Re: /etc/nssswitch.conf is supposed to be a symlink now?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>  
>  
>  Am 28.11.18 um 15:45 schrieb Florian Weimer:
>  > * Richard W. M. Jones:
>  > 
>  >> Trying to track down a bug in IPP printing
>  >> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1653276).
>  >>
>  >> We're down a rabbit hole where it seems that in Fedora 29
>  >> /etc/nssswitch.conf ought to be a symlink.  This machine has been
>  >> upgraded from F28 and this is not the case.  AFAIK I have never edited
>  >> the file.
>  > 
>  > /etc/nsswitch.conf is owned by glibc.  It is not a symbolic link as we
>  > ship it.
>  > 
>  > If find out which packages replaces our configuration with a symbolic
>  > link, please file a bug against that package.  If they want to take over
>  > /etc/nsswitch.conf, this is negotiable, but it needs coordination with
>  > the glibc package.
>  
>  and that's why i do "chattr +i /etc/nsswitch.conf" and "chattr +i
>  /etc/resolv.conf" for year - guys stop mangle around in /etc - this is
>  admin area and way too often the mdns crap was added unasked or "mysql"
>  for nss-mysql touched in the past years finding you perfectly working
>  config in a damned .bak file
>  
>  everything which touchs /etc at updates is broken by design 
Yes I've been doing chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf for a very long time.

However in the case of /etc/nsswitch.conf, changing it (with the
cooperation of glibc of course) to be a symlink seems reasonable.

What I'm (still) missing is what's the actual plan?  What should
things look like?

Rich.

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