[Buildroot] [PATCH] Rename netkitbase and netkittelnet
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Dec 14 17:32:32 UTC 2013
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
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