Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port??

[Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>]

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:36:50PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:42:27AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>>And it that upstream version could still live in the nfs-utils tree,
>>>>couldn't it?  Or it annoying to build multiple binary packages from one
>>>>upstream tree for some reason?

I'd prefer to have them as separate upstream packages. However, it
won't really be much of a problem for debian as I'm the maintainer
of portmap and nfs-utils.

>>>Its not so much the annoyance... its the fact that other services
>>>like NIS also depend on portmap/rpcbind. Why should we require an
>>>AFS shop to install nfs-utils just so they can run NIS?
>>
>>Right.  I mean:  can't you build separate portmap and nfs-utils rpms
>>from the same nfs-utils source, and then make AFS depend only on the
>>portmap package?  I thought it was pretty common to do that sort of
>>thing.

The source package will generate a number of binary packages
(including the portmap binary package) and other binary packages
will depend on the portmap binary package as it happens now.

One problem that I see is that users will have to deal with a much
bigger source package to create patches for portmap.

Another problem is that to build portmapt, users only interested on
portmap and not interested on NFS will have to build-depend on all
the nfs-utils build-dependecies.

>Talking with people that know more about rpms that I ever
>want to know ;-) Yes... it is possible to create multiple
>rpms, with different names, from one source tree and it is
>done, but it does cause confusion... so its not clear how
>common it is...
>>
>>But maybe there's no particular advantage to having the two together
>>anyway.
>I really don't see any...  I think it would become for a headache
>than its worth...
>
>steved.

Anyway, I like Neil's proposal. :)

Best Regards,

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
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