fping requires either root or CAP_NET_PING to work, otherwise it is
useless. Use INSTALL_SUID so that fping will be setuid root, and thus
it will be usable by non-root users.
fping knows to drop root priviledges after it parses the command line
and creates the ping socket. You actually get a lot less code running
as root when you make it setuid root and run it from an unprivileged
user.
This is the same way net/iputils already handles "ping", which has the
same requirements.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <henrique@nic.br>
PKG_NAME:=fping
PKG_VERSION:=4.2
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://fping.org/dist/
define Package/fping/install
$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
- $(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/sbin/fping $(1)/usr/bin/
+ $(INSTALL_SUID) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/sbin/fping $(1)/usr/bin/
endef
$(eval $(call BuildPackage,fping))