Bug 218638

Summary:	net-misc/iputils: Request for idn support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2008-04-20 19:41:10 UTC

Would be nice if iputils/ping would have idn-support.

There's a patch at fedora, worked for me:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/iputils/devel/iputils-20070202-idn.patch?rev=1.2

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-20 20:06:21 UTC

you should send the same request to the maintainer:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Iputils

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-20 20:56:17 UTC

the fedora patch is pretty lame ... it forces idn on all over the place

when you e-mail upstream, refer them to our version instead

http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/iputils/files/iputils-20070202-idn.patch?rev=1.1