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Re: Kerberos questions: msg#00176

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Subject: Re: Kerberos questions

Kerberos 4 support is VERY important... Some of us work at large universities
whose budget/infrastructure doesn't allow for Kerb5 upgrade...

Good work, BTW. :)
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JR Boyens
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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:13:45AM -0700, Jano Lukac wrote:
>
> Groovy on the kerberos stuff! Finally someone else interested in it :)
>
> Quick thing.. why the skey use? And isn't kerberos 4 "outdated" now, so
> almost as if saying, "why bother" ?
>
> Dave Love said:
> <snip>
>
> > 3. I've then started adding new dependencies for the various
> > utilities, such as cyrus-sasl:
> >
> > dev/libs/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-1.5.27-r1.ebuild:
> >
> > DEPEND="... kerberos4? ( virtual/kerberos4 ) kerberos5? (
> > virtual/kerberos5 )"
> >
> > src_compile() {
> > local myconf
> > use kerberos4 && myconf="${myconf} --enable-krb4"
> > use kerberos4 || myconf="${myconf} --disable-krb4"
> > use kerberos5 && myconf="${myconf} --enable-gssapi"
> > use kerberos5 || myconf="${myconf} --disable-gssapi"
>
>
> I think you might be able to shorten this to the use foo && bar || that,
> but probably kills the readability and might cause a line wrap *shrug*.
> BTW, with the above, I'm assuming you can have both kerberos 4 and 5
> compiled into sasl (but I think I remember you cannot).
>
>
> > ...
> >
> > Am I on the right track here? It seems to work, but I want to
> > make certain I'm headed in the right direction before I go much
> > further.
>
> Looks like it. If kerberos 4 and 5 cannot coexist, then make a single
> virtual depend, or just don't do the virtual depend.
>
> jano
>
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