Bug#582003: nfs-common: nfs client ignores "port=2049" option when mounting

[Paul Millar <paul.millar@desy.de>]

Hi Ben,

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 05:44:56 Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > However, what isn't clear is why the client is calling the
> > Portmapper service since the port number has been supplied in the mount
> > options ("port=2049")
> 
> [...]
> 
> Right.  For whatever reason, mount.nfs processes the options into a
> canonical form and at this point it will lose the port=2049 option.
> Please can you test the following patch:

[...]

Ah!  That would explain it.

I've applied the patch and rebuilt mount.nfs.   There's now no portmapper 
interaction (when port=2049 is specified) and mounting the NFS server works 
fine.

Many thanks!

Paul.