sunrpc is orphaned. It provides libraries and headers for rpc routines, utilities including rpcgen, documentation, and the portmap daemon.
The current version of sunrpc is 4.0-3, from 2005. The proposed version, 4.0-4, has NOT been recompiled. It is simply a repackaged version of 4.0-3, with some of the elements removed as they are now provided by cygwin itself, or by newly ITP'ed replacement packages such as 'libtirpc' and 'rpcgen'. What remains is simply: /usr/bin/rstat.exe /usr/sbin/portmap.exe /usr/sbin/rpcinfo.exe /usr/include/rpcsvc/<various> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/sunrpc.README /usr/share/doc/sunrpc/* /usr/share/man/man1/rstat.1.gz /usr/share/man/man5/rpc.5.gz /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8c /usr/share/man/man8/rpcinfo.8c /usr/share/man/man8/rstat_svc.8c http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/sunrpc-4.0-4.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/sunrpc-4.0-4-src.tar.bz2 Eventually, portmap and rpcinfo will be replaced by the rpcbind package, and 'sunrpc' can be completely retired. But until that happens, a tiny bit of TLC is needed: hence, this "sortof" ITA. category: Net requires: rpcgen libtirpc libtirpc-devel sdesc: "Sun RPC (ONC/RPC) utilities" ldesc: "This distribution contains Sun Microsystem's implementation of the RPC portmapper and other utilities. Also included are the RPC service specification files, and demonstration services in the format used by the RPC protocol compiler (rpcgen). This package is 'almost' obsolete; most of the earlier contents (a library providing XDR and RPC functions, the rpcgen utility, and other documentation) have been supplanted by cygwin itself, or the new 'libtirpc' and 'rpcgen' pacakges. Eventually, this package will be completely obsoleted, once the new 'rpcbind' package is completely ported for cygwin."
