Lion/MacPorts2.x migration: Fetchmail looking for Kerberos

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 16:56, Bill Christensen <billc_lists at greenbuilder.com
> wrote:

> I'm doing a test migration of a server from SnowLeopard/MacPorts 1.9.x to
> Lion/MacPorts2.x.   Most of it appears to be going fairly smoothly (though
> uninstalling/reinstalling all the ports is a bit tedious), but i've run into
> a problem installing Fetchmail.  It's looking for Kerberos V... apparently
> found in /usr, but then gives the error "Kerberos 5 DES libraries not found"
> in the log, and quits.
>

That's a Lion compatibility issue... Apple decided to change the whole
Kerberos subsystem in frustrating ways, so on Lion a lot of stuff that could
use system Kerberos now needs to use one from MacPorts, and not all ports
have been updated to reflect this yet.  Install heimdal or kerberos5 from
ports and you should be fine; also file a ticket against the fetchmail port
about the Lion incompatibility.

(Specifically:  they switched from MIT to Heimdal, then left out most of the
API.  As such, the heimdal port might work better with Lion's Kerberos.)

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