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Bug#: 137191
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Sven Wegener <swegener@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2006-06-18 10:50 0000
The avahi/nss-dns upstream maintainer approached me, requesting that we touch
up our postinst message. Something like this should be better:

--- nss-mdns-0.8.ebuild 3 Jun 2006 19:05:24 -0000       1.2
+++ nss-mdns-0.8.ebuild 18 Jun 2006 17:47:54 -0000
@@ -34,17 +34,18 @@
        ewarn
        ewarn "You must modify your name service switch look up file to enable"
        ewarn "multicast DNS lookups.  If you wish to resolve only IPv6
addresses"
-       ewarn "use mdns6.  For IPv4 addresses only, use mdns4.  To resolve
both"
-       ewarn "use mdns2.  Keep in mind that mdns2 will be slower if there are
no"
-       ewarn "IPv6 addresses on the network.  There are minimal
(mdns?_minimal)"
-       ewarn "for slightly faster resolution which do not wait for timeouts."
+       ewarn "use mdns6.  For IPv4 addresses only, use mdns4.  To resolve
both,"
+       ewarn "use mdns.  Keep in mind that mdns will be slower if there are
no"
+       ewarn "IPv6 addresses published via mDNS on the network.  There are
also"
+       ewarn "minimal (mdns?_minimal) libraries, which only lookup .local
hosts"
+       ewarn "and 169.254.x.x addresses."
        ewarn
        ewarn "Add the appropriate mdns into the hosts line in
/etc/nsswitch.conf"
        ewarn "An example line looks like:"
-       einfo "hosts:   files mdns4 dns"
+       einfo "hosts:   files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4"
        ewarn
-       ewarn "Add any domains other than those ending in .local to"
-       ewarn "/etc/mdns.allow"
+       ewarn "If you want to perform mDNS lookups for domains other than the
ones"
+       ewarn "ending in .local, add them to /etc/mdns.allow"
        ewarn
        ebeep 5
        epause 10

------- Comment #1 From Donnie Berkholz 2006-06-21 13:07:17 0000 -------
compnerd, are you around?

------- Comment #2 From Saleem Abdulrasool 2006-06-23 20:20:34 0000 -------
commited to portage without a revbump

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