Package: portmap Version: 5-19 Severity: important Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: incorrect-dependency
When testing dependency based boot sequencing, I discovered a problem in the init.d script for portmap when installed with a provider of the $named service. Most (all?) providers of the $named service (I discovered it with bind9 and lwresd), depend on $remote_fs, because their binaries are located in /usr/, which is not guaranteed to be available until after the scripts providing $remote_fs is done. $remote_fs on the other hand depend on nfs-common, which in turn depend on portmap, to make sure NFS is properly set up when used. And portmap in turn depend on $named, and there we have a dependency loop: $named->$remote_fs->nfs-common->$portmap->portmap->$named. I propose to break this loop by dropping $named as a dependency for portmap. Portmap need to run before /usr/ is mounted when using NFS, while at least bind9 need to run after /usr/ is mounted, so it make sense for me to break the loop there. I set severity to important, as this bug make it impossible to install portmap when bind9 or lwresd is installed, and impossible to install bind9 and lwresd when portmap is installed. This patch solve the issues: diff -ur portmap-6.0.orig/debian/init.d portmap-6.0/debian/init.d --- portmap-6.0.orig/debian/init.d 2008-01-06 14:48:37.000000000 +0100 +++ portmap-6.0/debian/init.d 2008-01-06 14:50:49.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ # Provides: portmap # Required-Start: $network # Required-Stop: $network -# Should-Start: $named -# Should-Stop: $named # Default-Start: S 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: The RPC portmapper As the stop script do not seem to do anything except killing the daemon, that task might be better left to the sendsigs script in runlevel 0 and 6. If this is indeed the case, I recommend removing 0 and 6 from the Default-Stop list. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
