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

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Sonntag 27 März 2011 schrieb 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
no objections , from my side.
I just added it yesterday for cifs-utils to extra :)

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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