From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add nmap Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:44:42 -0400 Message-ID: <20160327214442.GD29056@jasmine> References: <87lh53wqlk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akIUI-00030U-M3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:44:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akIUF-00066v-78 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:44:46 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:48012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akIUF-00066f-3M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:44:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lh53wqlk.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:36:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > This package provides nmap [0]. > > Did it fall through the cracks? :-) I actually revisited Taylan's version last night. The only problem with his patch is that the nmap GUI 'zenmap' doesn't run, presumably due to some search path issues. I made a little progress but it still doesn't work. I am going to submit a revision of his patch that leaves 'zenmap' for later. > > > The nmap source distribution comes with a bunch of its dependencies > > bundled. This package deletes most of them and replaces them with > > external libraries. > > > > This package currently uses the bundled copies of liblinear and libdnet. > > Liblinear should be packaged separately [1], but I think that the > > bundled libdnet should be used, because apparently this bundled version > > is modified [2] enough that Debian has chosen to use it [3]. > > Does liblinear have users outside of nmap? In practice, if it has no > life outside of nmap and is developed by the same people, it’s fine to > keep it inside nmap (it’s not really bundling, or at least not the form > that is problematic.) I don't know how often it's used. It seems to me that if it was used by many projects, it would have a proper build system by now. I spent a while trying to build nmap with an external copy of the library, but so far without success.