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Questions reqarding packaging and conventions
From: |
Ignacio Coterillo |
Subject: |
Questions reqarding packaging and conventions |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:55:31 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.4.15; emacs 28.0.50 |
Hello,
I'm trying to debug and fix issues with Kerberos based authentication on both
Icecat and
qutebrowser and got a few questions:
Via strace I found that icecat tries load `libgssapi.so` which doesn't exist.
Trivially creating the file as a symbolic link to the `libgssapi_krb5.so`
provided
by the `mit-krb5` package and exposing via LD_LIBRARY_PATH solves the issue and
fixes Kerberos based authentication.
- Question 1: Should this be fixed in the mit-krb5 package or in the icecat
package?
- Question 2: What would be the best way of creating this link in a package?
I've played with creating a modified `mit-krb5` (i.e. `my-mit-krb5`) with the
following additional build phase:
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'install 'create-link
(lambda _
(let* ((libpath (getenv "out"))
(origin (format #f "~a/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so" libpath))
(target (format #f "~a/lib/libgssapi.so" libpath)))
(symlink origin target))
#t))
This works, but creates the link with full path target instead of relative
like the rest of links
created naturally by the original build process:
❯ ls -l
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi*
lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 21 Jan 1 1970
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so
-> libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 21 Jan 1 1970
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2
-> libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
-r--r--r-- 2 root root 380520 Jan 1 1970
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 7 root root 82 Jan 1 1970
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi.so
->
/gnu/store/irhvqdpc4zvyj9in514lv859mjkyi7p3-my-mit-krb5-1.18/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so
Should I try to `chdir` to the path before creating the link, or is there a
cleaner
way of doing something like this?
qutebrowser Kerberos support comes from `qtwebengine`. The only change needed
would
be to add `mit-krb5` as input and add the "--webengine-kerberos=yes" qmake
option in its
`configure` build phase.
My question here is about whether there is any policy requiring formal
justification to
increase the number of dependencies of a certain package or this would be
considered a valid
request/patch.
Best regards,
Ignacio
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