On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:04:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:28:12PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 23 November 2016 at 19:36, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/23/2016 07:39 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > >> > > >> Is it supposed to be supported to install RPMs onto NFS filesystems? > > >> Apparently NFSv3 doesn't support capabilities, so I'm not sure what to > > >> do with this bug which happens because cap_net_raw is used for the > > >> fping binaries: > > >> > > > I would expect that isn't supported, although I'm somewhat surprised that it > > > fails instead of just warning. That's a very unusual setup, having the root > > > filesystem on NFS. > > > > I doubt that installing on NFS was supported after we began using > > capabilities on files for security. While installing on NFS was in > > vogue in the 80's and 90's for thin clients and similar environments, > > I think it has fallen to the wayside for current development. [In the > > EPEL environment space I do expect it is still in use for root but > > probably only in EL6 land versus EL7] > > This isn't the first complaint we've gotten, though admittedly it may > have been a while. (And I'm having no luck finding the bugs in > bugzilla.) > > We could add support for capabilities to the NFS protocol, but that > could take a while. > > It'd be nice if rpm installs could fall back on something else instead > of failing, but maybe it's complicated to do that safely. Oh, here's one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648654 --b. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
