Re: Sid: please fix dependences of nfs-common
(cc'ing package maintainers for insight)
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Grzegorz Sójka wrote:
Please add netbase to the deps of the nfs-common package. Without it
mounting is impossible, more details may be found in the "Sid: NFSv3
mounting problem" thread.
This should probably actually be in the rpcbind package rather than
nfs-common. Once upon a time, when rpcbind was still portmap, it was
actually part of netbase so a dependency was unnecessary. But rpcinfo is
expected to convert rpc numbers to names, and it can't generally do that
without /etc/rpc. nfs-common may *also* want a dependency, since neither
the kernel client nor the kernel server work properly without it, and in
fact older versions *did* depend on netbase. There's a note in the
changelog about removing obsolete versioned dependencies, but that
probably should have been a conversion to a non-versioned depenedency
instead of outright removal. But, that might be unnecessary if rpcbind
adds the appropriate dependency.
That said, you may be the first person to not install using the
installer, and install nfs-common, and not install nfs-kernel-server,
and not not install any of the other packages which depend on netbase.
You just got lucky. :)
Mike Stone
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