On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:
> But is it a serious one? :-)
depends. It means you can not have IPv6 on workstations that NFS
mount /usr.
> When designing the IPv6 parts of the initscripts, the two things
> have been non-goals:
>
> 1) IPv6-only operation (no IPv4 enabled at all)
> * not the time for it yet, IMHO.
>
> 2) IPv6 without /usr
> * limited interest for IPv6 in cases where /usr is not usable
>
> Perhaps 2) could be rather easily fixed, as you write.
It should be an easy fix, init.ipv6-global:
sort | uniq ---> sort -u
if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ] ---> if [ "${EUID}" = "0" ]
> Do folks have opinions on the desired level of IPv6 availability?
well, i'd like IPv6 and machines which make heavy use of nfs mounts
not to be mutually exclusive.
regards,
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