El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
> Il 08/07/2012 20:13, ChÃ*-Thanh Christopher Nguyá»…n ha scritto:
> > Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning users of
> > netkit-tftp can be tracked.
>
> Here it is:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
>
> And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed, pointed
> out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but netkit does, so
> I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for bad code.
>
> I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
> though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll stay
> as it is.
>

If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
replacement, I would still go to treeclean it

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:

> El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
> > Il 08/07/2012 20:13, ChÃ*-Thanh Christopher Nguyá»…n ha scritto:
> > > Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
> > > users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.
> >
> > Here it is:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
> >
> > And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
> > pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
> > netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
> > bad code.
> >
> > I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
> > though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
> > stay as it is.
> >
>
> If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
> replacement, I would still go to treeclean it

But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
might think twice.


jer

On 07/08/2012 08:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
Pacho Ramos<pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:


El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:

Il 08/07/2012 20:13, ChÃ*-Thanh Christopher Nguyá»…n ha scritto:

Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.

Here it is:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362

And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
bad code.

I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
stay as it is.


If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
replacement, I would still go to treeclean it

But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
might think twice.


jer

I have several ubiquity routerstations (the hardware in questions) and
I've asked Robin Kauffman to report the steps to reproduce in the bug.
I'll try to get to the bottom of why tftp-hpa doesn't work.


--Tony

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El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:06 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
> On 07/08/2012 08:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
> > Pacho Ramos<pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> >> El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
> >>> Il 08/07/2012 20:13, ChÃ*-Thanh Christopher Nguyá»…n ha scritto:
> >>>> Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
> >>>> users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.
> >>> Here it is:
> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
> >>>
> >>> And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
> >>> pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
> >>> netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
> >>> bad code.
> >>>
> >>> I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
> >>> though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
> >>> stay as it is.
> >>>
> >> If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
> >> replacement, I would still go to treeclean it
> > But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
> > might think twice.
> >
> >
> > jer
> >
> I have several ubiquity routerstations (the hardware in questions) and
> I've asked Robin Kauffman to report the steps to reproduce in the bug.
> I'll try to get to the bottom of why tftp-hpa doesn't work.
>
> --Tony
>

I thought it has a replacement, if not, ok to keep

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I thought it has a replacement, if not, ok to keep

It has a replacement for probably 95% of its users; hopefully Robin
and Anthony can figure out why those 5% (random number of course) is
not able to use tftp-hpa; once we do that it should be safe to remove.
I'll keep it monitored till then. And masked of course, as we don't
want to risk issues, especially security issues, due to that.