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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use Guix with sssd, not nscd, on a foreign distro?
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:24:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h78h60xa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmn7cdjz.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:42:56 +0100")

Hi,

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

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-01 17:24 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 [this message]
2022-06-21 14:57 ` sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release? zimoun
2022-06-22 13:44   ` Ludovic Courtès

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