Conflict with c-ares

[marek22k]

Hello,

when I try to install the tools, it also tries to install adig, but adig is already a tool from c-ares. Could this conflict be solved?

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install --optimize=1

[mzary]

I don't know what was the purpose of the commit
162c0816a3b7e1909fc1129df2035b23dd48fd4e. These links are rather useless, not providing any special parsing of command line arguments. Moreover, when installed in the system, the a* targets are just copies of the original ripe-atlas Python script.
If it were hard links to the ripe-atlas script, but parsing command line arguments in a different way than the parent, I would understand the aforementioned commit.

We have the same problem as the reporter of this issue in the FreeBSD ports tree, please see PR (problem report) 285689. IMHO, killing all these a* named links (atraceroute, asslcert, aping, antp, ahttp, adig), at least in case of FreeBSD port net/py-ripe.atlas.tools/ will be the best solution.

Dear Developers, please let me know what do you think about this move ?

[mzary]

After checking 162c0816a3b7e1909fc1129df2035b23dd48fd4e, it's evident that the goal was to make Atlas Tools more user-friendly. For example, instead of using "ripe-atlas measure dns ...", a shorter "adig ..." command was introduced. However, it's unclear whether this change is actually beneficial.

That said, the name collision with the "adig" utility from c-ares is problematic. There are a couple of possible solutions:

• instead of prepending "a", use "ra" (e.g., radig, rantp, ratraceroute, etc.),
  

• rename "adig" to "adrill".
  

[mzary]

In the FreeBSD ports tree, we have removed them all (atraceroute, asslcert, aping, antp, ahttp, adig). This should temporarily fix the conflict with adig from c-ares.