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in FS#12281, we could add inetutils to the repo to replace, among other things, the netkit-* packages which are no longer maintained upstream and mostly orphaned.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. ================== --enable-ftpd N/A --enable-inetd Could replace xinetd --enable-rexecd Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-rlogind Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-rshd Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-syslogd Could replace sysklogd partially : syslogd --enable-talkd N/A --enable-telnetd Could replace netkit-telnet --enable-tftpd Could replace netkit-tftp (a xinet daemon) Could replace tftp-hpa (a rc.d daemon) --enable-uucpd N/A --enable-ftp Could replace netkit-ftp --enable-ping Could replace iputils partially : ping --enable-ping6 Could replace iputils partially : ping6 --enable-rcp Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-rlogin Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-rsh Could replace netkit-rsh --enable-logger Could replace util-linux-ng partially : logger --enable-talk N/A --enable-telnet Could replace netkit-telnet (a xinet daemon) --enable-tftp Could replace netkit-tftp Could replace tftp-hpa --enable-whois Could replace whois --enable-ifconfig Could replace net-tools partially : ifconfig ================== 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. 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? 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. BTW, I don't have any experience with several of these clients/servers, so help in creating the deamon file (especially the xinetd ones) or testing might be necessary. FTR, I have a rough PKGBUILD draft if someone is interested.. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.