[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH v2] Upgrade vsftpd to 3.0.0

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Jul 17 20:48:17 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 17 July 2013 14:43:16 Joe MacDonald wrote:
> This adds (unconditional) support for tcp-wrappers and makes it a
> requirement for the upgraded vsftp.  Is this something we could make
> conditional based on tcp-wrappers being present?  Or does anyone think
> this is something worth doing?  tcp-wrappers is coming from oe-core and
> I don't have any systems where the new requirement would be a problem,
> but does anyone else have a system they'd want vsftp without
> tcp-wrappers?

We've recently added tcp-wrappers to a number of recipes in OE-Core; at the 
time there was a discussion about a possible follow-up to add a 
DISTRO_FEATURES item to disable it system-wide. I guess whether or not it's 
worth it depends on what the overhead of having it enabled is.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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