| Message ID | aae61f5152331e0d8e63c01ddca703e00cde1382.1344706801.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | c78ccd3b96d6834ee9abc61a93d9ae5a529dafc7 |
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Thomas, all, On Saturday 11 August 2012 19:40:46 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> > --- > package/portmap/Config.in | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/package/portmap/Config.in b/package/portmap/Config.in > index f017cb6..8d25e3a 100644 > --- a/package/portmap/Config.in > +++ b/package/portmap/Config.in > @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PORTMAP > help > The standard portmapper for RPC services. > > + Note that portmap is being deprecated in favour of rpcbind. Wouldn't it be better to add (thus answering your question from 00/20): depends on BR2_DEPRECATED Regards, Yann E. MORIN.
Le Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:55:19 +0200, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> a écrit : > > + Note that portmap is being deprecated in favour of rpcbind. > > Wouldn't it be better to add (thus answering your question from 00/20): > depends on BR2_DEPRECATED Yeah, I wasn't sure about this one. Maybe we should mark it deprecated yes. Gustavo, do you see any use case that requires keeping portmap if rpcbind is available? Thanks! Thomas
On 08/13/12 14:35, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Yeah, I wasn't sure about this one. Maybe we should mark it deprecated > yes. Gustavo, do you see any use case that requires keeping portmap if > rpcbind is available? > > Thanks! > > Thomas I use a couple of apps that need RPC that i think will probably break, but on the libc level rather than the portmapper itself so i see no issue there. It's probably worth trying the switch with -next so we can find and fix those in need of a slight LDFLAGS tweak. Regards.
diff --git a/package/portmap/Config.in b/package/portmap/Config.in index f017cb6..8d25e3a 100644 --- a/package/portmap/Config.in +++ b/package/portmap/Config.in @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PORTMAP help The standard portmapper for RPC services. + Note that portmap is being deprecated in favour of rpcbind. + http://neil.brown.name/portmap/ comment "portmap requires a toolchain with RPC support"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> --- package/portmap/Config.in | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)