2775 – SILC [ client | server ] needs to be upgraded

Bug 2775 - SILC [ client | server ] needs to be upgraded

Summary: SILC [ client | server ] needs to be upgraded

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:	http://silcnet.org
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Reported:	2002-05-16 08:04 UTC by Phil Bordelon (sunflare)
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-05-16 08:04:32 UTC

SILC [Client|Server|Toolkit] v0.9 came out last night.  Yeah, that's nice. 
However, protocol changes from 0.8.6 [and certainly 0.7.6.2, the version in the
Portage tree] make it impossible to connect to the SILC servers now.  This
basically means that SILC is useless in the mainline, unless you're running your
own server.

It would be nice to be able to connect to the primary SILCnet again without
resorting to such drastic tactics as installing a tarball. -shiver-

Comment 1 Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-05-17 18:23:30 UTC

I just tried hacking an ebuild that would upgrade this, by basically editing the
ebuild already in the portage tree.  However, nowadays irssi uses perlstuff, and
it wants to write in the perl library directories.  The SILC client is based on
irssi, so now it violates the sanctity of the sandbox.  Argh.  My ebuild-fu is
definitely too low to figure this one out at the moment.

Comment 2 Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-05-17 22:45:34 UTC

See bug 2815 for an attempt at an ebuild for this.

Comment 3 Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-05-19 19:25:46 UTC

FIXED now that 2815 is committed.