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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Update - Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and frie
From:       "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2017-09-23 21:05:04
Message-ID: 2643322.oKTA8ZNROh () porto
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Update... 

So I asked ntirpc upstream, and they do not intend to remain compatible with 
sunrpc / libtirpc. Meaning we only have two RPC alternatives, one of which 
will go away, and things get a lot easier. 

> 1) About RPC.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/RPC_implementation

^ please see this Wiki page for a proposed workflow and autoconf examples.

In short, IUSE=libtirpc switches the implementation, while IUSE=rpc switches 
an optional rpc support on/off.
(Similar to ssl, libressl)


> 2) About YP / NIS / NIS+.
> 
> a) The old libnsl implementation is provided by glibc, soversion 1.
> b) An updated and much improved implementation is provided by
> net-libs/libnsl, soversion 2.
> 
> glibc-2.26 installs only the library for a), and no headers.
> Since I dont want to mess with currently used glibc ebuilds, net-libs/libnsl
> requires at least our glibc-2.26 (otherwise you get file collisions).
> 
> Porting a package means adding a dependency in the style of

|| ( net-libs/libnsl <sys-libs/glibc-2.26 )



-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
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