On 14.1.2014 22:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We removed inetutils from BLFS some time ago. I have been looking at > the new inetutils for LFS and note that it installs ifconfig if not > disabled (we do disable it). The other place for ifconfig is net-tools > and that package seems to be unmaintained (We install CVS_20101030 in BLFS). > > We can install ifconfig in LFS in inetutils by adding one line: > > #define PATH_PROCNET_DEV "/proc/net/dev" to ifconfig/system/linux.c. > > I'm inclined to do this because the output format of ifconfig is useful > and it makes the version of ifconfig the maintained instance. > > Thoughts? > > -- Bruce >
ifconfig is deprecated anyways. I doubt it can be said that it is maintained just because new versions of inetutils are released often than net-tools, especially since inetutils contains more than just ifconfig. net-utils are required for virtuoso in BLFS, but other than that, I see no use for it. ip can already do everything ifconfig does and more. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
