Suggest mentioning no tsize support in package description
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netkit-tftp (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
tftpd does not support 'tsize'. This causes problems with various tftp clients,
especially regarding netbooting - not just pxe boot clients, but other non pxe
devices such as efi intel based macs while network booting.
The lack of debugging information from clients trying to boot via tftp this early
in the boot process makes investigation difficult - essentially trial and error.
The package description does state tftpd does not support pxe clients,
however, tsize requirement is not limited to just pxe clients.
I'd suggest at least changing the wording on the package
description to something more complete, for example:
"Warning: Does not support 'tsize', which is required by some tftp clients,
especially PXE, and various other network boot clients. For those, use atftpd
or tftpd-hpa."
I'm aware that the tftpd package may conform to RFC783, which does not
include tsize. However tsize seems to be a requirement for enough things
that it would be good if the default tftpd package did implement tsize, either
by adding it to the current implementation, or by promoting tftpd-hpa or
atftpd, or renaming package 'tftpd' to something like 'tftpd-original'.
tftpd 0.17-16ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks
James
This bug was fixed in the package netkit-tftp - 0.17-22ubuntu1
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netkit-tftp (0.17-22ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium
* Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
- debian/control: Change dependency from openbsd-inetd to xinetd
so correct size is reported
- debian/control: Added Homepage field.
* Dropped changes included in Debian:
- tftp/tftp.c: fix FORTIFY-detected potential memory corruption
netkit-tftp (0.17-22) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christoph Biedl ]
* Move build system to cmake. (Closes: #912133)
* Mayor cleanup in debian/
[ Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta ]
* Rewrite debian/copyright
* Bumped Standards-Version to 4.2.1. No changes.
netkit-tftp (0.17-21) unstable; urgency=medium
* cross.patch: Fix FTCBFS. (Closes: #902969).
Thanks Helmut Grohne for the patch.
netkit-tftp (0.17-20) unstable; urgency=medium
* configure: Exit with appropiate return code so that
build fails on configure errors. (Closes: #875885)
netkit-tftp (0.17-19) unstable; urgency=medium
* Update tftpd description to warn about missing "tsize". source/ format: Move to 3.0 (quilt) patches/ memory_ corruption. patch: fix FORTIFY-detected potential
(LP: #327868)
* Update README.Debian with default directory (Closes: #609718)
* Add patch by Mats Erik Andersson to fix mapped IPv4 in kfreebsd.
(Closes: #647238)
* debian/
* debian/
memory corruption Patch by Kees Cook. (LP: #691345)
* Bumped Standards-Version to 4.1.4, no changes needed.
* debian/compat: Bumped to 11. Updated debhelper version dependency
* Fix manpage warning. Other lintian cleanups
-- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Wed, 15 May 2019 21:43:43 +0200