On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:19:36PM -0700, LaMont Jones's all... >On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:07:04AM -0500, Ken Chase wrote: >> Cant deactivate NFS on a diskless box. > >So install the new nfs-utils first... That's all that's required...
>Installing portmapper on every machine in existance regardless of >whether or not it has NFS on it (and therefore adding a new listening >service that most users/admins won't even know is there) is also very >much not an option. > >Sadly, the only space in between is to let you do the upgrade, and then >not have any of your NFS mounts the next time you boot. Well I sadly dont have a snapshot there of what was required to be done to upgrade - I dont think the dependency tree would have let me install nfs-utils without dragging in a ton of other stuff (was dist-up'ing a very old sid) - perhaps with a force-depends in place it would have worked -- at risk tho, but now we're getting into advanced tricks here. Ease of use when it doesn't cost alot of effort seems apt as a general policy. Im not sure of the solution other than portmapper, but all i did was hack my mtab for a few seconds to remove nfs, run the install mount, and put it back. Possibly could break stuff, but it's not like my mount options are going to change for NFS root on a diskless box. What's required in the install scripts to do the functional equivalent for checking diskless setups where mount options are not going to change anyway? I don't know what the debian policy for supporting diskless setups is, but if we're 99% the way there already, seems sad to have one package break it to a level that requires rocket surgery by 31337-level admins only. /kc -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca - 416 897 6284 Heavy Computing - Clueful Server Colocation at 151 Front St. W Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
