[ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 21 15:05:00 GMT 2014


On Aug 21 18:42, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Hello, Corinna.
> 
> Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 23:14:35 you wrote:
> 
> > Packaging looks good, basically, but the executables are in /usr/bin,
> > while on Linux they are in /usr/sbin.  Would you mind to move them?
> 
>  No, i don't mind. I will.
> 
> > Btw., can you give a quick overview what's going to happen with the
> > still missing executables from the old sunrpc package. /usr/sbin/portmap
> > and /usr/bin/rstat?
> 
>  portmap is now rpcbind and rstat is now rpcinfo.
>  rpcbind  is a new portmapper, designed with capabilities of TI-RPC in
> mind. Old portmap doesn't live quite well with it. So the whole sunrpc
> is completely obsolete.

Uh, super.  Thanks for the info.


Corinna

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