Bug 592392

Summary:	sys-apps/baselayout: look into automating updates of /etc/services
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, gem
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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?