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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:36:17
Message-Id: 1341866074.21191.0.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:06 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
2 > On 07/08/2012 08:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
4 > > Pacho Ramos<pacho@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
7 > >>> Il 08/07/2012 20:13, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn ha scritto:
8 > >>>> Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
9 > >>>> users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.
10 > >>> Here it is:
11 > >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
12 > >>>
13 > >>> And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
14 > >>> pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
15 > >>> netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
16 > >>> bad code.
17 > >>>
18 > >>> I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
19 > >>> though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
20 > >>> stay as it is.
21 > >>>
22 > >> If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
23 > >> replacement, I would still go to treeclean it
24 > > But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
25 > > might think twice.
26 > >
27 > >
28 > > jer
29 > >
30 > I have several ubiquity routerstations (the hardware in questions) and
31 > I've asked Robin Kauffman to report the steps to reproduce in the bug.
32 > I'll try to get to the bottom of why tftp-hpa doesn't work.
33 >
34 > --Tony
35 >
36
37 I thought it has a replacement, if not, ok to keep

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