On 23 August 2015 at 20:40, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Harrington wrote: > > Also IPV6 targets add ping6, but it also needs gcrypt or crypto >> support for MD5. So either openssl, gcrypt or both need to be >> installed before iputils for ping6. >> > > That's a deal breaker. The inetutils ping6 works without those packages. > This whole thing is because Richard does not want to add a 6 to a name in > /etc/hosts like: > > 127.0.1.1 turing > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback turing6 > > I'm not going to add multiple packages to just accommodate this. Users > are, of course, able to add the appropriate packages themselves. > I always understood *LFS to be, in the main, a teaching medium. If it's now acceptable to fix a bug in a program by manipulating host names then it's a sad state of affairs. A host name should be static across a complete system and not vary depending on whether IPv4 or IPv6 is being used. Actually, as I've already pointed out, a cleaner solution, in the interim, is to make sure that all IPv6 entries in /etc/hosts appear *before* the IPv4 entries. That procedure negates the effect of the bug. A note in the book to that effect, when creating /etc/hosts, would be simple and effective until a decision is finally made about which packages should be installed in the longer term. Richard
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