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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available? In-Reply-To: jkh@impala.lotus.com's message of Thu, 14 Oct 1993 20: 09:16 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Oct14152743@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl> <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <DERAADT.93Oct12052011@newt.fsa.ca> <JKH.93Oct14150916@impala.lotus.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 22:27:43 GMT Lines: 36 jkh@impala.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) writes: > deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: > > Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> wrote: > > > NetBSD has it running. > > > > I know. But I would prefer not to change my *whole* stuff for that. > > *chuckle* > > Sorry, but that's just not possible. YP has to be linked into nearly > every program in the system. getpwent() and getgrent() have to call > the YP library code... > Sigh. You know that's not what he meant. There's a big difference > between "make world" and a "guess I'll switch to NetBSD now", and I'm > pretty sure the latter is what Guido was referring to when he said he > didn't want to "change my *whole* stuff", hell, you do a make world to > switch from GAMMA to EPSILON and we didn't hear anyone (him included) > complaining that it was asking too much. Please just ignore Jordan. He hates my guts and just loves to argue; especially when it lets him assume things; ie. that a person who doesn't want to reinstall might not have the source tree online (many don't.) > Someone has donated the YP changes for FreeBSD EPSILON back to us. > This won't be the case for very much longer. *CHANGES*? What changes? If this code is installed in a way that is even a touch different than the way it is installed in NetBSD, you'll be creating a binary compatibility problem. You'd better be damned sure you do it 100% the same way it's done in NetBSD. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca