From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80405 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2019 18:27:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 80393 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jul 2019 18:27:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 18:27:49 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id pGYkhnk8sUIS2pGYlh5CZL; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 12:27:47 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: [ITP] mtr To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <9136fc20-39a5-6105-c8f9-b680911d1393@dronecode.org.uk> <0c51810f-9b4b-a817-62bb-2b5d9a70f3ac@SystematicSw.ab.ca> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 18:27:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0c51810f-9b4b-a817-62bb-2b5d9a70f3ac@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 2019-07-21 12:10, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-07-21 06:59, Jon Turney wrote: >> On 21/07/2019 00:15, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> I would like to offer to package mtr: >>> >>> combines the function of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in one network >>> diagnostic tool. >>> >>> Investigates the network connection between the host it runs on and a >>> user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each >>> network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO >>> requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each >>> machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each >>> machine. >>> >>> It is available under all RedHat, Debian, BSD, Arch, Slack, SuSE, and >>> other Linux flavours: >>>          https://pkgs.org/download/mtr >>> >>> Control files, sources, and binaries are available under the mtr folder: >>>     https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jxeYZ10mYhmz8YhwE3EOXvd-lVwd176o >>> >>> See the project home page for more information: >>>     http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ >> >> A couple of minor nits: >> >> mtr is be built with a gtk+ interface for displaying results, if present, but >> you've omitted the from DEPENDS. >> >> Not sure what you intend, so either (i) explicitly configure --without-gtk, or >> (ii) add the needed gtk devel package(s) to DEPENDS. > > I don't currently run X under Cygwin 32, and many will not, because of memory > limits, and did not know whether it might just fail on such systems. > I will bite the bullet, and see how rebase does. > >> After I build this, 'mtr -v' reports 'mtr UNKNOWN' > > Good catch - wondered what that was meant to be - tests pass! > Will look into that, and get back when updated to X and that. > >> Otherwise, looks good. Built with gtk2.0-devel installed now requires libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 libglib2.0_0 libgtk2.0_0 which probably drags a lot of X in. Is there a standard way to offer subpackages with and without X in these cases? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.