On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:34:28AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 09:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > While working for an updated ipcalc to support ipv6 transparently, I
> > figured we have more tools which are not IPv6-ready and awkwardly
> > provide an additional tool with a -6 suffix, supposedly for separate
> > IPv6 support. That looks like a relic of the past, we still drag. IPv6
> > support should be transparent in programs (fortunately we don't have
> > ssh6). Any objection to fill bugs to merge the following tools with
> > their ipv4 equivalent?
> >
> > ping6, geoiplookup6, tracepath6, traceroute6
>
> While I agree with your assessment of the separate tools, I think
> you're better off filing bugs with the upstream projects.
I'm interested in what fedora ships rather than the upstream project per
se.
Fedora ships whatever upstream ships. Big changes like integrating
separate programs together should be made upstream.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects
The fedora maintainer may chose to switch to another upstream
project if that is required.
Are there other such projects that have all the features of current
ping/traceroute/etc but integrate the tools together?
Rich.
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