[Clfs-dev] iana-etc

[Andrew Bradford]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Bradford <bradfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Grail Dane <grail69 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>> Wasn't sure if this was a dev thing or not, but I see we have recently started to host our own copy of iana-etc as the original site seems
>> to not be responding.  After searching for a bit I found a thread on LFS talking about it and the fact that not only could
>> the source not been downloaded but once it is that the files being used, ie services and protocols, are out of date (circa 2008).
>> The hot debate about how to update them never really seemed to get resolved except to say to get them from iana directly.
>> What I thought I would add here is that with one simple change and an addition to make this can be done:
>> 1. The following sed update the now out of date link to where the protocol files are stored:
>> sed -i '/file=/s at pro[^ *]@&/&.txt@' Makefile
>> 2. There is already a built in get call that can retrieve the latest copies, so simply do the following:
>> make get && make
>> And viola, if you ran this today the files would be as up to date as:
>> services    2011-01-11
>> protocols   2010-11-23
>> Just thought you might all like to know :)
>> Cheers
>> Grail
>
> Grail,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out!  I didn't know the package had a built in updater script, that's neat.
>
> I did find that your sed line doesn't work well for me on amd64 Debian 5, it ends up garbling the protocol-numbers.iana line in Makefile to look like this:
>
> protocol-numbers.iana:
>         $(AWK) -f get.gawk -v file=prot/prot.txtocol-numbers >protocol-numbers.i
> ana
>
> Which isn't the desired output.  A less complex sed line that works for me, achieves your desired intent, and is a little easier for the regex impaired (myself included :) would be:
>
> sed -i '/file=/s at protocol-numbers@&/&.txt@' Makefile
>
> I'll craft a patch and submit it to the list.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew

Patch attached for the embedded book.  It may also work on other books
but I haven't tested that.

Sorry if my previous email's sed line got wrecked (the list archiver
didn't like it, thought it was an email address).

Regards,
Andrew
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