Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:57:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz>, Jan Sucan <sucanjan@gmail.com>, "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: <201911260057.xAQ0vH6W000351@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2jZyh4ANF=Q2Ws_bxu5a8OhNuHo-Q-p0fYOinm4s1hAPg@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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