Bug 446338 – net-misc/ptunnel and net-proxy/pingtunnel are the same packages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description James Cloos 2012-12-07 09:06:22 UTC]

The new net-misc/ptunnel is the same as the existing net-proxy/pingtunnel:

:; eix -H PingT
[I] net-misc/ptunnel
     Available versions:  (~)0.72 {doc selinux}
     Installed versions:  0.72(04:03:38 12/07/12)(doc -selinux)
     Homepage:            http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/
     Description:         Reliably tunnel TCP connections over ICMP packets

[I] net-proxy/pingtunnel
     Available versions:  (~)0.72 {doc}
     Installed versions:  0.72(12:02:14 09/08/11)(doc)
     Homepage:            http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel
     Description:         Tunnel TCP over ICMP

Found 2 matches.

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2012-12-07 09:10:29 UTC]

dastergon please fix. As net-proxy/pingtunnel is the older package I recommend to remove net-misc/ptunnel again.

[Comment 2 James Cloos 2012-12-07 09:43:16 UTC]

The new package is eapi 5, the old eapi 4.

Whichever name remains, the newer ebuild file might be preferable.

[Comment 3 Pavlos Ratis (RETIRED) 2012-12-07 15:09:43 UTC]

I think ptunnel its more proper to be in the net-misc category, because tha most of the tunneling programs exist there (e.g. iodine, httptunnel, proxytunnel). On the other hand this is not a big issue, if you want Lars I can give an update the net-analyzer/pingtunnel with the patch and EAPI 5.

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2012-12-09 18:01:04 UTC]

I was just giving a recommendation. Feel free to do whatever you think is best to solve this. I'm fine with each category / package name.

[Comment 5 Pavlos Ratis (RETIRED) 2012-12-10 21:56:06 UTC]

Ok I moved net-misc/ptunnel to net-proxy/pingtunnel