FreeBSD Port: security/py-kerberos

[Dan Langille]

> On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
> 
> On 27-03-15 23:02, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 27-03-15 22:56, Roland van Laar wrote:
>>>> On 27-03-15 22:39, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>>>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 27-03-15 21:11, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Why does security/py-kerberos require security/krb5?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I ask because we already have Kerberos in base.  Why do we need two installations of Kerberos?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm confused.  :/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I ask because I just added security/py-requests-kerberos to the tree.
>>>>>> py-kerberos depends on gssapi/gssapi_generic.h.
>>>>>> This file isn't included in the base kerberos, but it is in the security/krb5 port.
>>>>> I see.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So we need it only for compiling, not for running?
>>>> ;-) I haven't tried running it without the krb5 package.
>>> The resulting python module is: kerberos.so.
>>> Which actually depends on libkrb5support.so from security/krb5
>>> See:
>>> 
>>> # ldd ./kerberos.so
>>> ./kerberos.so:
>>>    libpython2.7.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1 (0x801606000)
>>>    libgssapi_krb5.so => /usr/local/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so (0x8019c1000)
>>>    libkrb5.so => /usr/local/lib/libkrb5.so (0x801c08000)
>>>    libk5crypto.so => /usr/local/lib/libk5crypto.so (0x801ee8000)
>>>    libcom_err.so => /usr/local/lib/libcom_err.so (0x802117000)
>>>    libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80081f000)
>>>    libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x80231a000)
>>>    libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x80253f000)
>>>    libutil.so.9 => /lib/libutil.so.9 (0x802748000)
>>>    libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x80295a000)
>>>    libkrb5support.so => /usr/local/lib/libkrb5support.so (0x802b82000)
>> That looks like what I found on my server after installing.
>> 
>>>>> I want to avoid having two Kerberos installed on the server.  :)
>> I wonder why it needs security/krb5 and can't use Kerberos from base.  It seems odd to me...
> 
> In what way is it odd?
> The base kerberos is a different one than the MIT one.
> py-kerberos is developed by Apple for their calendarserver software and I think they just
> used the MIT implementation.

Here's a patch so it works with Base and with heimdal too.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199123

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/