[arch-general] Why is there no tftp client in inetutils?

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu May 20 13:59:03 EDT 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I need a tftp client in order to reflash my WRT54GL I realised that Arch
> Linux hasn't got one in the main repositories. Normally "tftp" is part of
> Inetutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/). Looking at the PKGBUILD of
> "inetutils" confuses me, as it explicitly disables tftp.
>
> I know that I can easily rebuild the package, but I'm wondering why it is
> disabled by default? At least you should provide a seperate tftp package, as
> there are certainly people who need a tftp client, for instance me ;).

tftp-hpa in [extra]


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