Bug#991809: A brief note about NIS installation
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: normal
>
> NIS does not more use debconf for its initial installation. While existing
> setups should smoothly upgrade to the new multi-package organization,
> the recommended configuration way in bullseye is by following the nis-howto
> document included in the `nis` meta-package for both clients and servers.
If NIS is expected to upgrade smoothly from v3 in buster to v4 in
bullseye, what is there that needs to be mentioned in the release
notes? Is this something NIS users need to be told about before their
*next* upgrade, i.e. in the bookworm release notes? If so, what is it
that they'll need to be told?
The NIS howto doesn't seem to say anything at all about *upgrades* -
it only deals with the scary things NIS admins are expected to do to
/etc/passwd and so on in order to get NIS up and running in the first
place on a fresh install. And sysadmins preparing to set up a new
NIS server as a fresh bullseye install won't be reading *either* the
buster-to-bullseye Release Notes *or* the docs included in the nis
metapackage...
(Shouldn't there be something, if only a copy of that howto, at
"https://wiki.debian.org/NIS";?)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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