#437 Provide support for netcat-openbsd

[Michael Prokop]

Hi!

Forwarding this from https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/264

When netcat-openbsd is present instead of netcat-traditional, then clonezilla fails with:

OpenBSD netcat is not supported!
Program terminated!!!

Would be great if netcat-openbsd could be supported as well, as it's very common among powerusers and upstream development seems to be more active.

Thanks for consideration!

PS: sorry, was trying to report this under feature-requests, but only get 403/Forbidden error there.

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your feedback.
The netcat from OpenBSD used to have an issue to receive data from stdin in the destination node when the opton "-N" is used.
I am not sure if the issue has gone or is still there.
So any reason you have to use netcat from OpenBSD? If so, which function you want to use with Clonezilla?

[Michael Prokop]

So any reason you have to use netcat from OpenBSD? If so, which function you want to use with Clonezilla?

Yes, netcat-openbsd is what's shipped on the Grml live system, so netcat-traditional isn't available there.

The problem appears when starting clonezilla , choosing remote-dest and going for the restoredisk option there.

Would be nice if clonezilla wouldn't abort there, otherwise I think we'd have to add an according Conflicts: netcat-openbsd in the Debian package of clonezilla, though this would also prevent clonezilla from being installed on systems where netcat-openbsd is present.

[Steven Shiau]

If you are sure the netcat-openbsd (version >= 234) works in the remote-dest function of Clonezilla in your case, definitely we can remove that check.
Hence please confirm that. Thanks.

[Michael Prokop]

I'm not the actual user but forwarding this from https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/264, but I'll try to get this confirmed/verified, will keep you posted