[Mageia-dev] the state of perl rebuild

Mon Jan 24 14:29:59 CET 2011

On Monday, 24 January 2011 13:37:19 Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> hi,
+> 
+> some news regarding perl modules rebuilding...
+> 
+> i'm going my way through the existing modules, rebuilding them in order.
+> i've already rebuild ~1700 of them - remains 600.
+> 
+> in the meantime, i've blacklisted some of the rebuilds due to missing
+> non-perl prereqs, build errors that i don't have the time to investigate
+> (yet), etc. so it's a perfect opportunity for you to step in and help if
+> you have some tuits to spare.
+> 
+> here's the list of blacklist, with respective problem:
+
+[...]
+
+> perl-Heimdal-Kadm5                          miss heimdal-devel
+
+Due to lack of time, I haven't been able to be involved in the packaging 
+meetings up to now. However, now that I have fixed the most pressing issues in 
+CatDap, I would like to get some of my Mandriva packages into Mageia.
+
+However, I haven't seen an authoritative indication of what software should go 
+into which repository. If there is only to be one 'core' repository, and all 
+main+contrib should go there, then I will look at uploading heimdal (and 
+various other packages) there.
+
+However, that brings up some other questions. Which Kerberos implementation 
+are we going to use as the "default" ? Heimdal has some interesting features 
+(I think especially of the kcm Kerberos credential manager, allowing multiple 
+tickets, and a patch for Openssh to allow specification of which ticket to use 
+for which hosts in ~/.ssh/config).
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+