Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:18:48 +0100 From: Jan Sucan <sucanjan@gmail.com> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Hiroki Sato <hrs@allbsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r351423 - in head: . sbin/ping6 sbin/ping6/tests Message-ID: <51e71914-98a8-2219-bbfa-c075d786e2fb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201911260057.xAQ0vH6W000351@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <201911260057.xAQ0vH6W000351@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On 26. 11. 2019 1:57, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:57 AM Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz> wrote: >> >>> On 26.08.19 06:28, Jan Sucan wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I can implement it. I suppose that ping6's manual page should be kept it >>>> this case. >>>> >>>> I was also thinking about printing a warning for each option renamed to >>>> lead a willing user to use the new unified option set of ping. It could >>>> be either only with -v, or by default and suppressed with -q. Or should >>>> the option translation be completely transparent? >>> Is there an update on this? I found out the hard way today, as I updated >>> my icinga2 host from an revision before this change to a current >>> revision. In this case it's not as easy as fixing a script e.g. >>> net-mgmt/monitoring-plugins check_ping command calls /sbin/ping6 with -X. >>> >>> Will we get a ping6 that is fully backward compatible, or should we >>> start fixing ports? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Florian >>> >> Still a work in progress, though there hasn't been any progress lately. >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21434 > Wouldn't it make since to back the breaking change out until the fixing > work in process can be completed? > I have been a bit busy lately, but I think I will be able to make some progress with the backward compatibility in the next days. Stay tuned.
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