Request for review: icmpdn

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Thu Jul 7 11:45:39 UTC 2005


On 07/07/2005 01:42 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:14 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>%description
>>>>Since the Linux kernel does not support the ICMP host name facilities as
>>>>described in RFC 1788, I wrote a simple implementation in user-space.
>>>>It comprises three parts:
>>>>
>>>>    * icmpdnd - The ICMP Domain Name daemon, which listens to ICMP
>>>>      domain name requests and replies to them.
>>>>
>>>>    * idnlookup - A user utility to query a host for its host name over
>>>>      ICMP. Like ping and all other utilities that use ICMP, it needs to
>>>>      be installed SUID root.
>>>>
>>>>    * libnss_icmp.so.2 - A glibc NSS module, which uses idnlookup to
>>
>>May I suggest trimming the %description field a bit?
> 
> 
> Now that you mention it, I do agree that it should be trimmed. That
> description was copied directly from the project homepage, and thus is a
> bit verbose. I don't really agree with your sample formulation, though,
> but I'll think about one and hopefully repost.

OK, then do this and send us the link to the new package. :-)

Best,
  Oliver




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