Hi Michael, On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 02:42:43PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 03.06.2012 12:21, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > first, thank you all for the work on a refurbished autofs package! I > > would like to draw your attention to #639529, as it would be great to > > fix this before the wheezy freeze and it's just a minor modification. > > > > Let me sum up, as the lengthy history of the issue might be confusing: > > > > The name service switch functionality allows to assign different > > resources for various informations like passwords, groups etc. > > The resource to use is defined in "/etc/nsswitch.conf". Everybody > > using the autfs-ldap package needs to add: > > > > "automount: files ldap" > > Will it be bad if this line will be left out after removing > autofs-ldap package, ie, when automount nsswitch entry is > listing non-existing lookup method? I guess I should try... >
Apart from leaving cruft back, I guess it should not hurt. > I mean, is it a bug to leave "ldap" in there on autofs-ldap > removal? Not sure if "leaving cruft behind" is a bug in this case. > Because I want to minimize messing up with this file as much > as possible. For example, the user might reorder the entries > after installation, but on removal and reinstall we'll move > "ldap" entry there to the end, which might be considered a > bug too... If there is already an "automount: ... "-entry, nothing should happen. If it's missing, it'll be added at the end. >From what I learned in the discussions about "/etc/nsswitch.conf", I suspect the order of entries does not matter. (<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639530#10>) Best regards, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
