svn commit: r351423 - in head: . sbin/ping6 sbin/ping6/tests

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:57 AM Florian Smeets <flo at smeets.xyz> wrote:
> 
> > On 26.08.19 06:28, Jan Sucan wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can implement it. I suppose that ping6's manual page should be kept it
> > > this case.
> > >
> > > I was also thinking about printing a warning for each option renamed to
> > > lead a willing user to use the new unified option set of ping. It could
> > > be either only with -v, or by default and suppressed with -q. Or should
> > > the option translation be completely transparent?
> >
> > Is there an update on this? I found out the hard way today, as I updated
> > my icinga2 host from an revision before this change to a current
> > revision. In this case it's not as easy as fixing a script e.g.
> > net-mgmt/monitoring-plugins check_ping command calls /sbin/ping6 with -X.
> >
> > Will we get a ping6 that is fully backward compatible, or should we
> > start fixing ports?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florian
> >
> 
> Still a work in progress, though there hasn't been any progress lately.
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21434

Wouldn't it make since to back the breaking change out until the fixing
work in process can be completed?

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org