[Pkg-netatalk-devel] 2.2.5-2+deb9u1 on Buster

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Chris (and cc Thomas Kaiser),

Quoting Chris Parana (2020-12-09 21:01:13)
> I’m trying to use my Pi 4 as a AppleTalk server. I need the classic 
> protocol to work, and that doesn’t seem to be the case with 3.1.12 on 
> Buster. Is there a way to get this to work on Buster?

Funny you should bring this up now: Just yesterday I stumbled upon this 
article by Thomas Kaiser about reviving netatalk 2.x on a Debian 
derivative: 
https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/blob/master/articles/Netatalk_2.2_on_Ubuntu_Focal_Fossa.md

When I read that article, I wondered a) why Thomas didn't reach to the 
author of the Debian netatalk package like you now did, and b) if it 
really was needed to totally ditch the package and instead build from 
upstream source as he did.

I would suggest to first try install the most recent official Debian 
build of Netatalk 2.x: https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/netatalk/

(If you don't actually use Debian but Raspbian or Armbian then it might 
still work to use the above package...)

If you not only need AppleTalk but also the DHX UAM (required for 
ancient Mac hardware that cannot run recent enough MacOS with support 
for DHX2), then you will need to rebuild from source to link with 
OpenSSL, as documented here: 
https://salsa.debian.org/netatalk-team/netatalk/-/blob/debian/2.2.6-3/debian/README.source

Please do share here, whether or not you succeed at using the older 
Debian package - as-is or rebuilt.

Alternatively, you could try follow the guide from Thomas Kaiser (but 
unless you need DHX as described above, you should not need to mess with 
applying OpenSSL patches, but can instead _avoid_ that linkages).


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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