Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Hangs when capturing starts

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

> Try installing the source (I think the SRPM is, irritatingly enough,
> named "tcpdump-3.4" or something, with "libpcap" and "tcpdump" bundled
> into it, rather than there being separate SRPMs with names corresponding
> to the names of the RPMs) and, after applying the patches in the SRPM
> (or is there some way in Red Hat to install an SRPM and get the patches
> applied automatically?), try applying the attached patch (which is a
> variant of our standard patch, as described in the "README.linux" file
> in the source tree, for the Red Hat 6.1 version of "libpcap").

This turned out to be pretty easy.  I was able to install the tcpdump
SRPM, drop the patch into SOURCES, and modify the spec file accordingly.  
>From there I created a modified SRPM, as well as binary packages for the
Intel and SPARC platforms.  I did this for the RH 6.0 and 6.1
distributions.  The files are in http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald if
anyone wants to try them out.

Now that I think of it, I should have appended '-ethereal' to the package
name, similar to the way Mandrake appends '-mdk' to their packages, just
to avoid confusion.  I'll try to do that this evening.