Hi Noah, On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 10:32 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:29:22PM +0300, Boian Bonev wrote: > > I would like to propose a patch with alternatives support. > > > > Before doing this there are some things to confirm: > > > > - are you willing to accept such a patch? > > It seems reasonable. I have a vague (and possibly mistaken) memory > that > I looked in to doing this a number of years ago and found that it > would > not be appropriate to use alternatives for these two programs. I > don't > remember the reasoning and I haven't managed to find any record of > this, > though.
The first possibly problematic thing that I see is that iputils-arping is installed in /usr/bin/ while arping is installed in /usr/sbin/ I believe that this should be solved by installing a link from /usr/bin/arping to /usr/sbin/arping; and make the alternative be /usr/sbin/arping The second would be in case the maintainers of arping refuse to accept a patch or implement alternatives support. > I'd like to determine more definitively whether my memory is accurate > or > not before we proceed with this work, so please give me some time. Sure, I didn't prepare the patch yet - it would be pointless without confirmation... With best regards, b.
