On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:20:45 +0100 Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de> wrote:
Hi,
It's currently impossible to submit packages from Base:System due to repo-checker blocking submissions as base packages suddenly require krb5.
This is due to a change in libtirpc, that creates a huge cycle. As I'm protecting Factory from having that cycle too, I block such updates. Unfortunately the check hits other packages in the cycle too, so this means: unless this change is reverted, it won't be possible to submit base packages.
Greetings, Stephan
Do really understand much of this, but I'll tell you what I know. 1/ libtirpc doesn't work properly without the recent change. It causes rpc.gssd to crash whenever someone tries to perform a secure NFS mount. 2/ nfs-utils is in Base:System and it already depends on krb5 so I don't understand why this introduces a new dependency. (just FYI libtirpc is used only by nfs-client, nfs-kernel-server, pam, autofs and rpcbind) So I don't understand what the problem is, or why there is a problem or what sort of approach might fix it. So I cannot be much help here. NeilBrown