On linux the net-tools suite of utilities has been long since deprecated.
The relevant code that gets executed on Fedora and EPEL should be identified and patched out, with a suitable pull request upstream, to remove the dependency on any tool in the net-tools package and instead use suitable tools form iproute2.
This issue was migrated from Pagure Issue #2970.Originally filed by edewata on 2018-03-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496147
James Hogarth 2017-09-26 10:38:40 EDT
On linux the net-tools suite of utilities has been long since deprecated.
The relevant code that gets executed on Fedora and EPEL should be identified and patched out, with a suitable pull request upstream, to remove the dependency on any tool in the net-tools package and instead use suitable tools form iproute2.