someone more knowledgeable needed to pick up update of net-tools

someone more knowledgeable needed to pick up update of net-tools

[Adolf Belka]

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Hi all,


I saw that net-tools-1.60 was from Oct 2011 and that net-tools-2.10 had been released in Jan 2021 so I had a look at updating it.

However, there are 5 patches applied to net-tools. I had a look at the patches and the new source files are different at the locations  to be patched but quite different from what the patches apply.

It could be that the files have had the patch fixes applied but in a different approach to how the patches did it. If the patch fixes still need to be applied then the patches need to be updated as the source files are now different in the locations to be patched.

Either way I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to determine or do any of that. Someone else will need to pick this package update up.


Regards,

Adolf.

Re: someone more knowledgeable needed to pick up update of net-tools

[Michael Tremer]

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Hi,

Did you try building them without the patches? They are all build fixes except the “no hostname” patch which removes the “hostname” command which comes from coreutils instead.

-Michael

> On 6 Feb 2021, at 17:26, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I saw that net-tools-1.60 was from Oct 2011 and that net-tools-2.10 had been released in Jan 2021 so I had a look at updating it.
> 
> However, there are 5 patches applied to net-tools. I had a look at the patches and the new source files are different at the locations  to be patched but quite different from what the patches apply.
> 
> It could be that the files have had the patch fixes applied but in a different approach to how the patches did it. If the patch fixes still need to be applied then the patches need to be updated as the source files are now different in the locations to be patched.
> 
> Either way I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to determine or do any of that. Someone else will need to pick this package update up.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 

Re: someone more knowledgeable needed to pick up update of net-tools

[Adolf Belka]

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Hi Michael,

On 06/02/2021 18:47, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did you try building them without the patches? They are all build fixes except the “no hostname” patch which removes the “hostname” command which comes from coreutils instead.

No I didn't. Everything looked so different I just wasn't sure but your suggestion to just give it a go is a reasonable one. If it works then everything is fine. If not then someone needs to do something.

 From your comment I still need to keep the no hostname patch but modify it to just remove all lines related to hostname in the makefile. I think I can do that. I will have a go at it and if it works then I will send in the patch. If not then I will follow up on this email.

Thanks for the guidance.

Adolf.
> 
> -Michael
> 
>> On 6 Feb 2021, at 17:26, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I saw that net-tools-1.60 was from Oct 2011 and that net-tools-2.10 had been released in Jan 2021 so I had a look at updating it.
>>
>> However, there are 5 patches applied to net-tools. I had a look at the patches and the new source files are different at the locations  to be patched but quite different from what the patches apply.
>>
>> It could be that the files have had the patch fixes applied but in a different approach to how the patches did it. If the patch fixes still need to be applied then the patches need to be updated as the source files are now different in the locations to be patched.
>>
>> Either way I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to determine or do any of that. Someone else will need to pick this package update up.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adolf.
>>
>