From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged
 port??
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:42:27 -0400
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Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@novell.com>,
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J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:15:32AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Neil Brown wrote:
>>> What would people think if I added it to the nfs-utils release and
>>> made some improvements?  Would that get into distros in parallel with
>>> nfs-utils?
>> Pormap/rpcbind is an RPC thing... not an NFS thing... Meaning
>> there are other service (i.e. NIS) that needed it... so I
>> really don't think it makes sense to include Pormap/rpcbind
>> in nfs-utils...
>>
>> But... that does not mean an "upstream version" of rpcbind
>> can be maintained by a single entity that everyone (including
>> the distros) can pull from... Something I could (and would)
>> support...
> 
> 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?
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?

I just think it makes sense to keep them separate...

steved.

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