Heimdal Update - any current branches?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Sep 15 04:52:44 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 06:18 +0300, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> On 09/15/2016 12:50 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > G'Day,
> > 
> > With upcoming travel, one useful iterative (mind-numbing..) task
> > while
> > waiting in airports for flights could be to update Heimdal.  The
> > old
> > version is an increasing liability, and is even preventing the
> > important work to move us to MIT Kerberos.
> > 
> > If we can move to a current git snapshot, we should.  Ideally we do
> > so
> > without upstream patches, and move it to third_party, but that may
> > be
> > harder.  In any case, my question here is just this:
> > 
> > If you have a tree where you have been working on this task, can
> > you
> > please let me know, so I can start without duplicating work?
> > 
> > As we at Catalyst have wintest working again in some capacities
> > (with
> > Windows 2012R2, but only Samba joining due to https://wiki.samba.or
> > g/in
> > dex.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD),
> > we
> > have a reasonable method to validate the update once we get it past
> > our
> > own tests.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
> There's this pull request in upstream's limbo, which was applied on
> our
> tree:
> https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/pull/186
> 

I've followed up there, as I've figured out why we can't accept it
directly.  Once that concern is addressed I have rights to merge into
Heimdal, so rattle my cage if it gets stuck again.

Andrew Bartlett

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