Subject: bug#34835: closed (Re: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package)

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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:15:02 +0000

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#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: mikadoZero <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:14:12 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:48:19PM -0400, mikadoZero wrote:
> In system.scm in the definition of %base-packages there is iproute but
> if I search for it there is no package with that name.

The package is named 'iproute2' but the Scheme variable, which is what
%base-packages is a list of, is named 'iproute'.

Subject: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package
From: mikadoZero <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:48:19 -0400
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guix describe:
guix 1bc24bb
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 1bc24bbf00e21a26d9eb71e5c89d941812dcdad7

which iproute:
iproute not found

In system.scm in the definition of %base-packages there is iproute but
if I search for it there is no package with that name.
Output of `guix package -s iproute`:

name: iproute2
version: 4.20.0
outputs: out
systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux aarch64-linux mips64el-linux
dependencies: [email-masked] [email-masked] [email-masked] [email-masked] [email-masked]
location: gnu/packages/linux.scm:1254:2
homepage: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2
license: GPL 2+
synopsis: Utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic in Linux  
description: Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP
+ networking and traffic with the Linux kernel.  The most important of these are
+ `ip', which configures IPv4 and IPv6, and `tc' for traffic control.
+ 
+ Most network configuration manuals still refer to ifconfig and route as the
+ primary network configuration tools, but ifconfig is known to behave inadequately
+ in modern network environments, and both should be deprecated.
relevance: 6

name: ghc-iproute
version: 1.7.5
outputs: out
systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux
dependencies: [email-masked] [email-masked] [email-masked]
+ [email-masked]
location: gnu/packages/haskell.scm:2834:2
homepage: https://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/iproute/
license: Modified BSD
synopsis: IP routing table  
description: IP Routing Table is a tree of IP ranges to search one of them on the
+ longest match base.  It is a kind of TRIE with one way branching removed.  Both
+ IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
relevance: 4