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

[Albert Lee]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> 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
>

The latter seems reasonable to me as well (it makes "pkg install ping"
DTRT). I have a question about who will provide the SUNWbip SVR4
metadata when this happens (although it's unlikely to actually cause a
missed dependency in real life)..

-Albert