[Bug 1223567] [NEW] No build available with kerberos support

[Nathan Bird]

Public bug reported:

FreeTDS supports kerberos
(http://freetds.schemamania.org/userguide/kerberos.htm) which is very
useful feature when working on a network with Microsoft domains and SQL
Servers. There does not appear to be any way to do this in Ubuntu.

I can understand that you may not want to make kerberos be a hard
dependency of these packages but it would be very nice if there were
also packages {tdsodbc,libsybdb5,libct4}-krb5 that could be installed.

I checked out the bzr development branch and did the following:

 * `apt-get build-dep freetds`
 * `apt-get install libkrb5-dev`
 * add the `--enable-krb5` flag to `debian/rules`  (based on http://freetds.schemamania.org/userguide/config.htm#CONFIGURE.OPTIONS)
 * build and install the packages

I can then connect to an MS SQL server based on kerberos ticket.

That is to say it isn't that hard to get it to build with krb5, but I
have no idea how to do the control and rules file such that it will
generate a package with and without that build flag.

** Affects: freetds (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  No build available with kerberos support

Status in “freetds” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  FreeTDS supports kerberos
  (http://freetds.schemamania.org/userguide/kerberos.htm) which is very
  useful feature when working on a network with Microsoft domains and
  SQL Servers. There does not appear to be any way to do this in Ubuntu.

  I can understand that you may not want to make kerberos be a hard
  dependency of these packages but it would be very nice if there were
  also packages {tdsodbc,libsybdb5,libct4}-krb5 that could be installed.

  I checked out the bzr development branch and did the following:

   * `apt-get build-dep freetds`
   * `apt-get install libkrb5-dev`
   * add the `--enable-krb5` flag to `debian/rules`  (based on http://freetds.schemamania.org/userguide/config.htm#CONFIGURE.OPTIONS)
   * build and install the packages

  I can then connect to an MS SQL server based on kerberos ticket.

  That is to say it isn't that hard to get it to build with krb5, but I
  have no idea how to do the control and rules file such that it will
  generate a package with and without that build flag.

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