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freetds package

No build available with kerberos support

Bug #1223567 reported by Nathan Bird
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freetds (Ubuntu)
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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.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in freetds (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package freetds - 0.91-5

---------------
freetds (0.91-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add Kerberos support. LP: #1223567.
  * Stop overriding CPPFLAGS in debian/rules, giving us full proper
    hardening support. Closes: #665268.
  * src/odbc/odbc.c: cherry-pick upstream fix for a segfault due to an
    uninitialized value. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane <email address hidden>
    for the fix. Closes: #650422.
  * Allow parallel builds. Closes: #650421.
  * Drop manual autotools patching for dh-autoreconf, fixing builds on
    x32 et al. Closes: #699069.
  * Properly bump the build-dep on debhelper to 9.
  * Bump to Standards-Version 3.9.4, no changes required.
  * Convert copyright file to copyright-format 1.0.
  * src/apps/bsqldb.c, src/apps/bsqlodbc.c: fix wrong getopt() option
    strings so that arguments to -d are parsed correctly.
    Closes: #715697, #715698.
  * src/apps/datacopy.c: handle a lack of login/password information
    without segfaulting. Closes: #715785.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:37:14 +0000

Changed in freetds (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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