Someone recently posted a question about how they could use the ftp access method for dselect (dpkg-ftp) across a SOCKS 4.x firewall. I've wanted to do this for quite a while myself, and it seemed to me the shorted path would be to first create a perl package called 'RSocket' with the same functions/syntax as Socket and then just replace the 'use Socket' with 'use RSocket'. I'm positive this would work, but then I looked at the utilities for created dynalink (???) packages to object libraries and decided I'd have to wait until I had time to spend a few hours learning how to do this. Since that time I've had it in the back of my mind and then the other day I thought "Hey, wait a minute! Doesn't ELF just use the object symbols to perform dynamic linking? Couldn't I just make a SOCKS shared libraries with its socket calls renamed to be the same as the regular socket calls and put this in the front of my LD_LIBRARY_PATH before I run dpkg-ftp?" My suspicion is that this would not work unless I made a version of the entire C library to replace the one I have. Am I wrong? Has anyone made a SOCKS package for perl? Isn't there a better way?
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. Yes, I know if I were a *real* man I'd make that perl package and then make a new dpkg-ftp (dpkg-socks-ftp?) and share it with the rest of my debian brothers/sisters--I just don't have the time. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
