Re: arpwatch & systemd
Le 23 mars 2017 20:30:10 GMT+01:00, Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>thanks Vincent and Gianfranco for offering your advice!
>
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:13:52 +0000 (UTC)
>Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
>> did you consider to merge the work from Fedora?
>> they already have a systemd service, and IIRC the project seems
>> somewhat dead upstream, so merging their work and sending them
>> patches might be beneficial for both distros. Please try to have a
>> similar working tool, rather than diverging too much, specially when
>> upstream is not active anymore.
>
>Well, I had looked at systemd unit files for arpwatch using web search.
>Most of the unit files I found only allow starting one instance of
>arpwatch. This is also true for the unit file included in Fedora. At
>least openSUSE has a systemd service file which allows launching
>multiple instances of arpwatch, but it does not allow different
>configurations for the individual interfaces (which our current LSB
>init script is capable of).
>
>I would like to avoid a situation where upgrading to the new version
>requires writing systemd unit files, so we need to keep the ability to
>have multiple instances of arpwatch which can be configured
>differently.
>
>
>I think calling the project "somewhat dead" is an understatement after
>7+ years of inactivity. This is a long time and different distros have
>accumulated different patches. There also used to be an arpwatch-ng
>fork, which is now also dead. Debian's patches introduce quite a bit
>of functionality to arpwatch as well.
>
>Now directly comparing Fedora and Debian, the arpwatch binaries are
>pretty different (the introduced patches add different feature, newly
>introduced arguments are conflicting, e.g. '-s', …).
>
>While I agree that a strong cooperation between the distros, especially
>for packages with dead upstream, would be mutually beneficial, it is
>hard to start doing that after the packages have diverted so much.
>
>> I don't think you want people having issues when switching from
>> Fedora to Debian and vice-versa, specially with systemd configuration
>> files :)
>
>Unless we want to drop some features available using our current LSB
>init script (thereby forcing some admins to write their own systemd
>unit files just to keep their current arpwatch setup), I don't think
>incompatibilities can be avoided.
>
>> (as pkg-security team we might have some interests in having the
>> package under our team, so you might find sponsors asking us to
>> review your work!)
>
>Good to know, I will X-Debbugs-CC pkg-security once I file an RFS bug.
>Team maintenance would be really nice :) .
>
>Regards
>Lukas
Will ne also nice to repack in ordre to remove oui db
Bastien
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