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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>,  guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:44:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h74c3j8r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86letqgj3u.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:57:09 +0200")

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’.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-22 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-23  4:18 How to use Guix with sssd, not nscd, on a foreign distro? Chris Marusich
2022-02-23  7:32 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-02-28 13:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-01 17:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-21 14:57 ` sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release? zimoun
2022-06-22 13:44   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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