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Bug 152396 - net-nds/portmap lacks important features
Summary: net-nds/portmap lacks important features
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Network Filesystems
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Reported: 2006-10-22 11:34 UTC by Wai Ling
Modified: 2007-04-30 17:45 UTC (History)
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Description Wai Ling 2006-10-22 11:34:40 UTC 
The portmap in gentoo has very limited features compared to the one installed on Debian.  More importantly, portmap does not support interface binding.

On Debian: man portmap

NAME
portmap - DARPA port to RPC program number mapper

SYNOPSIS
portmap [-d] [-t dir] [-v] [-i address]


On Gentoo: man portmap

NAME
portmap -- DARPA port to RPC program number mapper

SYNOPSIS
portmap [-dv]


Perhaps the portmap under Gentoo is outdated.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-22 11:45:13 UTC 
Security won't fix this.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2006-10-22 16:58:35 UTC 
has nothing to do with being outdated, Debian writes custom patches for portmap
Comment 3 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-31 08:37:35 UTC 
so, should we incorporate some of the debian patches?
the binding patch seems to be very useful.
Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-04-20 04:15:14 UTC 
current portmap supports binding to loopback ...

next release of portmap will include these features you're looking for; we can wait for that
Comment 5 Wai Ling 2007-04-21 13:10:05 UTC 
portmap haven't released new version for years, so I doubt it will happen.  But thanks anyway for the notification.
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-04-30 17:45:12 UTC 
you're not following current portmap status; it has a new upstream

see portmap-9999.ebuild