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Bug 1496134 - Remove dependency on net-tools
Summary: Remove dependency on net-tools
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: open-vm-tools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ravindra Kumar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: deprecation, net-tools
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-26 14:28 UTC by James Hogarth
Modified: 2017-10-06 18:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc26 open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc27 open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc25
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Last Closed: 2017-09-30 07:22:04 UTC
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Description James Hogarth 2017-09-26 14:28:12 UTC 
On linux the net-tools suite of utilities has been long since deprecated.

The relevant code that gets executed on Fedora and EPEL should be identified and patched out, with a suitable pull request upstream, to remove the dependency on any tool in the net-tools package and instead use suitable tools form iproute2.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-09-26 15:17:40 UTC 
Last time this came up, Ravindra mentioned there's an upstream
(VMware) bug to change this, but I don't actually have a link to
the upstream bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077320#c2
Comment 2 Ravindra Kumar 2017-09-26 18:06:21 UTC 
This was fixed a while back. The dependency on ifconfig is a soft dependency now. Basically, our script tries different commands and falls back from one to another - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-10.0.x/open-vm-tools/scripts/linux/network#L333.
Comment 3 James Hogarth 2017-09-26 18:16:45 UTC 
Oh good. 

Should be as simple as swapping over this then

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/blob/master/f/open-vm-tools.spec#_87
Comment 4 Ravindra Kumar 2017-09-26 18:53:27 UTC 
'ifconfig' is addressed, I'm not sure what else is part of net-tools. A quick look at 'net-tools' suggests that there is nothing else that we need from this package. So, we should be able to replace it with 'iproute'.

$ rpm -q net-tools
net-tools-1.60-110.el6_2.x86_64
$ rpm -ql net-tools | grep bin
/bin/dnsdomainname
/bin/domainname
/bin/hostname
/bin/netstat
/bin/nisdomainname
/bin/ypdomainname
/sbin/arp
/sbin/ether-wake
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ipmaddr
/sbin/iptunnel
/sbin/mii-diag
/sbin/mii-tool
/sbin/nameif
/sbin/plipconfig
/sbin/route
/sbin/slattach
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-09-28 07:25:45 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a2e8026b5b
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-09-28 07:26:57 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8afe84892f
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-09-28 07:28:43 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-96fa50152d
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2017-09-28 16:29:40 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a2e8026b5b
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2017-09-29 00:54:48 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8afe84892f
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2017-09-29 01:51:22 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-96fa50152d
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2017-09-30 07:22:04 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2017-10-01 18:18:48 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2017-10-06 18:50:24 UTC 
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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