From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: iana-etc Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:33:09 +0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2368707858642123487==" List-Id: --===============2368707858642123487== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Adolf, > On 14 Feb 2022, at 13:48, Adolf Belka wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 >=20 > I have noticed that iana-etc on IPFire was last updated in 2011. >=20 > It appears that iana no longer provided a versioned form of their data. How= ever I have found a github location that has setup an automated versioning sc= ript to automatically create a versioned source file roughly every week. >=20 > This is https://github.com/Mic92/iana-etc and the source file has the /etc/= services and /etc/protocols files ready available to copy to the installation= locations. Yes, it looks like this is the source for LFS as well: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/packages.ht= ml > Another alternative is Arch Linux who run a process once a month to downloa= d the .xml files and then run some gawk scripts to strip all the stuff that i= s not required for a list of the services and protocols. Arch Linux stores bo= th the text versions and the xml versions of the services and protocols in th= e OS. Since the project you linked is releasing tarballs on a regular basis, I woul= d just go with those. > Looking at the two above options the one from Mic92 seems to be the easier = options as that provides both the text and xml versions and so the LFS file w= ould only need to copy the text versions to the correct location. Agreed. -Michael >=20 >=20 > Feedback on the best approach to use for this? >=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Adolf. >=20 >=20 --===============2368707858642123487==--