Bug 877423

Summary:	virtual/rpcgen: proposal for building without NIS support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	base-system, jstein, l_indien
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877427 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877429 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877433
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Attachments:	virtual/rpcgen ebuild proposal

Description Jocelyn Mayer 2022-10-17 10:47:23 UTC

rpcgen is missing when NIS support is disabled, ie when net-libs/libnsl and / or 
net-libs/rpcsvc-proto have not been built.
However, rpcgen can also be provided by the net-fs/nfs-utils package.
Thus, this proposal is to add a new virtual/rpcgen package with a single USE="nis" flag in order to be able to find a package able to provide the rpcgen tool.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build without NIS support, masking net-libs/libnsl and net-libs/rpcsvc-proto
2. Try to build: net-fs/nfs-utils, net-fs/samba, sys-auth/pam_skey, sys-libs/tevent
3. Dependencies cannot be satisfied and / or build fails because of missing rpcgen tool
Actual Results:  
Build fails because of lack of rpcgen tool

Expected Results:  
rpcgen tool can also be provided by net-fs/nfs-utils, when requested

For this to be usable, net-fs/nfs-utils also needs to be patched

Comment 1 Jocelyn Mayer 2022-10-17 10:55:22 UTC

Created attachment 824569 [details]
virtual/rpcgen ebuild proposal