Dennis
On 29 November 2016 8:04:07 am AEST, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
--b.
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