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

[Samuel Younge]

It think having a separate package for every tcp/ip tool is a bit of an overkill and inconvenient to install. 

I think it makes more sense to build the tcp/ip base suite.   Maybe in a package called pkg:/network/tcpip

On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
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