Macaroons, like cookies, are a form of bearer credential. Unlike opaque tokens,
macaroons embed caveats that define specific authorization requirements for the
target service, the service that issued the root macaroon and which is capable
of verifying the integrity of macaroons it receives.
WWW: https://github.com/matrix-org/pymacaroons
Convert Python ports to FLAVORS.
Ports using USE_PYTHON=distutils are now flavored. They will
automatically get flavors (py27, py34, py35, py36) depending on what
versions they support.
There is also a USE_PYTHON=flavors for ports that do not use distutils
but need FLAVORS to be set. A USE_PYTHON=noflavors can be set if
using distutils but flavors are not wanted.
A new USE_PYTHON=optsuffix that will add PYTHON_PKGNAMESUFFIX has been
added to cope with Python ports that did not have the Python
PKGNAMEPREFIX but are flavored.
USES=python now also exports a PY_FLAVOR variable that contains the
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[NEW] security/py-pymacaroons-pynacl: Macaroon library for Python
Macaroons, like cookies, are a form of bearer credential. Unlike opaque tokens,
macaroons embed caveats that define specific authorization requirements for the
target service, the service that issued the root macaroon and which is capable
of verifying the integrity of macaroons it receives.
WWW: https://github.com/matrix-org/pymacaroons
PR: 205914
Submitted by: Brendan Molloy <brendan+freebsd@bbqsrc.net>
