http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2007-September/006695.html The following message belongs to the thread listed above. >Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:57:24 -0400 >From: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu> >To: heimdal-discuss@sics.se, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> >Cc: nfsv4@linux-nfs.org >Subject: Re: conflict between heimdal and umich gssapi library and their consequences > >On 9/1/07, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote: >> >>I'm fairly sure that for right now Debian is just living with the problem >>and conflicting the libraries. That makes Heimdal almost unusable in >>Debian since the UMich GSS-API indirection layer gets pulled in by the >>NFSv4 support, which is part of standard. >> >>I'm still of the opinion that UMich was at fault here and they need to >>rename their GSS-API library to something else. Heimdal was using that >>library name first, and regardless of how much more "generic" they think >>their indirection layer is, taking a shared library name that's already in >>use is frankly rather rude. Picking a different SONAME version to start >>with clearly isn't sufficient, as we now see. > >I regret any inconvenience our libgssapi library has caused. We used >the obvious name and had no malicious intent. > >I will rename our library to libgssglue which will require a change in >librpcsecgss and will require nfs-utils to be reconfigured and >recompiled (no source changes required). I will put out new versions >on Tuesday. I'll package libgssglue and change nfs-utils to depend on libgssglue. >K.C. >_______________________________________________ >NFSv4 mailing list >NFSv4@linux-nfs.org >http://linux-nfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4 On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:51:13PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >So in summary, what is the verdict? > >I am inclined to add a non-versioned conflicts for now, as I suspect >it might be a while before this can be solved in a better way. > >Also: No, I don't want to maintain a patch in Heimdal that renames the >library. > >If upstream could be convinced to rename the library that would be OK >though. Upstream decided to rename the UMich libgssapi library. >-- >Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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