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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:07:56
Message-Id: 4FFA2EAA.7090205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp by Jeroen Roovers
1 On 07/08/2012 08:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
2 > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos<pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
6 >>> Il 08/07/2012 20:13, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn ha scritto:
7 >>>> Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
8 >>>> users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.
9 >>> Here it is:
10 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
11 >>>
12 >>> And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
13 >>> pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
14 >>> netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
15 >>> bad code.
16 >>>
17 >>> I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
18 >>> though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
19 >>> stay as it is.
20 >>>
21 >> If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
22 >> replacement, I would still go to treeclean it
23 > But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
24 > might think twice.
25 >
26 >
27 > jer
28 >
29 I have several ubiquity routerstations (the hardware in questions) and
30 I've asked Robin Kauffman to report the steps to reproduce in the bug.
31 I'll try to get to the bottom of why tftp-hpa doesn't work.
32
33 --Tony
34
35 --
36 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
37 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>