[Libtirpc-devel] Fwd: Re: proposed patch to rpcbind to provide finer-grained security controls than offered by the -i option

[Steve Dickson]

On 12/14/2010 05:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>> glibc's rpcgen probably does not support generating TI-RPC-capable
>> source, so IMO a likely scenario is that we will try to find a more
>> recent version of rpcgen and, barring any licensing issues, port that.
>>  The port would then replace the glibc version of rpcgen.
> 
> If you do that, then I'd suggest making the new rpcgen a separate package 
> from libtirpc.  (In cross-compilation scenarios, it's likely people may 
> want to build rpcgen for the host but libtirpc for the target.  Since I 
> don't think the output of rpcgen depends at all on the target 
> architecture, given a separate rpcgen package there should be no further 
> complications involved in supporting cross compilation.)
> 
I also agree... moving rpcgen into its own package would 
take it out of your guys hair and plus it easer for us
to make changes... Lets do it!

steved.