On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:34:28AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 09:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > While working for an updated ipcalc to support ipv6 transparently, I > > > figured we have more tools which are not IPv6-ready and awkwardly > > > provide an additional tool with a -6 suffix, supposedly for separate > > > IPv6 support. That looks like a relic of the past, we still drag. IPv6 > > > support should be transparent in programs (fortunately we don't have > > > ssh6). Any objection to fill bugs to merge the following tools with > > > their ipv4 equivalent? > > > > > > ping6, geoiplookup6, tracepath6, traceroute6 > > > > While I agree with your assessment of the separate tools, I think > > you're better off filing bugs with the upstream projects. > > I'm interested in what fedora ships rather than the upstream project per > se. Fedora ships whatever upstream ships. Big changes like integrating separate programs together should be made upstream. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects > The fedora maintainer may chose to switch to another upstream > project if that is required. Are there other such projects that have all the features of current ping/traceroute/etc but integrate the tools together? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct