Hi,on agony, I have just installed debian packages for hipl, made from hipl--midauth--2.6--patch-146. The debian package files are stored in /homelocal/debpkgs/midauth-146. You can start hipd with "/etc/init.d/hipd start", or make your own debian package and upgrade hipl.
I think this way is more convenient than to maintain each variant for each home directory under /homelocal.
Cheers, Dongsu