NFSv4-patched ACL lib dependencies

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:58:20PM -0700, Paarvai Naai wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I see your point.  When installing to /usr/local/lib it will be
> difficult to have an analogous separation as one would in /lib and
> /usr/lib.  I guess someone from Redhat (Steve?) might have a better
> idea on the philosophy they take for Fedora and how they manage these
> sorts of issues when packaging for RPM distribution (e.g., for
> samba-common).
> 
> Also, is the plan to update the libacl patch to dynamically load
> libnfsidmap.so at run-time or will the patch for libacl continue
> enforce compile-time linking to libnfsidmap?
> 
> I know the NFSv4 folks would like more people to get on board with
> NFSv4 to help increase mindshare through widespread deployment.  We
> certainly appreciate the efforts made on NFSv4 to date and would like
> to try deploying it, but the current two stumbling blocks for us as a
> company are that the patches to libacl have not made it upstream and
> that there is still this problem with library dependencies.

Why don't the native nfsv4 acl utilities do the job?

(You may have answered that question before, apologies.)

--b.