Kerberos5 depends on gnupg but not gnupg2

[Landon Fuller]

On Jul 22, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Yves, great, I'll see if I can get the Portfile to use gnupg2  
> instead of gnupg. Is the kerberos5 MacPort not really used much by  
> anyone now? I see that Apple now includes a Kerberos Key  
> Distribution Center (KDC) in Mac OS X Server (I think starting with  
> 10.3 - Panther) which might suffice for most people, although some  
> of the MacPorts can be built with the "kerberos" variant which then  
> indeed depends on the kerberos5 MacPort having been installed. I  
> see there is also an implementation of Kerberos which is available  
> in MacPorts as the heimdal port. Do most in the MacPorts community  
> now have a preference for the heimdal port over the kerberos5 port?

I've a preference for the Heimdal implementation.

Compare Heimdal:
	http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi? 
o=0&l=30&c=12&op=display_list&vendor=Heimdal&version=&title=&CVE=

vs MIT Kerberos:
	http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi? 
o=0&l=30&c=12&op=display_list&vendor=MIT&version=&title=Kerberos% 
205&CVE=
	http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi? 
o=0&l=30&c=12&op=display_list&vendor=MIT&version=&title=Kerberos% 
204&CVE=


As for gnupg vs gnupg2, both branches are still maintained; gnupg 1.x  
is -- for now -- probably a safer and more conservative choice.

-landonf
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