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Re: sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release? |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:44:52 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 at 18:24, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> The Guix manual recommends running nscd:
>>>>
>>>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html
>>>>
>>>> However, Fedora intends to remove it:
>>>>
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD
>>>
>>> D’oh! This is bad. It might suggest that nscd will vanish from glibc
>>> as well, given it’s partly developed by the same group of people.
>>
>> Carlos O’Donell (of glibc) was kind enough to start a discussion
>> explaining why this is a concern for Guix (and Nix and others) and
>> proposing possible ways forward:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-February/136741.html
>>
>> continued:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-March/thread.html#136745
>
> What is the status of this?
Nothing has changed; we have too little weight in the upstream
discussion, so the most likely outcome is that we’ll have to adapt
somehow.
> Can it be blocking for the next release?
No, because it’s not implemented yet, but it’ll have to be addressed
soon enough.
Thanks,
Ludo’.