Re: please test inetutils 1.9.5 rc1

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:

> I noticed Guix installs ping and ping6 from inetutils with the setuid
> bit enabled.  There is new support for non-setuid usage in this release,
> however I was not able to get it to work.  Comparing with iputils' ping
> it looks like what we have might not be sufficient, but I can't tell for
> sure.

I get:

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$ /gnu/store/1qh584gxcdfjrz43qi042mj0pvh28m9l-inetutils-1.9.4.50-9410/bin/ping 
9.9.9.9
ping: Lacking privilege for icmp socket.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How’s that supposed to work?  If that’s based on POSIX capabilities
(‘setcap’), it won’t work with Guix because these are stripped from
store files.

Thanks,
Ludo’.