From: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 47685@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47685: Feature Request: Install fping by default
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:02:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34133755-2509-9a31-d093-780df518f013@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmz2gh6g.fsf@nckx>
There is no ping x.org thats the thing i want it to work, fping or other
doesnt matter. ping command not their by default.
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
> Hi!
>
> bo0od writes:
>> Its better to know when you configure guix network using manual
>> installation if things went well or not, the easiest way to do that is
>> ping x.org.
>
> It might be the most common, but note that it's not a reliable way.
>
> Plenty of people are confused that ping doesn't work in their VM with
> QEMU user networking, and think this means they can't access the Web to
> download packages. So they don't even try even though it works fine.
>
>> But fping package is not installed by default within guix
>> iso, Hope to see it added by default.
>
> I looked up ‘fping’ and it's an obscure ping variant. It may be your
> favourite obscure variant ;-) but it's definitely not something that
> should be installed by default.
>
> ‘ping’ is provided by ‘inetutils’. It's already part of
> %base-packages. It is installed by default. Below you talk about the
> installer ISO, but it already has ‘ping’ preinstalled, so I'm confused.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-10 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-10 3:52 bug#47685: Feature Request: Install fping by default bo0od
2021-04-10 17:48 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-10 20:04 ` bo0od
2021-04-10 20:10 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-10 21:40 ` bo0od
2021-04-10 21:54 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-10 17:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-10 20:02 ` bo0od [this message]
2021-04-10 20:15 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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