Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Ping Downgraded from 1.2.15 to 1.4

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradlee Landis [mailto:bra...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:04 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Ping Downgraded from 1.2.15 to 1.4
> 
> Just out of curiosity, did DL intentionally downgrade the ping
> utility, or was it done upstream at LFS? On 1.4RC1, it returns this
> version number: "ping - GNU inetutils 1.5", while on 1.2.15, it
> returns this: "ping utility, iputils-ss020927". The version in
> iputils
> seems to be better to me. It includes a flag for broadcast (-b) and
> interface (-I) and both are features that I would like to make use
> of,
> but neither are in inetutils.
> 
> I'm kind of disappointed in inetutils, as it is a program by GNU.
> iputils seems to be run by a single person, and hasn't been updated
> in
> a few years, but it seems to be better just from the options list.

We switch it last year November from inetutils back to iputils.
Use RC3, it has a lot of fixes compared to RC1 and RC2.


Heiko