Re: netcat-openbsd

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> matthew sporleder <[email protected]> writes:
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> > I have just added a slightly hacked port of OpenBSD's netcat to pkgsrc wip.
> >
> > This is also common as a debian/ubuntu pkg.
> >
> > I had to do some hacking to make it compile on NetBSD and the build is all
> > done in the pkg Makefile with the source files living in files/
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's better to put this on my own github/google
> > code/whatever, but I'd appreciate some feedback.
>
> If you're trying to make a portable version of the OpenBSD code, then it
> seems best to have it be a first-class open-source project, with an
> included portable build system.  Ideally the changes would go into
> netcat upstream, to avoid the fork, but presumably that's infeasible.

I agree and I've done this.  https://github.com/msporleder/netcat-openbsd

Also I've updated the pkg.  Let me know.

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