[PATCHES] heimdal: lib/krb5: do not fail set_config_files due to parse error

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Wed Jun 20 05:09:02 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:02:24 CEST Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical 
wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 11:50 -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical
> 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 08:42:34PM +0200, Volker Lendecke via samba-
technical wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 08:33:23PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy via samba-
technical wrote:
> > > > I'm OK for removing it atm but going forward we cannot pretend such
> > > > configurations do not exist. For example, if someone wants to build
> > > > Samba AD on RHEL/CentOS using Heimdal but keeping the rest of the
> > > > system
> > > > with MIT Kerberos, a default system krb5.conf is utilizing includedir
> > > > to
> > > > implement crypto defaults.
> > > > 
> > > > In a sense, Volker's follow up patch is a better direction because it
> > > > supports includedir operation.
> > > 
> > > The problem is -- there's more broken code around this. How is our
> > > policy right now wrt heimdal? Do we have to go through upstream and
> > > fix their code first, wait for a release and then port into our
> > > version? Or can we go into our copy and right away fix what's broken?
> > 
> > *Is* there a working upstream anymore ? If not, we need to maintain
> > ourselves.
> 
> Yes, there is a active working upstream and both Metze and I have
> commit rights if for some reason patches get ignored.  It is (horror) a
> github project these days, and I do see discussion of pull requests
> from time to time.
> 
> You are correct that for a time it languished, but it has been picked
> back up.

Doesn't really look like this, my patchset is pending since last December ...

https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/pull/354



	Andreas


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