Subject: pkgsrc's tcpdump / libpcap
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: iMil <imil@home.imil.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/10/2004 09:57:53
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Hi list,

I was playing around with pkgsrc's tcpdump / libpcap and I noticed
some weird things :

1. pkgsrc's tcpdump links over system's libpcap (it doesn't even check
pkgsrc's libpcap presence)
2. pkgsrc's libpcap only produces a libpcap.a
3. it's really outdated (0.7.2)

so, if nobody sees any offense here, I'd be glad to commit a new tcpdump /
libpcap package to WIP. If so, I'd like to have your opinion on a
UPDATE_INTREE_(PCAP|TCPDUMP) flags, so system pcap/tcpdump is updated by
pkgsrc ones.

Regards,

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