[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

[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.

(I am subscribed to the list, btw.)

Paul