Skip to content
Commit 619a350e authored by Scott Worley's avatar Scott Worley Committed by Alyssa Ross
Browse files

nettools: 1.60_p20170221182432 -> 1.60_p20180626073013

Because _p2017... cannot be fetched: 404.

The change is minimal: Adjusting whether usage messages are printed to
stdout or stderr.

It's hard to find stable source links for nettools and we resort to
fetching patched sources out of other distros' tarball caches because
this package is deprecated:
  https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/
  https://lwn.net/Articles/710535/
  https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2

The advice is to switch to iproute2, but NixOS activation scripts use
`domainname` from nettools, for which neither iproute2 nor systemd
offers a replacement.  I inquired about this on iproute2's mailing list:
  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAPwpnyTDpkX2hxiqYLxTuMM38cq+whPSC0yoee-YPLEAwfvqpQ@mail.gmail.com/
parent 84497cab
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment