Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (379 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:19 AM, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I sometime have to scan my network to know what is the IP of some active box
> like a smc router.
>
> smc gives only a windows utility.
>
> It's probably pretty easy to do by hand with arp utilities, but I'm not
> skilled enough to this
>
> an Ubuntu fellow uses "netdiscover"
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netdiscover/)
>
> I could easily compile it (it needs libpcap-devel and libnet-devel available
> from YaST)
>
> is there a reason not to have it in openSUSE (other than "nobody cared to
> package it - what I will understand)?
>
> if not, where can I best ask for having it included? Bugzilla? Fate?
>
> thanks
> jdd

JDD,

If your comfortable compiling it yourself you can do everything yourself.

That is:

get netdiscover to build in your home project on OBS.

Submit it to a devel project

Submit it from there to factory.

It magically becomes part of 12.1

The hard part is creating the specfile.  If the build is straight
forward, that's not very hard either.

Also, if its already been packaged for another RPM based distro, there
should be a specfile from that distro that can be useful as a base.

Greg
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