Net-tools-CVS_20101030 ovewrites ifconfig and hostname installed in LFS

[Armin K]

Should be disabled or what.

[bdubbs@…]

We should probably just drop the package. The utils I use are ifconfig, route, and netstat. I can use ip for route and ss for netstat. ifconfig is a part of iproute2 (is that new), so I don't need any of the other tools.

Others may have a different opinion.

[Armin K]

wicd still uses it for mii-tool from what I've seen. That's why I installed it in the first place.

[bdubbs@…]

I took a look at the Makefile and almost everything is hard coded. We can suppress building ifconfig and hostname fairly easily, but the Makefile does:

   install -m 0755 hostname   ${BASEDIR}/bin
   install -m 0755 ifconfig   ${BASEDIR}/sbin

   ln -fs hostname $(BASEDIR)/bin/dnsdomainname
   ln -fs hostname $(BASEDIR)/bin/ypdomainname
   ln -fs hostname $(BASEDIR)/bin/nisdomainname
   ln -fs hostname $(BASEDIR)/bin/domainname
ifeq ($(HAVE_AFDECnet),1)
   ln -fs hostname $(BASEDIR)/bin/nodename
endif

If all these are suppressed, then the installation of the man pages needs to be adjusted to not install everything. For mii-tool, it might just be easier to do:

gcc -o mii-tool -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -I ./include -fno-strict-aliasing \
    -D_GNU_SOURCE  mii-tool.c

cp -v mii-tool /sbin
cp -v man/en_US/mii-tool.8 /usr/share/man/man8

[bdubbs@…]

Created a patch to avoid installing hostname, symbolic links to hostname, ifconfig, and their man pages.

Fixed at revision 12801.