[Buildroot] [RFC] rpcbind: Remove 0001-Remove-yellow-pages-support.patch

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Jul 25 21:14:04 UTC 2021


Hello Petr,

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 22:14:53 +0200
Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm thinking about removing
> package/rpcbind/0001-Remove-yellow-pages-support.patch patch.
> 
> It was originally added in 2012 in 8bc245da21 ("rpcbind: new package").
> At the time constants YPBINDPROC_SETDOM, YPPROG, YPPASSWDPROG were missing in
> rpcbind (added in 2015 in rpcbind commit 9e0c7ac ("configure.ac: Check for rpcsvc/mount.h").
> 
> I'll verify it, but I'll strongly suspect the only problem was in these missing
> constants and very old libtirpc. Thus it should be working now.
> Probably the best approach would be to disable legacy yellow pages in upstream,
> I can ask for some configure switch. But if you're don't require it, I'd just
> drop the patch which is not needed any more.
> 
> Patch was also somehow related to package/libtirpc/0001-Disable-parts-of-TIRPC-requiring-NIS-support.patch
> (originally added as package/libtirpc/libtirpc-0001-Disable-parts-of-TIRPC-requiring-NIS-support.patch),
> which was removed in 883a33ece5 ("libtirpc: remove NIS patch") as not needed.

Sure, if it all builds/works fine with a more recent libtirpc, I'm all
fine with dropping this patch!

Best regards,

Thomas
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