From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: When the krb5-workstation package is installed, the package downloading functionality is broken in xemacs. I'm assuming this is because it uses /usr/kerberos/bin/ftp instead of the normal FTP client... This can be tested by going into xemacs, and going to the Tools->Packages->Add Download Site menu, selecting a download site, then trying to use Tools->Packages->List and Install. With krb5-workstation installed, the FTP connection attempt will fail. Without it, things work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs-21.4.12-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install xemacs package if needed. 2. Install krb5-workstation package if needed. 3. Try to "Add Download Site", then "List and Install" inside xemacs (more details in description). Actual Results: The FTP connection attempt failed. Expected Results: The FTP connection attempt should have succeeded. Additional info:
Doesn't your "/usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/site-start.el" include: ;; default to non-kerberos ftp (setq efs-ftp-program-name "/usr/bin/ftp") ?
I looked at an "installed from scratch" RedHat 9 system just now and you're right, that line is in the xemacs config, and the FTP seems to work regardless of whether krb5-workstation is installed or not. With the particular system I reported this on, it was the case that it worked as soon as the krb5-workstation package was removed... That system must have had some xemacs-related configuration modifications done to it (or perhaps something in the ~/.xemacs files). As I mentioned, I can't reproduce on a fresh RH9 system, so might as well close the bug. Sorry.
Ok, thanks.