On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:28:12PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 23 November 2016 at 19:36, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > On 11/23/2016 07:39 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > >> > >> Is it supposed to be supported to install RPMs onto NFS filesystems? > >> Apparently NFSv3 doesn't support capabilities, so I'm not sure what to > >> do with this bug which happens because cap_net_raw is used for the > >> fping binaries: > >> > > I would expect that isn't supported, although I'm somewhat surprised that it > > fails instead of just warning. That's a very unusual setup, having the root > > filesystem on NFS. > > I doubt that installing on NFS was supported after we began using > capabilities on files for security. While installing on NFS was in > vogue in the 80's and 90's for thin clients and similar environments, > I think it has fallen to the wayside for current development. [In the > EPEL environment space I do expect it is still in use for root but > probably only in EL6 land versus EL7]
This isn't the first complaint we've gotten, though admittedly it may have been a while. (And I'm having no luck finding the bugs in bugzilla.) We could add support for capabilities to the NFS protocol, but that could take a while. It'd be nice if rpm installs could fall back on something else instead of failing, but maybe it's complicated to do that safely. --b. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
