[Buildroot] [RFC] rpcbind: Remove 0001-Remove-yellow-pages-support.patch

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Thomas,

> Hello Petr,

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 22:14:53 +0200
> Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm thinking about removing
> > package/rpcbind/0001-Remove-yellow-pages-support.patch patch.

> > It was originally added in 2012 in 8bc245da21 ("rpcbind: new package").
> > At the time constants YPBINDPROC_SETDOM, YPPROG, YPPASSWDPROG were missing in
> > rpcbind (added in 2015 in rpcbind commit 9e0c7ac ("configure.ac: Check for rpcsvc/mount.h").

> > I'll verify it, but I'll strongly suspect the only problem was in these missing
> > constants and very old libtirpc. Thus it should be working now.
> > Probably the best approach would be to disable legacy yellow pages in upstream,
> > I can ask for some configure switch. But if you're don't require it, I'd just
> > drop the patch which is not needed any more.

> > Patch was also somehow related to package/libtirpc/0001-Disable-parts-of-TIRPC-requiring-NIS-support.patch
> > (originally added as package/libtirpc/libtirpc-0001-Disable-parts-of-TIRPC-requiring-NIS-support.patch),
> > which was removed in 883a33ece5 ("libtirpc: remove NIS patch") as not needed.

> Sure, if it all builds/works fine with a more recent libtirpc, I'm all
> fine with dropping this patch!
Thanks! I'll verify it and send patch or report if still needed.

Kind regards,
Petr

> Best regards,

> Thomas