FreeBSD Port: security/py-kerberos

[Dan Langille]

> On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
> 
> On 27-03-15 22:56, Roland van Laar wrote:
>> On 27-03-15 22:39, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 27-03-15 21:11, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why does security/py-kerberos require security/krb5?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I ask because we already have Kerberos in base.  Why do we need two installations of Kerberos?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm confused.  :/
>>>>> 
>>>>> I ask because I just added security/py-requests-kerberos to the tree.
>>>> py-kerberos depends on gssapi/gssapi_generic.h.
>>>> This file isn't included in the base kerberos, but it is in the security/krb5 port.
>>> I see.
>>> 
>>> So we need it only for compiling, not for running?
>> ;-) I haven't tried running it without the krb5 package.
> The resulting python module is: kerberos.so.
> Which actually depends on libkrb5support.so from security/krb5
> See:
> 
> # ldd ./kerberos.so
> ./kerberos.so:
>    libpython2.7.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1 (0x801606000)
>    libgssapi_krb5.so => /usr/local/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so (0x8019c1000)
>    libkrb5.so => /usr/local/lib/libkrb5.so (0x801c08000)
>    libk5crypto.so => /usr/local/lib/libk5crypto.so (0x801ee8000)
>    libcom_err.so => /usr/local/lib/libcom_err.so (0x802117000)
>    libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80081f000)
>    libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x80231a000)
>    libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x80253f000)
>    libutil.so.9 => /lib/libutil.so.9 (0x802748000)
>    libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x80295a000)
>    libkrb5support.so => /usr/local/lib/libkrb5support.so (0x802b82000)

That looks like what I found on my server after installing.

>>> I want to avoid having two Kerberos installed on the server.  :)

I wonder why it needs security/krb5 and can't use Kerberos from base.  It seems odd to me...

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