[arch-dev-public] The future of heimdal and nfs-utils

[Stéphane Gaudreault]

Le 23 mars 2011 06:44:04, Tobias Powalowski a écrit :
> Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011 schrieb Allan McRae:
> > On 23/03/11 03:03, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
> > > Le 19 mars 2011 09:17:42, Allan McRae a écrit :
> > >> On 19/03/11 22:49, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > >>> Hi guys,
> > >>> The reason for not updating nfs-utils in [core] is the fact that,
> > >>> nfs-utils and heimdal patches don't work together anymore.
> > >>> I don't use this feature at all.
> > >>> Other distributions don't use heimdal as kerberos implementation,
> > >>> so no luck to find any help there.
> > >>> I asked diego from gentoo who did some work on gentoo and nfs stuff,
> > >>> but he is busy since ages, but agrees that the whole thing is in a
> > >>> real bad state.
> > >>> 
> > >>> What to do?
> > >>> Shall we drop the heimdal implementation on nfs?
> > >>> Go away from heimdal and use an other kerberos implementation?
> > >>> As I said before I don't use this features at all.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Thanks for your help.
> > >> 
> > >> Just as an FYI here, I used to maintain heimdal just because no-one
> > >> else was.  Also, I never updated to heimdal-1.4 as it was a bit of a
> > >> broken release and I did not want to pull so many patches from their
> > >> git. Heimdal 1.5pre1 has been tagged, so I guess the 1.5 release will
> > >> not be too far away.
> > >> 
> > >> Anyway, I really do not use heimdal so it would be good if someone
> > >> else wants to take over its maintenance (it is already orphaned...)
> > >> or even switch it completely for MIT kerberos (which probably a good
> > >> idea given that is what many other distros use).
> > >> 
> > >> Allan
> > > 
> > > +1 to replace heimdal by MIT kerberos.
> > > I could take care of the krb5 package unless someone else that use it
> > > more than me want to do it.
> > 
> > Switching to MIT kerberos sounds even better when someone is going to
> > maintain it!
> > 
> > @Tobias: would that solve your issues?
> > 
> > @All: is there anyone who would object to or has concerns about such a
> > move?  I guess it would be a reasonable size rebuild so it would be best
> > to tackle this once [staging] is quite clear and GNOME 3 is done.
> > 
> > Allan
> 
> I think that will solve at least nfs-utils issue. It's always better to use
> a solution that use more distros, that makes it easier to find fixes.
> 
> greetings
> tpowa

It seems that MIT Kerberos depends on keyutils (linux key management 
utilities) : http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/

Any objection if I add this pkg to [core] ?

Stéphane