[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] network: handle ping6 vs. ping -6 compatibility

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Alexey,

> Didn't get the idea of the patch, is it a fix for the newer iputils
> packages?
> Do you have a symlink to ping in the newer packages?

> In OL7.3:
> # ll $(which ping6)
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Nov  7 02:00 /usr/bin/ping6 -> ping

> # rpm -q iputils
> iputils-20160308-8.el7.x86_64

It's a problem since version s20150815.
Upstream does not provide these links, it's up to distribution package maintainers to
provide it.
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/ebad35fee3de851b809c7b72ccc654a72b6af61d

Current openSUSE Tumbleweed doesn't provide it (in fact it looks like they never did). I
consider this as a bug in openSUSE (broken backwards compatibility) and report it, but
there might be more distros with this problem. It might be worth adding a note in
testcases/network/README.md or INSTALL.


Kind regards,
Petr