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Bug#513305: ITP: unscd -- Micro Name Server Caching Daemon



On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:27:58PM +0000, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > On mer, jan 28, 2009 at 01:30:23 +0000, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > >  It should mostly be a drop-in replacement for existing installs
> > >  using nscd.
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I'm thinking packaging it in place of the
> > current nscd that is a real PoS with too many issues to list. We may
> > decide to just drop nscd in favor of unscd at once, hence it would
> > be easier if maintained from within the glibc team.
> 
> It's fine with me if it ends up being maintained by the glibc team
> eventually; I just need unscd now becauser nscd being so hideous is
> causing me no end of grief.
> 
> It is a separate upstream, though, so it should be separate from glibc
> source-wise. I do plan on making it so that it can easily be installed
> in place of nscd.

I know it's a separate upstream, but it's a drop-in replacement, to the
point where it can read /etc/nsdcd.conf, so my goal was to just drop
nscd from the libc package at once and replace it with unscd. (replacing
nscd with a transition package and all that).
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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