wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 17:11:17 UTC 2011


On 03/28/2011 09:00 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Xose Vazquez Perez (xose.vazquez at gmail.com) said: 
>> wireless-tools is deprecated since time ago. iw/rfkill
>> should be used instead it.
> 
> Not to be entirely glib, but with this and the net-tools dependencies...
> we're taking patches. Mere notification is not as useful as
> contribution.

Some of them are so trivial, that it looks like nobody is working
on it:
$ rpm -ql initscripts | xargs egrep "/route |/ifconfig " --color
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network:              /sbin/route add -$args
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:eval $(LC_ALL= LANG= /sbin/ifconfig | LC_ALL=C sed -n '
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:	LC_ALL=C /sbin/route -n \
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:                                       /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:                               /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:$rdevip down
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:               /sbin/ifconfig $DEVICE netmask $NETMASK broadcast $BROADCAST;
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:               /sbin/ifconfig ${DEVICE} ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:	               /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down


net-tools is obsolete since '99 (Red Hat Linux 6.0 - Linux-2.2),
*12 years* ago!

It's a *shame* that all leading distributions, still rely on the
old *BSD way to do networking.


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