Re: Backporting of Heimdal 1.1 to 7.*

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Graham Todd wrote:

> Gunnar Flygt wrote:
>> Is there any possibility that heimdal 1.1 that works beautifully in
>> Current will be backported to FreeBSD-7.x?
>
> What if the port was updated to 1.1 to match base in CURRENT or to 1.2.1
> for testing? :-)  Upstream heimdal is at 1.2.1 but I think there is some
> pthread trickiness involved in getting it to compile (does anyone know
> what is missing there?) For 1.1 you can change the values in the distinfo
> and Makefile in the current port (which is at 1.0.1) and build a new 1.1
> package to use on 7.*. The rc script from the version in ports could use
> modernizing to make more use of rc.subr magic, but things seem to work.
>
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I don't know if this will help or muddy the waters, but... The kerberos
code in FreeBSD-CURRENT isn't Heimdal 1.1, but is code derived from it
by Doug Rabson, I believe. (So, backporting kerberos from -current isn't
the same thing as using Heimdal-1.1 on FreeBSD7.)

I have built vanilla Heimdal-1.1 on FreeBSD7 and used it without 
difficulty, but I never re-linked any system binaries, I just used
Heimdal-1.1 for my gssd. So I don't know what issues might be encountered
re-linking FreeBSD7 sources against Heimdal-1.1. (Heimdal-1.2 fails to
build, because it wants -lpthread added to some linkage, I vaguely 
recall.)

As I said, don't know if this helps, rick