[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Monday 01 Oct 2012 11:09:05 Thomas Bächler wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.  I think setuid as a fallback is the solution here, but that could be 
a bit of a nightmare for package maintainers to deal with.

I created this bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31748

Paul