Bug 72959 – netpipes-4.2.ebuild [new package]

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Forsman 2004-11-30 11:56:39 UTC]

I am attaching an ebuild for the netpipes package version 4.2.  The obvious destination is net-misc/netpipes/ .

" The  netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts.  It can also simplify client/server code by allowing the programmer to skip all  the tedious programming bits related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service."

The tools in the netpipes package overlap a little with the netcat (gentoo's nc6) package as well as bash's magical /dev/tcp/ redirections.  You can see several usage examples at http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/netpipes/ .

This is my first ebuild ever, so a veteran should probably give it a quick review.  Fortunately it is DIRT simple.  Netpipes can be built on any UNIX system, but I only have the x86 architecture available to me.  As volunteers try it on other architectures, expand the KEYWORDS variable.

[Comment 1 Robert Forsman 2004-11-30 11:58:02 UTC]

Created attachment 45014 [details]
ebuild file for netpipes-4.2

Works for me, but I'm a noob.

[Comment 2 Nick Dimiduk (RETIRED) 2004-12-07 12:15:09 UTC]

CCing netmon@g.o as this package is comparable to netcat as per the description.

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2005-01-13 02:03:43 UTC]

added net-misc/netpipes. Thankyou