[arch-dev-public] Replacing common network programs (netkit-*, etc} with GNU inetutils

[Eric Bélanger]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Eric Bélanger wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:46 -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>> --enable-tftpd
>>>> Could replace netkit-tftp (a xinet daemon)
>>>> Could replace tftp-hpa (a rc.d daemon)
>>> 
>>> Some broken Intel E100 nics can't netboot from a modern TFTP server that
>>> includes the blksize extension. I know OpenBSD's tftpd doesn't include
>>> that extension, and tftp-hpa has an option to disable that extension.
>>> I would be fine with replacing netkit-tftp, but replacing tftp-hpa is a
>>> no-go for me.
>> 
>> Yeah, when this came up, I think I mentioned that "tftp-hpa is needed
>> for something". I was thinking hardware support... if I remember
>> right, I think it was the only tftp that could push to my older WRT
>> router...
>> 
>> 
>
> Sure. If we enaable tftp/tftpd in inetutils, it will conflict with tftp-hpa 
> and we might not want that as someone might want to use both packages. We 
> should then disable tftp/tftpd in inetutils and keep tftp-hpa in the repo. As 
> to netkit-tftp, we could either keep it or remove it. Another messier 
> solution would be to enable tftp/tftpd in inetutils but to rename the 
> conflicting files (they would be the tftp client and its man page)
>

To get this going, I'll summarize. It looks like there is a general 
consensus of adding inetutils to replace some of the current packages 
(no-one objected yet) and to follow points A & B.  So we have:

- enabled:
ftp/ftpd
rexecd
rlogin/rlogind
rsh/rshd
rcp
talk/talkd
telnet/telnetd
uucpd

- disabled:
inetd
syslogd
tftp/tftpd
ping
ping6
logger
whois
ifconfig

Which means we will remove:
netkit-ftp
netkit-rsh
netkit-telnet

I also think that we should remove netkit-tftp unless it has 
functionnalities that tftp-hpa doesn't. It is orphaned and is less popular 
than tftp-hpa. Usage stats: tftp-hpa=4.15 % and netkit-tftp=1.11 %

I'll start working on a package containing the tools that I listed above 
as enabled. As there's plenty of daemon scripts to write and test, you have a good 1-2 
weeks to think about it and suggest changes.

Eric
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