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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS
by Thomas Bächler 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Am 01.10.2012 11:05, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > On Friday 28 Sep 2012 16:32:09 Bryan Schumaker wrote: >>> I suspect this is something to do with NFS not supporting the capabilities >>> that setcap is trying to use, but I admit I haven't encountered >>> capabilities before I ran into this issue, so it's just a guess. >>> >>> Has anyone else seen this problem, or does anyone have an idea how to fix >>> it? >> NFS doesn't support any capibilities, so I guess the output is to be >> expected... I'm not sure what to do as a workaround, though. Does the >> package still install and run even though it printed the warning? > > Hmm; yeah. Well the package installs, but ping doesn't work for non-root > users. It's not a critical issue, because these are network-booted worker > nodes in a cluster, and I doubt ping will be needed directly on the nodes. > However, it worries me that other things might be affected at some point if > capabilities are increasingly used. I might put in a bug report and see what > the devs think. The lack of capability support on NFS is a shame. In general, we should probably fall back to setuid-root whenever setcap fails and silence this error message. In my opinion, capabilities should be used much more widely and replace setuid-root whereever possible.

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[arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]
by Arch Website Notification 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

=== Signoff report for [testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 4 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 38 packages missing signoffs * 8 packages older than 14 days (Note: the word 'package' as used here refers to packages as grouped by pkgbase, architecture, and repository; e.g., one PKGBUILD produces one package per architecture, even if it is a split package.) == New packages in [testing] in last 24 hours (4 total) == * hdparm-9.42-1 (i686) * libusbx-1.0.14-1 (i686) * hdparm-9.42-1 (x86_64) * libusbx-1.0.14-1 (x86_64) == Incomplete signoffs for [core] (12 total) == * initscripts-2012.09.1-1 (any) 1/2 signoffs * netcfg-2.8.11-1 (any) 1/2 signoffs * dbus-core-1.6.8-1 (i686) 1/2 signoffs * hdparm-9.42-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * libusbx-1.0.14-1 (i686) 1/2 signoffs * rp-pppoe-3.11-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * run-parts-4.3.4-1 (i686) 1/2 signoffs * dbus-core-1.6.8-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * hdparm-9.42-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * libusbx-1.0.14-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * rp-pppoe-3.11-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * run-parts-4.3.4-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs == Incomplete signoffs for [extra] (26 total) == * brltty-4.3-6 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * dbus-1.6.8-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * fssos-nsvs-0.5-9 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * hwloc-1.5-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * jack-0.121.3-7 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * kdevelop-4.3.90-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * kdevelop-php-1.3.90-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * kdevplatform-1.3.90-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * libffado-2.1.0-3 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * lirc-1:0.9.0-28 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * openmpi-1.6.2-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * polkit-0.107-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * xf86-video-intel-2.20.9-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * brltty-4.3-6 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * dbus-1.6.8-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * fssos-nsvs-0.5-9 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * hwloc-1.5-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * jack-0.121.3-7 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * kdevelop-4.3.90-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * kdevelop-php-1.3.90-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * kdevplatform-1.3.90-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * libffado-2.1.0-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * lirc-1:0.9.0-28 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * openmpi-1.6.2-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * polkit-0.107-2 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * xf86-video-intel-2.20.9-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == All packages in [testing] for more than 14 days (8 total) == * kdevelop-4.3.90-1 (i686), since 2012-09-10 * kdevelop-php-1.3.90-1 (i686), since 2012-09-10 * kdevelop-4.3.90-1 (x86_64), since 2012-09-10 * kdevelop-php-1.3.90-1 (x86_64), since 2012-09-10 * kdevplatform-1.3.90-1 (i686), since 2012-09-10 * kdevplatform-1.3.90-1 (x86_64), since 2012-09-10 * polkit-0.107-2 (i686), since 2012-09-16 * polkit-0.107-2 (x86_64), since 2012-09-16 == Top five in signoffs in last 24 hours == 1. allan - 2 signoffs 2. lfleischer - 2 signoffs 3. dreisner - 2 signoffs

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