Bug 699826

ypserv-2.24-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ypserv-2.24-4.fc15

Package ypserv-2.24-4.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ypserv-2.24-4.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ypserv-2.24-4.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Still fails, sorry

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.38.5-24.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 6 08:00:28 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -qa | grep ypserv
ypserv-2.24-4.fc15.x86_64
# /usr/lib64/yp/ypinit -m
...
gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `/etc/mail/aliases', needed by `mail.aliases'.  Stop.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/example.tld'
make: *** [target] Error 2
Error running Makefile.
Please try it by hand.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Still fails, sorry

That's right, because /var/yp/Makefile is considered as a config file, so it is not changed during update. If you removed ypserv at all (remove /var/yp/Makefile also), then it would work after next ypserv install. If you have any test machine, you can give it a try.

I tested this on a fresh F15 BETA installation from the Fedora Desktop Live Media. IIRC ypserv is not installated when using the live cd, so /var/yp/* should not have existed at all when I installed (as I said, fresh installation, ypserv was not installed and thus not updated in any way) ypserv-2.24-4.fc15.x86_64.

I'm sorry, you were right. The new build is on the way.

ypserv-2.24-5.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ypserv-2.24-5.fc15

ypserv-2.24-5.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Broken again on F16:

# /usr/lib64/yp/ypinit -m
[...]
gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `/etc/mail/aliases', needed by `mail.aliases'.  Stop.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/my.lan.tld'
make: *** [target] Error 2
Error running Makefile.
Please try it by hand.

# rpm -qa | grep yp
yp-tools-2.12-6.fc16.x86_64
ypbind-1.33-9.fc16.x86_64
ypserv-2.26-8.fc16.x86_64

Also NISDOMAIN from /etc/sysconfig/network is not set anymore when ypserv (but not ypbind) is enabled (i.e. running domainname after reboot prints nothing)

PS: I wasn't sure if I had to open a new bug for this one?

(In reply to comment #9)
> Broken again on F16:
> 
> # /usr/lib64/yp/ypinit -m
> [...]
> gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `/etc/mail/aliases', needed by
> `mail.aliases'.  Stop.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/my.lan.tld'
> make: *** [target] Error 2
> Error running Makefile.
> Please try it by hand.
> 

Did you update ypserv package or install it on a machine where no ypserv had been before? If you updated, /var/yp/Makefile wasn't changed, because it's treated as a configuration file. So this behavior would be expected.

> # rpm -qa | grep yp
> yp-tools-2.12-6.fc16.x86_64
> ypbind-1.33-9.fc16.x86_64
> ypserv-2.26-8.fc16.x86_64
> 
> Also NISDOMAIN from /etc/sysconfig/network is not set anymore when ypserv (but
> not ypbind) is enabled (i.e. running domainname after reboot prints nothing)

You're right, this seems to be forgotten when the package was converted from SysV init script to native systemd unit file. I'm going to fix it.
 
> PS: I wasn't sure if I had to open a new bug for this one?

This is ok, thanks for reporting.

This happens on a fresh F16 installation.

ypserv-2.26-9.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ypserv-2.26-9.fc16

(In reply to comment #11)
> This happens on a fresh F16 installation.

I've found the problem - the upstream routine for searching the aliases file path doesn't work even if default value /etc/aliases has been passed, so provided a new one. 

Also a script to respect NISDOMAIN environment variable during start of ypserv service has been added.

Feel free to try the update above if you want.

Package ypserv-2.26-9.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ypserv-2.26-9.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-0486/ypserv-2.26-9.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

This just hit me after updating to f16. 

The domain-setting part not the aliases part.  This was devilishly annoying... no domainname on the machine when it came up, ypmake broken... went down a networkmanager + systemd rabbit hole last night, added a domin-setting script to run after interfaces up, but now just found this bugzilla.

Am sure more people have hit this, can't be too uncommon of a setup?

Anyway pulled from updates-testing, thanks

ypserv-2.26-9.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.