On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:04:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:28:12PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 23 November 2016 at 19:36, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:
> > > On 11/23/2016 07:39 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Is it supposed to be supported to install RPMs onto NFS filesystems?
> > >> Apparently NFSv3 doesn't support capabilities, so I'm not sure what to
> > >> do with this bug which happens because cap_net_raw is used for the
> > >> fping binaries:
> > >>
> > > I would expect that isn't supported, although I'm somewhat surprised that
> > > it
> > > fails instead of just warning. That's a very unusual setup, having the
> > > root
> > > filesystem on NFS.
> >
> > I doubt that installing on NFS was supported after we began using
> > capabilities on files for security. While installing on NFS was in
> > vogue in the 80's and 90's for thin clients and similar environments,
> > I think it has fallen to the wayside for current development. [In the
> > EPEL environment space I do expect it is still in use for root but
> > probably only in EL6 land versus EL7]
>
> This isn't the first complaint we've gotten, though admittedly it may
> have been a while. (And I'm having no luck finding the bugs in
> bugzilla.)
>
> We could add support for capabilities to the NFS protocol, but that
> could take a while.
>
> It'd be nice if rpm installs could fall back on something else instead
> of failing, but maybe it's complicated to do that safely.
Oh, here's one:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648654
--b.
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