Re: broken kerberos in fetchmail (Re: equivalent of *BSD's 'make world' in debian?)

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 01:39:07AM +0000, Edward Betts was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> wrote:
> > What would be really nice of course would be the ability to save the
> > compile options and automagically reapply them, but until all programs use
> > autoconf this could be pretty hairy, not to mention problems with local
> > patches (I also have to patch the fetchmail source, its Kerberos support
> > is totally broken by default) and so on :-/
> 
> Could you file a bug against fetchmail with the patch you are using to fix
> the broken Kerberos support? The Debian maintainer could include it in the 
> Debian package, and send the patch upstream so it ends up in the upstream 
> fetchmail package.

  I can.  I don't remember whether I did or not.  Actually, what would be really
nice would be a binary package for a Kerberized version of fetchmail; are there
any non-us developers who could upload this? (it's as simple as passing the
--with-kerberos flag to configure)

  Second thought: is my patch likely to be export-controlled?  It only modifies
the arguments to kauth, but our rules on export of crypto are..um..rather
broad, vague, and silly..I seem to remember them covering 'hooks' for or
linking to crypto libraries, which calls to kauth definitely qualify as.

  Daniel
  (realizing now that I already filed a bug against fetchmail requesting a
   Kerberized package)

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