From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25621 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 23:18:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Dec 2003 23:18:03 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AbT7j-0006RC-Bq for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:18:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 20154 invoked by uid 50004); 30 Dec 2003 22:28:25 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7121 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 22:28:24 +0000 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:21:32 -0500 From: Jason Wever To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20031230172132.138bd129@enterprise.weeve.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__30_Dec_2003_17_21_32_-0500_61POScXjY0i5Kv6S" Subject: [gentoo-dev] overlapping rarpd files dilemna X-Archives-Salt: ceb0f372-f413-41ad-9266-0b6cd5604620 X-Archives-Hash: 244a7e4460b88ce84f09f193dd8ba8f3 --Signature=_Tue__30_Dec_2003_17_21_32_-0500_61POScXjY0i5Kv6S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, In attempting to write a netboot-howto for netboot based sparc installs, I found that there are two packages which provide rarpd and the associated man page. These two packages are net-misc/iputils and net-misc/rarpd Merlin, ~Kumba and I were discussing this a couple nights ago, and a few items of note came up. 1) while both rarpds provide the same functionality, they are separate programs, with each having some individual features the other doesn't. 2) net-misc/iputils is a system profile package, so if a blocking solution were used, you could never emerge net-misc/rarpd We didn't manage to come up with a way that seemed to be a clincher to solve this, but a few suggestions were; 1) Adjust the net-misc/iputils ebuild to install rarpd as iputils-rarpd 2) Remove net-misc/rarpd 3) Have the ebuilds be blocking, so they can't both be installed at the same time. As you'll note, options 2 and 3 have pretty much the same effect. So I'm throwing it out to you folks for comments/opinions/suggestions/etc Cheers, -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead --Signature=_Tue__30_Dec_2003_17_21_32_-0500_61POScXjY0i5Kv6S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8fwMdKvgdVioq28RAg0SAKCKz8EUouHLmSFr5j/EVBcJp384IACbBku2 hx4SvuQj6eAWujkHDa+3uLg= =D5a8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__30_Dec_2003_17_21_32_-0500_61POScXjY0i5Kv6S--