Inetutils-1.7

[Matthew Burgess]

Release announcement at ​http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2009-12/msg00133.html.

[Matthew Burgess]

A couple of notes on this one. Firstly, the server man page patch is no longer required; the migration to help2man for their man page generation resulted in the proper Makefile fragments to suppress installation of man pages for any binary not built.

Secondly, the logger program now looks pretty much the same as the one from util-linux-ng. Comparing the man pages, util-linux-ng supports:

-u sock  Write to socket as specified with socket instead of builtin sys-log routines
-d datagram  Use a datagram instead of a stream connection to this socket

On the Inetutils side, it supports:

-h  --host=HOST
       log to host instead of the default /dev/log

The easiest thing to do here is to keep the status quo, although I will note that, rather embarassingly, our explanation of '--disable-logger' needs adjusting from:

Do not install it because Util-linux installs a better version later.

to

Do not install it because Util-linux installed a version of logger earlier

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r9136.