On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40:53AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
I'm starting to take a look at the heimdal package review:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613001
heimdal is an alternative kerberos implementation to MIT-Kerberos. I'm
assuming we will want to explore the use of alternative to allow coexistence.
From what I know about heimdal I think alternatives sounds correct. It's
something that's setup at the system level, not on an individual preference
so that seems to fit the way alternatives works.
One trick part it for EL6 support. I'm assuming that there
really is no way
we'll get alternatives support into the RHEL6 krb5 package. In that case is
it acceptable to fall back to the /usr/heimdal/ prefix for the package?
From a fedora packaging guideline pov, no... But EPEL is allowed to make
rules that supplement/override the packaging guidelines so you can ask the
other epel contributors if an override is justified in this case.
(Fedora packaging guidelines might be able to justify, say
%{_libdir}/heimdal... I'd need to know a lot more about how the two kerberos
implementations interact to say for sure).
-Toshio