* nss_compat still deprecated?
@ 2018-06-20 7:58 Florian Weimer
2018-06-20 13:10 ` Carlos O'Donell
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2018-06-20 7:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libc-alpha
Did we un-deprecate nss_compat? Should we?
Since this commit:
commit 64d1e08ea822bf47cb2796ad0f727136227f983c
Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Mon Oct 2 14:30:46 2017 +0200
Move nss_compat from nis to nss subdir and install it unconditionally
This has been tested that local lookup still works with and
without an installed libnss_nis, and that NIS lookup works when
libnss_nis is available.
it is no longer necessary to deprecate nss_compat because there is no
strong (non-configurable) NIS dependency anymore.
If we un-deprecate nss_compat, we should add a note to NEWS (both for
2.28 and 2.27.1).
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* Re: nss_compat still deprecated?
2018-06-20 7:58 nss_compat still deprecated? Florian Weimer
@ 2018-06-20 13:10 ` Carlos O'Donell
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From: Carlos O'Donell @ 2018-06-20 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Florian Weimer, libc-alpha
On 06/20/2018 02:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Did we un-deprecate nss_compat? Should we?
>
> Since this commit:
>
> commit 64d1e08ea822bf47cb2796ad0f727136227f983c
> Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Mon Oct 2 14:30:46 2017 +0200
>
> Move nss_compat from nis to nss subdir and install it unconditionally
>
> This has been tested that local lookup still works with and
> without an installed libnss_nis, and that NIS lookup works when
> libnss_nis is available.
>
> it is no longer necessary to deprecate nss_compat because there is no
> strong (non-configurable) NIS dependency anymore.
>
> If we un-deprecate nss_compat, we should add a note to NEWS (both for
> 2.28 and 2.27.1).
>
We have reports of at least 2 customers using compat for useful
purposes because of the way it allows you to alter the lookup
results at a local level e.g. local override.
If we "un-deprecate" it then we should review the manual information
and the linux man page documentation and update it to match the most
recent behaviour.
I'm in favour of un-deprecating it.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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