SUN RPC removal from glibc

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Jan 9 15:20:01 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:15:50 CET Andreas Schneider via samba-technical 
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > glibc deprecated all the Sun RPC stuff since quite some time. This is going
> > to be removed in Fedora 28 from glibc. SUSE will do the same, I don't know
> > about other distributions.
> > 
> > You can find some details here:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SunRPCRemoval
> > 
> > I'm working on checking and using libtirpc for our build. Also rpcgen will
> > be removed from glibc. There will be a new package providing it. Thorsten
> > Kukkuk from SUSE created a project for this:
> > https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto
> > 
> > libnsl is the package which will provide NIS. Not sure if this will work
> > just fine as rpc/yp_prot.h is going to be removed from glibc too.
> > 
> > Does someone know the NIS stuff? Is that still in use?
> 
> Here is the libnsl project:
> 
> https://github.com/thkukuk/libnsl

What about sysquotas_nfs.c?

Volker

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