On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Joerg Pulz <joerg.p...@frm2.tum.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Brandon Gooch wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Garrett Cooper <gcoo...@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Brandon Gooch
>>> <jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Lee <b...@b1c1l1.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/15/2010 02:08 PM, Joerg Pulz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> after the security/heimdal port was updated to the current heimdal
>>>>>> release and i added one missing function from base it is now possible
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> completely buildworld src/ using the port for all Kerberos5/GSSAPI
>>>>>> enabled parts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Joerg,
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think that having the base system depend on a port is the right
>>>>> solution to resolving the libgssapi compatibility problems in base.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you ever come across the old PR kern/147454 that I submitted in
>>>>> June?  In it I included a src patch that replaced the base system's
>>>>> libgssapi with upstream Heimdal's, which resolved all libgssapi
>>>>> compatibility problems.  That patch is now stale, but either way I
>>>>> haven't been able to draw enough attention to the issue to have it
>>>>> fixed.
>>>>
>>>> I guess we're waiting on someone to review the patch and commit it?
>>>> Hopefully someone can get this in soon, before 8.2 is released.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something wrong with your patch?
>>>
>>> Not according to another person that commented on the patch (and it
>>> sounds like the experience is positive, not negative). Who's the
>>> maintainer of the component?
>>
>> Garrett, where would one look for such an important detail? Source
>> file somewhere?
>>
>> Joerg, how about taking over what's in base? Seems to me like you know
>> what's going on, and you're maintaining the port :)
>>
>> BTW, I'm only beginning to dive into Kerberos on FreeBSD, so I'm not
>> bringing to this discussion much wisdom :/ But I would like all of the
>> pieces to work!
>
> Hi Brandon,
>
> i already started to work on updating base heimdal to a recent version which
> is not the easiest task but i made some progreess.
> Be patient.
>
> Kind regards

Thanks Joerg! Patience is indeed a virtue, though I suppose I'm not
too virtuous! ;)

I'm sure you're work is going to make a lot of people happy!

-Brandon
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