Return-Path: Received: from mail1.trendhosting.net ([195.8.117.5]:49504 "EHLO mail1.trendhosting.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbdCEUCW (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2017 15:02:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2 To: Niels Thykier , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, 852395@bugs.debian.org, Robbie Harwood References: <148524180980.26332.422684345851896222.reportbug@kirtar> <8ed20c71-d7e2-72e1-a8ce-c913f8e0fffd@thykier.net> <17e5fbd0-9bb1-d7fa-6056-8adbda8a1f4d@pocock.pro> <5df78805-b791-0a5e-3dcb-99792d78c3bd@thykier.net> Cc: Debian kernel team From: Daniel Pocock Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 20:09:13 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5df78805-b791-0a5e-3dcb-99792d78c3bd@thykier.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/03/17 19:42, Niels Thykier wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 09:58:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: >> Daniel Pocock: >>> [...] >>> >>> Upstream is not really supporting rpc.svcgssd any more, they actually >>> disabled it in the build so people can still have it as a transitional >>> measure in stretch. >>> >>> People shouldn't be using it in any new installations. Offering them >>> gssproxy is a very sensible thing to do. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> Debian kernel team >> Ok, follow up questions: >> >> * Do you have an upstream reference to the state of rpc.svcgssd? http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=24b5d60d7f0a514310df810e3eb27b72f665febf "svcgssd: Disable support for the rpcsec_gss server by default At this point the gssproxy is better option than the svcgssd so the support is off by default. Use --enable-svcgss to re-enable the support" but it looks like it may not be completely abandoned, there have been other commits that mention gssd recently. >> >> * Can we provide both rpc.svcgssd and gssproxy in Debian (with the >> admin choosing) or is it an "xor"? >> I think there are two questions: a) can they both exist in different packages that conflict with each other? I'm guessing that will probably be yes. b) can they both be installed simultaneously? Possibly not (can anybody on the linux-nfs list answer?) >> * If this package is unblocked, are there any changes needed in >> nfs-common needed to support gssproxy? (source upload, binNMU or >> "just works with no further changes") >> I don't have time to investigate that right now, if anybody else has time to look more closely that would be great. Regards, Daniel