On 9/1/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 09/01/05 23:34 CST:
> 
> > If you are looking make the fix only in heimdal, the symlink approach
> > from Genoo looks better. I just checked and heimdal installs
> > krb5-config file. Hence, if all the pacakges that you mention are
> > using the krb5-config file to check for heimdal includes/libs, then no
> > fix may be needed. I am going to install heimdal on my current system
> > and see what the result is.
> 
> Okay, whatever, I've checked for this though Tush. Most, if not all,
> don't check. They look for gssapi.h and krb5.h in /usr/include.

So creating symlinks as per Gentoo should work?

> Have fun with your Kerberos installation. :-)

Let see :)

> 
> But, please, don't do any updates to the book until you've checked
> out all the packages that can link against a Kerberos installation.

Not planning to. Will post my results here.

> 
> I'm not sure you are understanding my intentions correctly. My
> intention is to *leave everything the way it was found* before Heimdal
> started the installation.

Yep, but some pacakge managers won't allow one pacakge to mess with
files from another package (rpm, apt, pkg-user, ...).

> 
> Tushar, you are aware that Heimdal will overwrite your telnet, ftp,
> rsh, ftpd, telnetd, and more files during the installation? What do you
> propose to do about these for your package management situation?
> 

Will have to check which files are overwritten and take action
accordingly. Let's see, can only tell you how it goes after I install
it:)

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