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
-- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
