[illumos-Developer] Moving /usr/sbin/ping out of pkg:/network/ftp

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'd prefer to see ping delivered in its own package, rather than adding
to the mess that is SUNWcs.  Since you're touching the code now, why not
do it right?  I recommend *either* network/diagnostic to hold both ping
and traceroute, or separate network/diagnostic/ping
network/diagnostic/traceroute packages.  (I don't much care which,
although I have a slight preference for the latter if only so that we
can later have homes for things like network/diagnostic/wireshark or
whatever.)  Although now that I look, I see we have
"/diagnostic/tcpdump", without the /network prefix... maybe richlowe has
a preference here?

	- Garrett

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 17:04 +1100, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> SUNWbip (Basic IP utilities) has only contained /usr/bin/ftp and
> /usr/sbin/ping for some time. It was renamed to pkg:/network/ftp which
> essentially hides the fact that it contains an unrelated utility -
> ping.
> 
> /usr/sbin/traceroute is currently delivered in SUNWcs so I propose
> moving /usr/sbin/ping from network/ftp to SUNWcs for the time being.
> If/when SUNWcs is split up in the future both ping and traceroute can
> hopefully go to the same home (as similar ICMP/network diag utilities)
> wherever that may be.
> 
> 
> Detail and proposed fix in this issue:
>      https://www.illumos.org/issues/371
> 
> Thoughts?
>