Michael Uleysky wrote: > 2014-01-31 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>: > >> Michael Uleysky wrote: >>> 2014-01-31 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Michael Uleysky wrote: >>>>> Hi all. >>>>> >>>>> I suggest two patches for the iana-etc, which solves the problem of >>>>> data updates from the IANA site. >>>> >>>> What problem is that? >>>> >>> >>> iana-etc includes some scripts for downloading recent version of >> protocols >>> and services from IANA site. >> >> Interesting. That is embedded in some gawk scripts, but don't install >> those. I've never noticed them before. That said, have you tested the >> scripts? I tried to follow them manually and I can't find the pages >> that are specified, either old or in the patch. Note that we do not >> install the gawk scripts at all. >> > > Pages to download are specifies in Makefile. > Of course, I test these scripts in old and patched variants. Old scripts > are almost unusable, services file generated incorrectly. Patched version > use xml as input instead of plain text and is very simple. > >> These scripts are unusable now because IANA >>> changes addresses and formats of its data. It is not a problem if you >> happy >>> with 5-years old data. Really, there is only one interesting change in >> new >>> IANA data - port numbers for dccp and sctp protocols in services file. >> >> Wouldn't it just be easier to do a sed to the affected files when >> needed? We do that for rpcbind now: >> >> sed -i 's/^sunrpc/rpcbind/' /etc/services >> > It can be done for protocols, because here changes are small, but not for > services. Services from IANA are very large. Of course, it is mainly a > proprietary junk, but I don't know how to separate really useful entries. > > For me, I add rpcbind as alias for sunrpc, > sunrpc 111/tcp<----->rpcbind # SUN Remote Procedure Call > sunrpc 111/udp<----->rpcbind # SUN Remote Procedure Call > There also can be some other aliases, see, for example, services and > protocols files from Gentoo baselayout, > http://de-mirror.org/gentoo/distfiles/baselayout-2.2.tar.bz2 I don't know > the authorized source of these aliases. > > And about CLFS patches. First patch, iana-etc-2.30-get_fix-1.patch, > correct only download url. It is not enough, because format of IANA data > also changed and services file can't be regenerated without changes in > scripts. Second patch is just a snapshot of IANA data on 2012-06-08. I > think, we may combine two ways in one: provide patches on scripts for > people living on the edge, and provide some snapshot of data for regular > use.
What I'm thinking about is to create our own tarball with current data files and also install a couple of custom programs similar to update-usbids and update-pciids. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
