Bug#496915: Modifications related to GSoC project PamNssInstaller
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:58:40PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Any hope of having this system for handling /etc/nsswitch.conf integrated into Debian any time soon? It would be very nice to have this in place before Squeeze. With pam-auth-update in place, the need for automatic configuration of nsswitch.conf is even more pressing when wanting to configure PAM and NSS out of the box. :) Like any wishlist bug this bug will stay out of the radar until we have some more manpower. I haven't tested the patch, but the main problem I see is that this is a perl script. We certainly don't want to make libc6 or libc-bin depends on perl, which will introduce another dependency loop. Also it's probably not a good choice while people are trying to remove the usage of perl in the base system. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#496915: Modifications related to GSoC project PamNssInstaller
Thank you for the feedback. [Aurelien Jarno] Like any wishlist bug this bug will stay out of the radar until we have some more manpower. I haven't tested the patch, but the main problem I see is that this is a perl script. We certainly don't want to make libc6 or libc-bin depends on perl, which will introduce another dependency loop. Also it's probably not a good choice while people are trying to remove the usage of perl in the base system. Perhaps it is better to move this feature to a separate package, like the update-inetd package? Seem a bit overkill to create a new package for a simple perl script, but it might be the best way to do this. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#496915: Modifications related to GSoC project PamNssInstaller
Any hope of having this system for handling /etc/nsswitch.conf integrated into Debian any time soon? It would be very nice to have this in place before Squeeze. With pam-auth-update in place, the need for automatic configuration of nsswitch.conf is even more pressing when wanting to configure PAM and NSS out of the box. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
