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[PATCH core-updates 0/3] nologin and ifconfig profile conflicts

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Message #41 received at 30734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 30734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] gnu: net-tools: Don't
 install 'ifconfig'.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:22:36 +0100

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> Sure, either that or rename it to “ifconfig.net-tools” (I think Debian
>> sometimes does things like this.)
>>
>> But, isc-dhcp depends on net-tools, and it might have scripts that
>> depend on its ifconfig, for instance.  Same for virtuoso-ose, isc-bind,
>> iodine, and more.
>>
>> So all in all, your suggestion may be safer, though we should check
>> whether these things break.
>
> I like renaming it better than moving to 'sbin'.  I'll try out some of
> the dependent packages and see what needs to be done.  Would it be okay
> to switch to GNU Inetutils for those that require 'ifconfig'?

Sure.  I think we’ll have to actually run the those tools (isc-dhcp,
etc.) to check whether their scripts work well with GNU ifconfig, though.

Ludo’.

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