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Package: clonezilla
Version: 5.14.5-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm forwarding this one from https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/264
which I furthermore brought up at upstream at
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/437/.
When running clonezilla and choosing the remote-dest + restoredisk
options, and if netcat-openbsd is present and used as `nc`, its
execution fails with:
| OpenBSD netcat is not supported!
Quoting from clonezilla's source:
case "$ONTHEFLY_NET_PIPE" in
netcat)
# check if command is nc or netcat
if command -v nc &>/dev/null; then
NC_CMD="nc"
elif command -v netcat &>/dev/null; then
NC_CMD="netcat"
[...]
LC_ALL=C $NC_CMD -h > $nc_tmp 2>&1
if [ -n "$(grep -Ei "^OpenBSD" $nc_tmp)" ]; then
# netcat.openbsd won't exit if its option -N is not used. However,
# if it's used, it has an issue to receive from stdin in the destination
[ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_FAILURE
echo "OpenBSD netcat is not supported!" | tee --append ${OCS_LOGFILE}
[ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL
echo "$msg_program_stop!!"
exit 1
fi
Currently, the clonezilla package doesn't depend on neither
netcat-openbsd nor netcat-traditional.
I've discussed this with upstream at
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/437/ and our conclusion
is, that a check for nc.traditional should be added to clonezilla
source. Then the clonezilla package could depend/recommend/suggest
on netcat-traditional.
Reporting this to have a tracking issue also within Debian, as
promised towards upstream.
regards
-mika-
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The upstream version was uploaded as a debian package for some days.
Best regards, Georges.
Michael Prokop a écrit :
> It's now fixed upstream with
> https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/-/commit/640dbe42c1fdc8781d633edc256a35b925865887
> and therefor now checking for nc.traditional as I suggested.
>
> The fix is part of the v5.15.5 release of clonezilla,
> so once the clonezilla Debian package gets updated, this
> issue can be fixed together with a depend/recommend/suggest on
> netcat-traditional.
>
> regards
> -mika-
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