On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:18:43PM -0400, Tod Detre wrote: > ATM is a networking protocol. It's at the same level as Ethernet and > token-ring. Although it's not very common, it's in wide use on my campus > (CWRU). I want to build a package or set of packages to make it easier for > people here. It'll involve modules for the kernel, daemons (atmsigd, ilmid, > etc), and scripts to load/unload the daemons. What I want to know is should > I split it into several pakages (atm-core, atm-lec, atm-les, atm-clip, etc) > or should I put it all in one big package? How many upstream source packages are there? The only places I can see logically splitting things would be the ATM drivers, and the IP over ATM support (does linux support anything else?) Possibly you split up SVC and PVC support, but I can't imagine that the packages are all that large so it probably wouldn't be worth it. > The other problem is that atm > requires newer kernels (the newest version I think needs 2.3.12). It's been done before. Make a note in the description. Mike Stone
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