Re: Removing Kerberos IV support

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:20:34AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Tracy Di Marco White <netbsd-t%menelos.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Around a year ago I created a zephyr-3.0.2 package against kcr's zephyr
> > 3.0.2 release. Works, and  I'm running it in production on NetBSD 6.1.2. I
> > think I got very minor pushback about importing it because I
> > didn't/couldn't/wouldn't test how it worked with k4, so I bailed on
> > importing it.
> >
> > It's at http://gendalia.public.iastate.edu/zephyr-3.0.2.tar, but I used the
> > canonical source at zephyr.1ts.org at the time, which seems to no longer
> > exist.
> 
> I have the impression we are talking about doing the krb4 exorcism
> shortly after the freeze ends.  If that's right, then I think it would
> be good for you to commit your version as soon as the freeze is over.
> You could put the distfile in MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, or update to a new
> distfile source.   Unfortunately upstream seems to not have distfiles
> (shocking, given that it's on github :-().

I think getting a usable zephyr package in now is the better idea, when
to kill krb4 is a somewhat separate question, but not wasting CPU cycles
on it sounds like a good idea too.

Joerg