Bug 960719

Summary:	No upstream
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Williamson (Red Hat non-Fedora) <awilliam>
Component:	rdate	Assignee:	Honza Horak <hhorak>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	hhorak
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Fixed In Version:	openrdate-1.2-2.fc19	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-06-12 03:31:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	967517
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Description Adam Williamson (Red Hat non-Fedora) 2013-05-07 18:41:24 UTC

So, from the spec file, it looks like our 'rdate' implementation was written years ago by someone who no longer works for Red Hat, Elliot Lee.

The given URL for the app and for the source tarball no longer works - ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/ does not exist. As there is no functional upstream, we are carrying multiple patches in the Fedora package, even though 'we' (RH) wrote the damn thing in the first place!

This seems kinda silly. 'thrice' on IRC points out that there is an implementation called openrdate:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrdate/

which is a standalone packaging of the OpenBSD implementation. It's an active upstream that is currently maintained, and various other distros use it. If we really still need an rdate implementation, perhaps we should use that one?

Comment 1 Honza Horak 2013-05-27 10:40:06 UTC

Thanks for this tip. I've just sent a package review for openrdate:
bug #967517

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-06-03 12:32:32 UTC

openrdate-1.2-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openrdate-1.2-2.fc19

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-06-05 02:35:18 UTC

openrdate-1.2-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-06-12 03:31:48 UTC

openrdate-1.2-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.