>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> On Feb 17 01:25, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> | last conflicts with last from sysvinit-2.84-4
>>
>> This makes sense, but removing it from util-linux will require a
>> simultaneous rename of -4 to -5, otherwise /usr/bin/last will go missing
>> entirely.
> sysvinit has no maintainer for ages. We should just pull it from the
> distro if we don't find a maintainer this week. We can replace it with
> an empty package which has util-linux as dependency.
I like to take over sysvinit as I use it.
I just compiled the latest sysvinit-2.86. 'last' from sysvinit-2.86
doesn't compile anymore because cygwin lacks IPv6 support. So we could
live with 'last' from util-linux.
But first of all I have to test my build.
>> | logger conflicts with logger from inetutils-1.3.2-37
>>
>> Looking into this, Debian, Ubuntu, and LFS defer /usr/bin/logger to
>> util-linux. Also, inetutils-1.3 is ANCIENT, but I understand that there
>> are probably a lot of cygwin-specific patches involved. Any input from
>> the inetutils maintainer? (Corinna?)
> I won't update inetutils anymore, except for tiny fixes and packaging
> stuff. Actually I'd rather OBSOLETE it entirely. syslogd is replaced
> by syslog-ng and all other tools in inetutils are security holes all in
> itself. Barring that, I could create a new inetutils package which
> doesn't install logger. Logger has not even a single Cygwin specific
> patch in it.
> So, here's the choice:
> 1. Remove logger from inetutils.
+1
> Corinna
Ciao
Volker
