DJ Lucas wrote: > > bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: > > >> Remove portmap and nfs-utils at least until upstream gets their act >> together. Stable NIS and NFS headers and functions not currently >> available from any source. > > Actually, I think that we should consider fixing this in LFS by > putting the Sun headers back until we get a stable TI-RPC, our a new > glibc major. The other option I'd to add an RPC headers package of or > own (taken from the glibc source...assuming that I understand > correctly that the functionality is there in glibc, just the headers > no longer are installed.
I understand your concern, but is there anything that either nis of nfs offers that we can't get via other packages? Samba can certainly replace the nfs functionality. I don't know of anyone who uses nis any more, although I suspect there are some who use it just out of habit. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
