On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 20:07 +0100, Mario-Lorenz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on some of the mail-related packages, and found some issues > that I would like to ask which the better way for a fix would be. > > a) fetchmail doesnt build because it can not find krb5-config. > It can not find it because the sunw kerberos one is in /usr/sun/bin, > which is not in its path. > It can not find the Ubuntu one because when porting that package, its > name was changed to libkrb5-config.
situation with libkrb5 is currently not cleared up yet. I'm voting for OpenSolaris krb5 - to be a default in Nexenta. This would preserver compatibility with OpenSolaris distros. The ubuntu packages which are using krb5 are 99% autoconf/automake aware and should be able to detect OpenSolaris diffs. > To fix this, do I > - change the krb5 package back so it provides krb5-config again, > which might cause issues if other packages expect krb5-config to be > the sun one (and have usr/sun/bin in their path) > or > - change the fetchmail package to include usr/sun/bin in its path and > thus link against the sun kerberos instead of the nexenta one > (are there any specific reasons why we need the two of them, anyway ?) > or > - change the fetchmail package to use libkrb5-config, which is an > unnecessary deviation from ubuntu (and possibly other packages > might suffer from a simmilar problem ? if we would have krb5 as I suggested above - the issue wouldn't exists. > b) mutt does not build because the permissions of /var/mail differ from > ubuntu. (sun var/mail has more lenient permissions, hence the configure > stage thinks it can do without the mutt dotlock helper, and doesnt > compile it, and the packaging stage wants to pack it in... > > Again, this has to be fixed in either the sun package owning > /var/mail, or the mutt (and possibly other) packages... I'll try to fix that in sunwcsr. What's the permission it needs to be? > c) Is there an overriding rationale on when to use Sun userspace vs. > Ubuntu userspace ? sendmail, rmail etc. come to mind as examples > where this happens... I would prefer to keep OpenSolaris stuff and provide an alternative for Ubuntu ones. _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
