Fedora support

[Erik Logtenberg]

Hi,

Could one of the devs indicate if it is possible to have Mandos work
with the latest GnuTLS and/or Python-GnuTLS libraries?

Thanks,

Erik.


On 08/01/2013 04:37 PM, Erik Logtenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently working on adding Fedora support for Mandos myself and
> I'd like to contribute this work.
> 
> What I have now is:
> 
> - Basic RPM-package for Fedora 18, which splits into mandos-server and
> mandos-client package, just like on Debian.
> 
> - Added systemd support for starting/stopping, as that is the default on
> Fedora. Also the SysV-style initscripts don't work on Fedora, as it's
> missing start-stop-daemon and such, so this needed work anyway.
> 
> - I'm in contact with the Initramfs guys and asked them to help
> implement Dracut support for Mandos. As this might have implications for
> the mandos-client package as well, the final packaging will be done
> after this work is completed.
> 
> For Fedora 19 support I'm running into a problem that I'd like to share.
> Mandos has a --check option that does some basic sanity checks, that I
> also use. On Fedora 18 this works a treat, but on Fedora 19 I get an
> error about libgnutls not being found.
> 
> Now Fedora 18 ships with gnutls-2.12.23 and python-gnutls-1.1.9, but
> Fedora 19 ships with gnutls-3.1.11 and python-gnutls-1.2.4. Does Mandos
> support these newer versions? Also Python itself is a bit newer on
> Fedora 19: 2.7.5 versus 2.7.3 on Fedora 18.
> 
> The full traceback is as follows:
> 
> mandos --check
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "rpmbuild/BUILD/mandos-1.6.0/mandos", line 44, in <module>
>     import gnutls.crypto
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnutls/crypto.py", line 11,
> in <module>
>     from gnutls.validators import method_args, one_of
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnutls/validators.py", line
> 9, in <module>
>     from gnutls.constants import *
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnutls/constants.py", line
> 38, in <module>
>     from gnutls.library import constants
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnutls/library/__init__.py",
> line 120, in <module>
>     libgnutls = load_library(name='gnutls', version=26)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnutls/library/__init__.py",
> line 54, in load_library
>     raise RuntimeError('cannot find lib%s on this system' % name)
> RuntimeError: cannot find libgnutls on this system
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Erik Logtenberg.