[Buildroot] NFS Server on Buildroot Target

[Ryan Barnett]

Hello,

Today I attempted to get an NFS working on a embedded target and
struggled with getting the 'nfs-utils' package to work to provided NFS
server functionality. By selecting the 'nfs-utils' package, the NFS
server functionally does NOT work by default. Before I even attempted
this, I had the kernel configuration options selected for NFSD. It
turned out that I needed to have the rpcbind package selected in order
to make it work, however, this was after a couple hours of trying to
debug this.

I have a few questions that I would like feedback on as I would like
to propose a patch that will allow the nfs-util package to work by
default.

First, should the nfs-util package automatically 'select' on the
kernel configuration options for NFSD?

Other package do this so I would argue that it should.

Second, in order to make the default startup configuration work,
rpcbind is required. Should this be an added dependency since the goal
of a package is to have it work by default?

Any suggestion or feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Ryan

[Extra] Looks like someone posted something similar to the mailing
list in January of 2013

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-January/065498.html

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