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

[Jan Sucan]

On 26. 11. 2019 1:57, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> 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?
>
I have been a bit busy lately, but I think I will be able to make some 
progress with the backward compatibility in the next days. Stay tuned.