On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 06:18 -0800, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote:
> There's a bit of a mess with protocols/services in the latest builds
> from IANA-ETC.
>
> 1) They require that Python-3 be installed, because you need to
> generate
> these files in these latest releases by running a script 'update.py',
> instead of just being given them in the release.
>
> 2) The Python-3 script has a bug in the use of an obsolete method
> name
> that needs fixing.
>
> 3) The generated services/protocols files are set to permission 600
> instead of the proper 644 - which is really annoying, because if
> these
> permissions are retained (such as in an original copy to /etc, where
> the
> files do not previously exist) - then programs that are not run as
> root
> cannot read these files, which means that they get weird errors such
> as
> 'unknown protocol tcp' or 'unknown service this-or-that'. Determining
> that the cause of these errors are too-strict permissions on the
> protocols and services file is not the easiest thing in the world to
> do.
>
> Net-net, here is the little script I wrote to handle this situation:
>
> sed -i 's?getiterator?iter?g' update.py
> python3 update.py out
> cp -v out/dist/{protocols,services} /etc
> chmod -v u+w,a+r /etc/{protocols,services}
> ls -l /etc/{protocols,services}
>
> -Joel
Not sure what you are talking about. I've downloaded the latest release
iana-etc-20201110.tar.gz, and the services and protocols files are
present.
It seems that there is a tag 20201019, which only contains the .xml
files and update.py. But this one is not said to be a release.
Pierre
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