From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Rename netkitbase and netkittelnet
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:32:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131214183232.04cea60b@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACjG4B+HvDwZ-SQ8QE0oSH2zd7tZF73=T=4ayYHqg-GW4GMDKg@mail.gmail.com>
Dear arnaud aujon,
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:51:45 +0100, arnaud aujon wrote:
> Ok, so netkitbase provides 2 binaries : inetd which can be replaced by
> xinetd and ping that is provided by busybox (is there another package
> providing it ?)
There is iputils, but we don't have a package for it in Buildroot (I
have one in a private branch, just haven't had the time to clean it up
to upstream it). It provides, amongst others, the full-featured ping
implementation.
> For netkittelnet, again busybox provides a telnet client.
> So Config.in.legacy should be updated by something like that :
>
> config BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITBASE
> bool "netkitbase has been removed"
> select BR2_LEGACY
> help
> The 'netkitbase' package has been removed, since it
> has been deprecated since 2012.11. This package provided 'inetd'
> which
> is replaced by 'xinet' and 'ping' which is replaced by 'busybox' or
> 'fping'.
>
> config BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITTELNET
> bool "netkittelnet has been removed"
> select BR2_LEGACY
> help
> The 'netkittelnet' package has been removed, since it
> has been deprecated since 2012.11. 'busybox' provides a telnet client
> and
> should be used instead.
>
> But should we automatically select a replacement or let the user decide
> what to do ?
Normally, we select things automatically, when there is a direct match.
In this case, I believe there isn't really a direct complete match, so
I would personally suggest to not select something automatically.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-14 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 8:55 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Rename netkitbase and netkittelnet Arnaud Aujon
2013-10-24 13:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-24 14:58 ` arnaud aujon
2013-12-03 8:47 ` arnaud aujon
2013-12-03 9:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-12-13 17:51 ` arnaud aujon
2013-12-14 17:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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