FC9 - recent upgrade breaks NFS

[Bill Davidsen]

M A Young wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Steve Searle wrote:
> 
>> I have got exactly the same situation, with rpcbind not starting and NFS
>> mounts failing.  Switiching selinux to permissive has resolved the
>> problem, however relabelin and switching back to enforcing has returned
>> the problem.
> 
> The new rpcbind and the current selinux-policy packages are 
> incompatible. I suggest you downgrade rpcbind, or wait until the selinux 
> update appears.
>  
I try not to be a whiner, but this is about the forth time in a few months that 
someone has released a package without ever testing it on a system with SElinux 
enabled. Some of those may be multiple reports, but at least three required 
policy changes.

I have suggested holding things in updates-testing until some users actually 
test them, there is very little good in having a testing repository if it's just 
a name and not a QA step.

These are not subtle errors, something flat out doesn't work. Perhaps that level 
of QA could be automated. Failure to boot, or enable network, or big warning 
messages in the system logs are pretty visible.

Consider this a suggestion with a slight hint of complaint. ;-)

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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