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proposal: use netcat-openbsd as default netcat and remove netcat as a default package #19411

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nhooyr opened this issue Oct 10, 2016 · 6 comments
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proposal: use netcat-openbsd as default netcat and remove netcat as a default package #19411

nhooyr opened this issue Oct 10, 2016 · 6 comments
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0.kind: enhancement 3.skill: good-first-bug 3.skill: trivial 6.topic: nixos 6.topic: user experience 9.needs: community feedback

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nhooyr commented Oct 10, 2016 •
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The reason for switching over to BSD netcat is that the GNU netcat does not support IPv6. I found this very surprising because it would dial on IPv4 localhost while my application was listening on IPv6 localhost.

Also, I don't think this should be a default package because I don't think anything else that is default depends on it. If anyone wants it, they can easily install it.
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I would second this, I have run into the same thing. And since we already have netcat-openbsd, a switch of defaults should be trivial.

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Mic92 commented Oct 22, 2016

So netcat becomes gnu-netcat and netcat-openbsd becomes netcat.

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nhooyr commented Oct 22, 2016

Exactly.

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I will implement this.

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GNU Netcat also doesn't support unix domain sockets.

sternenseemann added a commit to sternenseemann/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Oct 30, 2016
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netcat: make netcat-openbsd the default netcat (NixOS#19411)
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The motivation for this change is the following: As gnu-netcat,
e. g. does not support ipv6, it is not suitable as default netcat.

This commit also fixes all obvious build issues caused by this change.
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sternenseemann commented Nov 3, 2016 •
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PR was merged (#19982). Close?

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