Re: [Patch] Adding fedfs to /etc/rpc

["Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 11:43 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
>> Roland had said, " I'm not sure that distributions actually install
>> glibc's etc.rpc in /etc anyway.". ÂI suppose someone could do a
>> survey.
>
> Fedora and RHEL actually install glibc's etc.rpc into /etc (otherwise I
> never would have raised the issue). ÂCan't speak for any other distros.

Thanks Jeff,

I've verified that SLES also uses glibc's etc.rpc (at least up to
SLES11 SP1).  I think Gentoo does as well.  Ubuntu uses a version
provided by a package called netbase.  I presume Debian does the same.

In looking through the libtirpc source tree I see that they describe
etc/rpc in a manpage (man/rpc.5) but they don't actually provide it.
So with a lack of further evidence I presume they're still relying on
the one provided by GLIBC (or netbase) as well.

Is there a reason that libtirpc shouldn't now become the defacto
provider/maintainer of etc/rpc?

Ryan S. Arnold