Possible inclusion of 'net-tools' into Ubuntu Core

[Kieran Grant]

On 06/12/12 01:45, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kieran Grant
> <kieran.thehacker.grant at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Based on the problems that Saqlain had
>> (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2012-December/014092.html)
>> and I initially had with Ubuntu core and using apt-get, I am wondering
>> if Ubuntu Core should include 'net-tools' (or a minimalist version) to
>> allow Ubuntu Core to be booted on a device and to actually be able to
>> setup, and connect to an Ubuntu archive server to pull from?
>>
>> Or, would it be better for this to be mentioned in the Ubuntu Core Wiki
>> page.
>>
>> Because, by the example's given, one would expect that apt-get would
>> work in a newly set-up Ubuntu Core environment, but without the ability
>> to set up a network (or to resolve an ip address to verify), this can
>> sometimes cause connection failures (I had success on one system's
>> chroot, on another failure).
>>
>> New users to Ubuntu Core can sometime come to think something is broken
>> in Ubuntu Core, when in fact it is simply their chroot or virtual system
>> not set up to connect to the network.
>>
>> (I don't think you need dnsutils though to resolve an IP address, that's
>> part of the Standard C Library, or the C Library, which ever term
>> applies to the actual libc.so.6)
> I've never used Ubuntu Core but I just took a look at the 12.04
> tar.gz. It has both iproute and ifupdown installed so it doesn't need
> net-tools for setting up the network. dnsutils isn't needed for
> network setup/access either.
>
> Sudo isn't installed though, so it has to be installed in a chroot.
>
Thanks for telling me about ifroute and ifupdown, but as suggested by
Oliver, I'll use some of the other methods to roll out my environments.

Thanks everyone, and keep up the good work.