On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Well, the ifconfig implementation in inetutils provides selectable
Oh, there’s another one? I’ve not looked at that one (yet)…
… but then, I really need something that works even with CentOS,
though it (even in version 6, which is way younger than 2003)
Hi!
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 12:56:09 +0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> On 08/09/15 12:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > I need reliable, consistent, parsable output across all Debian versions
> > (and some derivates).
>
> There is no software that currently offers that promise. I understand it
> is annoy
On 08/09/15 13:44, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Will the current format at least stay?
Honestly, I don't know upstream plans, but I don't foresee many more
changes. If I read the git logs correctly, this change dates back to
2003, and the latest upload is just catching up with 14 years of
upstream de
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Finally, I have no intentions on maintaining a fork of net-tools to
> support the 14 years old output format of ifconfig, so I am closing this
> as wontfix.
Hmpf. I’ll search for scripts using either ip or ifconfig
and do some hackery to work with eithe
severity 798329 wishlist
tags 798329 wontfix
close 798329
thanks
On 08/09/15 12:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I need reliable, consistent, parsable output across all Debian versions
> (and some derivates).
There is no software that currently offers that promise. I understand it
is annoying, and m
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Is this breaking a package or just your scripts?
This is breaking at least two scripts of mine, which is where and why
I noticed this immediately after the dist-upgrade today, but there’ll
be others lurking. Probably none of them packaged, though.
> In
THorsten,
On 08/09/15 10:25, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> the changed output format of ifconfig breaks scripts parsing it.
[..]
> This particularily breaks both getting the MAC address and
> the/an IP address.
I don't think it is feasible to try and keep the old format, I have
finally updated net-to
Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-1
Severity: important
Hi,
the changed output format of ifconfig breaks scripts parsing it.
Before:
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:e2:ba:0c:b8:17
inet addr:172.26.3.108 Bcast:172.26.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
in
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