Re: Deprecated net-tools? Mass bug filing?

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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 09:16:27PM +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't mind removing dependencies on net-tools, as long as there
> > still exists these commands in the default install:
> >
> > netstat
> > arp
> > ifconfig
> > route
> 
> AFAIK, busybox (as configured in Fedora) has some of those commands,
> eg: busybox ifconfig
> 
> It can call the right command when symlinked.

Thanks.  That could be a viable option if net-tools is somehow
undesireable compared to busybox, but it depends on what we are trying
to accomplish.

- Package sizes are below 1MB in both cases.

- Busybox has no requires, but net-tools only requires glibc

- Maybe Busybox's tools are better maintained than old net-tools?

# dnf repoquery --requires busybox
Last metadata expiration check: 2:05:44 ago on Wed May 17 14:32:39 2017.

# dnf repoquery --requires net-tools
Last metadata expiration check: 2:05:46 ago on Wed May 17 14:32:39 2017.
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libselinux.so.1()(64bit)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
rtld(GNU_HASH)
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