[Freeipa-devel] master is broken on F18

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, John Dennis wrote:
>On 03/15/2013 12:56 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>Hi!
>>
>>I was investigating why installing master fails on F18 +
>>updates-testing and found out that install fails with
>>freeipa-server-3.1.99-0.20130313T1838Zgit158bf45.fc18.x86_64 from
>>ipa-devel repo
>>
>>2013-03-15T16:17:40Z DEBUG args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias
>>-R -s CN=jano.ipa.team,O=IPA.TEAM -o
>>/var/lib/ipa/ipa-aza7Wg/tmpcertreq -k rsa -g 2048 -z
>>/etc/httpd/alias/noise.txt -f /etc/httpd/alias/pwdfile.txt -a
>>2013-03-15T16:17:41Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=0
>>2013-03-15T16:17:41Z DEBUG stdout= 2013-03-15T16:17:41Z DEBUG
>>stderr=
>>
>>Generating key.  This may take a few moments...
>
>I believe this is a known problem in certutil where it writes data to
>the wrong file descriptor. The problem was fixed upstream about 10 days
>ago, I'm not sure if Fedora has the fix yet or not. Kai would know, I've
>added him on the cc list.

The reason why I'm thinking it is wider than certutil is because FreeIPA
master is installable for the code before 4152c36 using exactly same
environment, with the same certutil.

I think it is important to fix our own issue as well as update certutil.

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy