| Summary: | sys-auth/nss-mdns postinst message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sven Wegener <swegener> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) <compnerd> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | dberkholz |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
compnerd, are you around? commited to portage without a revbump |
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