On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:23:27PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Will Fiveash wrote:
> 
> > pkg:/system/security/kerberos-5 appears to bundle mostly things
> > associated with the KDC aspect of Kerberos and
> > pkg:/service/security/kerberos-5 is stuff associated with Kerberos
> > clients.  There appear to be some anomalies with the contents however.
> > For example usr/sbin/kclient is in pkg:/system/security/kerberos-5 but
> > this should really be in pkg:/service/security/kerberos-5.  There are
> > several other items that should also be moved around.  What we are
> > unsure however is what was thought behind the original construction of
> > these packages contents?
> 
> system/security/kerberos-5 came from SUNWkdc
> service/security/kerberos-5 came from SUNWkrb
> 
> I don't think they were modified in any way -- kclient was in SUNWkdc, for
> instance.

kclient being in the SUNWkdc doesn't seem correct to me either so the
problem was inherited.

> > Can we reorganize these packages into everything needed by krb clients
> > into one package and the additional stuff to provide KDC support in the
> > other or would that violate some new pkg standard?
> 
> No, that would be welcome, and I believe that .  Split them up however you 
> please.
> 
> > And if we do this it would be good if we could rename the packages to
> > reflect this.
> 
> Yes.  Having security/kerberos-5 under both system and service is just a
> pain, but the folks doing the rename ultimately didn't have much input from
> the relevant teams and had a massive number of packages to try to
> coordinate, so things like this ended up happening.

I can see that.  I'm guessing we thought using the previous SRV4 package
contents was the right thing to do but as I examine it now the content
split doesn't seem to fit functional boundaries consistently.  I'll open
an RFE on this.

-- 
Will Fiveash
Oracle
Austin, TX, USA
Internal Solaris Kerberos/GSS/SASL website: http://kerberos.sfbay.sun.com
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/
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