On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Eric Bélanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
Hi,
As suggested in FS#12281, we could add inetutils to the repo to replace, among other things, the netkit-* packages which are no longer maintained upstream and mostly orphaned. Inetutils could potentially replace several packages either entirely or partially. Here is a list of network tool that inetutils can provide and the corresponding packages that it might replace. Discussion is below the list.
Point A) If we decide to not replace parts of packages in the repo, then we disable syslogd, ping, ping6, logger and ifconfig. Point B) From Greg comments in FR, we should keep the current xinetd (best inet implementation) and whois (actively maintained) standalone packages. So we disable inetd and whois.
Let me know if you agree/disagree on following Point A & B.
A: I feel like we should leave ping/ping6 where they are (unless these are drastically improved versions, which I doubt). Same with the other things you named- I'd rather keep those out of it. B: xinetd seems like a good inetd implementation, so I would stick with it being standalone.
Other points of discussion:
tftp: inetutils'tftp is to be run via xinetd like netkit-tftp. tftp-hpa uses a rc.d daemon script. I don't know what is best and if it's something we should worry about. In fact, I don't know anything about xinetd so I'll need to read docs to get the daemon setup correctly. Does anyone has experience in xinetd-style daemon script?
About the talk{d}: we recently moved netkit-talk to unsupported. Do we build them in inetutils?
Since it all comes in one package, it probably wouldn't hurt to build it.
ftpd: do we add the ftp daemon? We already have several of these (probably better ones) in extra. There won't be any conflict so we could still add it.
uucpd: I don't know what it does. Do we add it?
Basically, this thread is to discuss if we add inetutils in the repo (probably in core as netkit-tenet is in core) and what tools the inetutils package should contain, i.e. what package should be replaced by it.
Of the big list, I would vote for the following: ftp/ftpd, r*, telnet/telnetd, tftp/tftpd, uucp/uucpd (maybe?)