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Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1


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.

-- 
Kind regards,
 Pavel


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