I don't have time to work on this, but I thought I'd forward this message thinking the Macports community may not be aware of Scott Cantor's interest in bringing Shibboleth to Macports. Maybe there's interest here in helping Scott. Shibboleth would be a welcome addition to Macports, just making it more easily installable. I know increasingly web services are utilizing Shibboleth, more so in Leopard. Jose Begin forwarded message:

From: "Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu> Date: July 13, 2007 12:01:44 PM PDT To: "'Jose Hales-Garcia'" <jose@stat.ucla.edu> Subject: RE: A Shibboleth portfile

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I seem to remember mention of a Shibboleth portfile that was being developed for the Macports system. Is that correct? Is there more information about it?

I created portfiles for all the dependencies and posted them, but didn't realize that the system doesn't support http:// port trees. They should work if copied down onto a machine, but I have no way to setup an rsync server to support a remote tree.

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/downloads/Macintosh/dports/

The final portfile will take a lot more work and I haven't had time to do it. Nobody else seems to care enough to bother, so I guess it will have to wait.

-- Scott

....................................................... Jose Hales-Garcia UCLA Department of Statistics jose@stat.ucla.edu