On 23 August 2015 at 19:51, William Harrington <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:28:20 -0500
> Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm open to disabling ping/ping6 in inetutils and adding another package
> > to replace them, but I need to get someone to figure the procedure (I
> > can do the xml).  The iputils package does not ship built man pages or
> > documentation and they cannot be built in the LFS environment.  They
> > would need to be built externally and have LFS include them in a
> > separate tarball like we used to do with eudev.
>
> Hello Bruce,
>
> CLFS has been installing iputils for a long time. You can refer to the
> following page for more information regarding the installation. The last
> patch was created from upstream fixes over a year ago. Some distros may
> have more patches for it.
>
> http://clfs.org/view/git/x86/final-system/iputils.html
>

I think that version only has ping and not ping6.  The github version is
the latest with more IPv6 tools.  I have a combined ping/ping6 .gz man page
here but I thought that Bruce said that there was a problem with compressed
man pages in LFS.

Richard
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