592392 – sys-apps/baselayout: look into automating updates of /etc/services

Bug 592392 - sys-apps/baselayout: look into automating updates of /etc/services

Summary: sys-apps/baselayout: look into automating updates of /etc/services

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	William Hubbs

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Reported:	2016-08-29 19:38 UTC by William Hubbs
Modified:	2016-08-30 00:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2016-08-29 19:38:12 UTC

The IANA has a .csv file containing a list of all assigned port numbers.
Can we use this file to automate future updates to /etc/services? [1]

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv
we use this to automate the update of /etc/services?

Comment 1 Gary E. Miller 2016-08-30 00:21:22 UTC

(In reply to William Hubbs from comment #0)
> The IANA has a .csv file containing a list of all assigned port numbers.

That file has maybe 11k services in itabout 50 added in 2016 so far.  The current Gentoo /etc/services has about 1118 services in it.  Maybe worth a shot to just pull in the 10k entries Gentoo is missing?