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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:20 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        fenner@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...
Message-ID:  <20031002001920.GF660@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F7B20E5.6010301@he.iki.fi>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:45:57PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> How often is "so often"? The vendor branch is over a year old and the 
> bug that seems to annoy
> most real users of bpf  has been known for quite a while longer and took 
> a while to get into
> the origin and now it only would need to be imported once.
> 
> Or is there some larger issues I´m missing or is everybody asking the 
> same thing for
> the same reason and a single update would "calm down" the chatter?

Well, I'm thinking I'd like to be able to use ports to install a package
of a recent tcpdump snapshot, as code of my own is in there now and I
use it regularly with a project I'm working on. ports support would be
beneficial (no need to mess around with cvs checkouts all the time, use
a known good snapshot to build a package, unless hacking on tcpdump/pcap).

tcpdump/pcap reside in vendor branches which other committers can't touch,
the rules of the road are that re@ have the final say, and specific people
have responsibility for the vendor branches.

ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who
want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined
to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not?

BMS



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