2014-01-31 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>:

> Michael Uleysky wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I suggest two patches for the iana-etc, which solves the problem of
> > data updates from the IANA site.
>
> What problem is that?
>

iana-etc includes some scripts for downloading recent version of protocols
and services from IANA site. These scripts are unusable now because IANA
changes addresses and formats of its data. It is not a problem if you happy
with 5-years old data. Really, there is only one interesting change in new
IANA data - port numbers for dccp and sctp protocols in services file.


>
> The first patch is from LinHES project and
> > can be found here:
> >
> http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/repository/revisions/master/entry/abs/core/iana-etc/newer.patch
> > I added second patch to place short protocols and services descriptions
> in
> > output files.
> > Data update must be done by command
> > make get
> > before make and make install.
>
> Shouldn't this suggestion be made to the upstream maintainers?
>

It seems that upstream is dead.


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