server"
ldesc: "ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security,
and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration
syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for
multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory
visibility."
category: Net
requires: ash cygwin libncurses7


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