tsclient for Fedora 15
Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 22:33
Hi everyone,
As most folks know, I do like to dabble in Linux. Lately, I've been trying Fedora 15 on a virtual machine - just to see what a cutting edge Linux is like.
One thing I miss from previous versions of Fedora is the old rdesktop GUI front-end called tsclient. That package has been deprecated in favor of newer RDP clients. But - I miss it anyway.
Well - I was able to take the SRPM for tsclient from Fedora 13, and add patches to get it to build in Fedora 15.
I don't think this will build on YDL per se - since it's based on RedHat Enterprise Linux - but the patch system is interesting. You basically unpack the SRPM, add your patches in the form of diff files to the SOURCE directory, edit the spec file to include them, and re-package and re-build the RPM and SRPM.
No muss - no fuss.
I've attached an archive here with the SRPM, a sample RPM, etc.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Paul
As most folks know, I do like to dabble in Linux. Lately, I've been trying Fedora 15 on a virtual machine - just to see what a cutting edge Linux is like.
One thing I miss from previous versions of Fedora is the old rdesktop GUI front-end called tsclient. That package has been deprecated in favor of newer RDP clients. But - I miss it anyway.
Well - I was able to take the SRPM for tsclient from Fedora 13, and add patches to get it to build in Fedora 15.
I don't think this will build on YDL per se - since it's based on RedHat Enterprise Linux - but the patch system is interesting. You basically unpack the SRPM, add your patches in the form of diff files to the SOURCE directory, edit the spec file to include them, and re-package and re-build the RPM and SRPM.
No muss - no fuss.
I've attached an archive here with the SRPM, a sample RPM, etc.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Paul