Mario Lorenz wrote:

I guess I would prefer ubuntu as a baseline, if only for the reason that
all packages that possibly are ported likely have debianish/linuxish
expectations. For instance, I still find myself calling ps twice,
because the first time it complains -axu aint there. Thank god killall
nowadays insists on a signame :)
Then again, I dont have enough karma yet to vote on this...

Mario

Hi Mario,

I tend to agree with building gnu packages against gnu packages whenever possible/feasible. The two versions of Kerberos should be compat (afaik) but maybe some basic sanity checks are in order?

If you grab a token via sun krb5, can it be used with the debian package krb5 implementation? I tried to do this quickly by grabbing a token via sun krb5 and then installed the krb5-user (debian) package. (I needed to manually add diversions to do this.) Running klist after the install yielded a strange error:

klist: Improper format of Kerberos configuration file while initializing krb5

Interestingly, the config file for the sun krb5 implementation is /etc/krb5/krb5.conf while the debian package seems to use /etc/krb5.conf. It's likely that this one (critical) difference alone could lead to confusion if just the libs are installed.

I think the krb5 debian package needs a little attention so that it uses the same config file path. I quickly made a symlink and verified that the debian klist works with the token acquired from sun kinit:

# cd /etc/
# mv krb5.conf krb5.conf-
# ln -s /etc/krb5/krb5.conf

indeed it seemed to work.


All of this being said, I vote to build against the debian package in general. Unless there are any dissenting opinions I would say just go for it.

Cheers,
-Tim
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