drftpd in gentoo

ghosterius · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: drftpd in gentoo

Well... I was seeking ftpd's, i usually use pure-ftpd since I feel confortable with it and fits my needs... though a few days ago I was travelling around... and I found out this drftpd wich is kinda impressive... allows you to have a lot of features that pure-ftpd just don't have...

full natd support,
fxp support in his best,
personalized login messages,
infos about the uploads and downloads,
nice RAID/LVM support...

etc...

since Gentoo is generalistic and has a lot of nice ftpds... why not add this one to the "collection" of available packs?
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codergeek42 · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:21 am Post subject:

If you'd like to see it in Portage, please submit an enhancement request bug for it on Gentoo's Bugzilla. It's even simpler for the developers if you could try to create an ebuild for it as well, perhaps basing it on the ebuild for a related program.

Hope that helps!

Edit: I searched for "ALL drftpd" and received no results, so it's very likely that no such request has yet been made.
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ghosterius · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tip! I will work on that ebuild then

Hopefully I'll make out something nice and sweet for other gentoo users that might be interested in this fantastic FTPD

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spuniun · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 72

As a drFTPd administrator, I've wrestled with the idea of getting it into the Portage tree quite a bit. The problem lies in the nature of drFTPd being such a circumstance-dependant service, that each and every user will require extremely different configurations requiring edits of dependancy classes and additions of various plugin classes. There is truly no generic way to deploy drFTPd and it would require a miriad of new USE flags just to handle the basic scope of possible install variations which would just result in portage cruft.

As it truly only takes 3 or 4 minutes to deploy a stand-alone drFTPd server (with a local slave only) I don't think there is enough benefit to bringing it into portage.

Kalidarn · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

I doubt useflags are too difficult, some things have massive amounts of useflagage.

There is an open request for it on the bug tracker here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/153793 it would be nice because it could then be covered by the GLSA.