Re: [Libtirpc-devel] glibc/libtirpc and future of client RPC code

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 25, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:

> That would be nice. As glibc libnns_nis are in maintainance mode if you
> could make stable replacement we would welcome removing these and
> telling distros to add dependency on your library for future version.

Ok, it took much longer than expected, at first I had to wait for a libtirpc release
containing all needed fixes and enhancements, and then had some time problems.
But now there are:

libnsl replacing libnsl from glibc/nis:
git: https://github.com/thkukuk/libnsl
tar archives: http://www.linux-nis.org/download/libnsl/

libnss_compat replacing glibc/nis/nss_compat. There are no changes
or functional differences, it's only standalone:
git: https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_compat
tar archives: http://www.linux-nis.org/download/libnss_compat/

libnss_nis replacing glibc/nis/nss_nis. This version is now
using the new NIS protocol if compiled and linked against
above libnsl and libtirpc:
git: https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_nis
tar archives: http://www.linux-nis.org/download/libnss_nis/

libnss_nisplus replacing glibc/nis/nss_nisplus. This required
much more changes than for the rest and I thought. It should
work, but I couldn't test it against a NIS+ server.
git: https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_nisplus
tar archives: http://www.linux-nis.org/download/libnss_nisplus/

Means we can start replacing the glibc code with external versions.

I also think that libtirpc is now in a much better shape to be
able to replace glibc/sunrpc for new compiled binaries.
Would be interesting to know if and which problems there are
still, beside fixing all the configure/Makefile stuff.

Regards,
Thorsten

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