Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:38:27 +0100 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/45317: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp" Message-ID: <20021115183827.GA16587@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <200211151814.gAFIEcmn090074@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200211151814.gAFIEcmn090074@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:14:38AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Synopsis: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp" > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: roam > State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 15 10:10:09 PST 2002 > State-Changed-Why: > > Thank you for your patch! > > Unfortunately, the traceroute package used in FreeBSD is contributed > software, maintained independently by the folks at LBL. FreeBSD does > not make local changes to the traceroute source or documentation, unless > sorely needed; the preferred way of introducing changes into the > traceroute package is submitting them to the LBL developers via e-mail > at traceroute@ee.lbl.gov, as noted in the > src/contrib/traceroute/FREEBSD-upgrade file. Would it be possible for > you to contact them and offer them your patch? If they accept it, and > it makes its way into a next release of the traceroute package, it will > be imported into FreeBSD soon thereafter, as part of the next upgrade of > FreeBSD's contributed traceroute package. Yes, I of course am willing to contact LBL. I rather chose a FreeBSD PR though, as "-P" is not even available in their original traceroute package. It was introduced by archie with revision 1.9 of traceroute.c, and ICMP support in "-P" was introduced by Bill Fenner with revision 1.21 of traceroute.c. Therefore IMHO a local patch is the correct thing. bye, Harold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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