Created attachment 381332 [details] A modified .spec file for dictd Attached a modified .spec file with the following changes: - Split package to dictd and dictd-client packages so people can install the client without the server functionality. - The daemon has code to test the existance of 'dictd' user and fall back to 'nobody' only if it's not found. It's best not to overload different roles (e.g: NFS) on this user. Therefore, we add/remove 'dictd' user+group during install/uninstall according to fedora policy. [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation] - Create and own a default configuration file. The default file let the daemon start correctly even before it has any dictionaries. - By default listen only on 127.0.0.1 (secure by default) - Default directory for dictionaries (datadir) is now /usr/share/dict/dictd, as we don't want to pollute /usr/share. - Add the examples directory to the documentation Before using the suggested .spec file, a uid for dictd should be allocated in: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry And the correct value updated in the spec file (tentatively set to 51). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Changes done against dictd-1.11.0-5.fc12.i686
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* No response from maintainer yet. * The original dictd package in F-14 repo is still the one built in F-12 :-( * My suggested improved .spec file from F-12 still rebuild without modification on F-14 (with same software version) * Bumped release of this bug-report to F-14, in hope that maintainer would notice.
Sorry, I'm quite busy atm with other stuff. Would you like to become co-maintainer so that you can check in your changes and build packages with your fix ? Otherwise I'll try to find some spare minutes next week to fix this...
> Would you like to become co-maintainer so that you can check in your changes and build packages with your fix ? Sure, no-problem. While we're at it I can bump to current version (1.11.2). Just let me know any details and I'll try to push it into rawhide first.
I've added most of your changes in dictd-1.12.0-1.fc16, although I did it the other way: I've added a dictd-server subpackage and kept the main dictd packages as the client as that's what most people are looking for.