[arch-general] Should samba be considered out-of-date?
Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2. As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs? My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality. Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.
Am Montag 12 Oktober 2009 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2.
As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs?
My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality.
Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.
Sure i'm aware of it, but i need some time to get into the new samba build process. It's on my TODO list and if i have more time i'll put the new samba to testing. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 07:00 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am Montag 12 Oktober 2009 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2.
As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs?
My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality.
Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.
Sure i'm aware of it, but i need some time to get into the new samba build process. It's on my TODO list and if i have more time i'll put the new samba to testing.
Thanks tpowa. I'll test as soon as its out =). Don't use samba for its actual functionality though, so I'll basically be testing the --merged-build options (self-compile based on your eventual PKGBUILD).
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