[arch-projects] [PATCH 0/2] iproute2 migration

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> I'm resubmitting my work of migrating to iproute2 from net-tools at Tom's
> request. It's pretty much the same, but with the feedback from Dan, I've added
> some extremely simple deprecation logic to yell at the user when he or she is
> still using the net-tools variables.

Thanks! This is very much appreciated!

> - yp-tools is currently in extra. we would need to bring this into core in order
>  to support setting a domainname, and remove the symlinks to hostname from the
>  net-tools package.

Question: What is the use-case of setting the domainname in the
absence of yp-tools? Is this common? Would it be acceptable to keep
yp-tools in extra? (I wouldn't be opposed moving it to core, I'd just
like to understand the reasons).

Maybe you should get in touch wit the net-tools/yp-tools/coreutils
maintainers (whoever they are) to get their sign-off's on this?

Cheers,

Tom