On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:22:15AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Hi,
We had yet another complaint that a customer does not want to install "netcat" for security reasons (no need to discuss), but we cannot even tell him to rpm -e it to quieten his paranoia because it is required by yast2-core and yast2-printer.
yast2-core has a netcat dependency because it uses it to do some connect tests in the ag_hostnames agent.
Is this specific agent still in use?
Yes, various modules use it to scan the local network for machines that have a particular TCP or RPC port open when the user clicks Browse. We could - implement the port scan without netcat (using /dev/tcp/host/port) - change the agent so that it gracefully degrages and returns nothing if netcat is not installed - deprecate the agent and use DNS-SD or SLP instead -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner Kuracke oddeleni v restauraci je jako fekalni oddeleni v bazenu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org