On 2019-07-21 12:10, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-07-21 06:59, Jon Turney wrote: >> On 21/07/2019 00:15, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> I would like to offer to package mtr: >>> >>> combines the function of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in one network >>> diagnostic tool. >>> >>> Investigates the network connection between the host it runs on and a >>> user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each >>> network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO >>> requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each >>> machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each >>> machine. >>> >>> It is available under all RedHat, Debian, BSD, Arch, Slack, SuSE, and >>> other Linux flavours: >>> https://pkgs.org/download/mtr >>> >>> Control files, sources, and binaries are available under the mtr folder: >>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jxeYZ10mYhmz8YhwE3EOXvd-lVwd176o >>> >>> See the project home page for more information: >>> http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ >> >> A couple of minor nits: >> >> mtr is be built with a gtk+ interface for displaying results, if present, but >> you've omitted the from DEPENDS. >> >> Not sure what you intend, so either (i) explicitly configure --without-gtk, >> or >> (ii) add the needed gtk devel package(s) to DEPENDS. > > I don't currently run X under Cygwin 32, and many will not, because of memory > limits, and did not know whether it might just fail on such systems. > I will bite the bullet, and see how rebase does. > >> After I build this, 'mtr -v' reports 'mtr UNKNOWN' > > Good catch - wondered what that was meant to be - tests pass! > Will look into that, and get back when updated to X and that. > >> Otherwise, looks good.
Built with gtk2.0-devel installed now requires libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 libglib2.0_0 libgtk2.0_0 which probably drags a lot of X in. Is there a standard way to offer subpackages with and without X in these cases? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
