[bug#31141] [PATCH] gnu: curl: Use mit-krb5 as GSSAPI implementation.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[inputs]: Replace gss with mit-krb5.
> [arguments]: Help configure with locating mit-krb5.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/curl.scm | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/curl.scm b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> index ae8b9600d..b5e1f52da 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages groff)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages gsasl)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages guile)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages kerberos)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages libidn)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages openldap)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
> @@ -62,9 +63,9 @@
>     (outputs '("out"
>                "doc"))                             ;1.2 MiB of man3 pages
>     (inputs `(("gnutls" ,gnutls)
> -             ("gss" ,gss)
>               ("libidn" ,libidn)
>               ("libssh2" ,libssh2)
> +             ("mit-krb5" ,mit-krb5)

Could you explain the rationale?  In general, if there’s a choice and no
compelling reason to do otherwise, we try to favor the GNU
implementation (in this case, GNU GSS) by default.

Thanks,
Ludo’.