These files are used by api functions like getservbyname(3) and others to map service name to its port/protocol (see services(5) and protocols(5) for more details). In fact iana-etc package just gets these files from here (or uses old ones supplied with the package):
http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.txt http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers and formats them appropriately. If fact files at iana's site are much newer and are updated regularly (port-numbers was last updated 2010-11-22). I think we can drop the package itself and supply /etc/services and /etc/protocols directly as most distributions do. We can get newer versions from one of the distros or create them ourselves. Ilya. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 11/22/2010 06:12 PM, William Immendorf wrote: >>> Pretty recently, the download location for IANA-etc stopped working, >>> and so, that means that IANA-etc is not avaliable. At least for now, I >>> don't know if it will get better at all. >>> >>> This means we have to use Anduin for getting this package. This >>> probally needs to be listed in the errata. >>> >> >> The domain expired. Anybody still keep in touch? > > > Looking at the tarball, the last change was March 2008. The only thing > this package does is create the /etc/protocols and /etc/services files. > > Are these files actually used by anything any more? > > Do we still need this package? > > -- Bruce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
