[aur-general] no LLDP tools in [extra] or [community] :-/

[Ido Rosen]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 17:39, Ido Rosen wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
>>> On 23/07/2014 23:35, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>>> On 23/07/2014 15:59, Ido Rosen wrote:
>> That's fair, thank you for packaging lldpd!  I noticed RedHat no
>> longer seems to package ladvd, and has switched to lldpad.  Maybe we
>> should package lldpad (aka Open-LLDP) from http://www.open-lldp.org/ ?
>>  Thoughts?
>
> Background:
> - Last release one year ago (not so RERO)
> - Last commit un May 2014 (good)
> - The software is not in AUR. (nobody seems to have interest)
>
> I get all LLDP info (even proprietary protocols) with lldpd and the soft
> is well maintained.
> Although I would be happy to see him in community, I do not feel the
> need to maintain both. Do you see a technical reason to get both?

Well put.  I see no technical reason other than RHEL compatibility,
which isn't enough on its own.  Lldpd is working great, btw. :)

>
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