[CFT+RFC] patch to buildworld with heimdal from ports

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Brandon Gooch
<jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Lee <ben at 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?