Found that the results from select had to be fixed too.
changed to test verbiage to test PB on 5.1 arch tree
Trying again (!) to commit the fix containing replace-result to fix the problem with hard-coded ports in the result file of the federated_server test.
Backport of functionality in private 5.2 tree. Added new language to parser, new mysql.servers table and associated code to be used by the federated storage engine to allow central connection information per WL entry.