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Re: Upgrading to Debian 2.1



Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> wrote:
> > An upcoming issue when upgrading to Debian 2.1: If a user just does an
> > apt upgrade, they will loose their NFS server. It has been taken out
> > of netstd.  We need a mechanism to check the users' /etc/exports and
> > select the nfs-server package on upgrade.

> No they won't.  nfs-server has priority standard, so it will be installed by
> default.  Besides, for the few who actually host NFS servers, they should be
> clever enough to deal with the consequences.

Hmm. I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and it didn't grab nfs-server.
Should "apt-get" be changed?

(My solution was to downgrade to netstd_3.07-3.1, a local version that
has PAM support.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu


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