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Hey community, |
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for a way too long time Gentoo's samba packages lack the attention they |
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would require to keep them top notch and as useful as possible for our |
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users. |
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The reason I started to take minimum care of our samba packages was |
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because my former employer used Gentoo on his Linux server (guess |
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why? :D) and as there were also samba servers among them I had slight |
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interest in Gentoo's samba packages to be at least up to date on |
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a security point of view. |
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After I started work for my new employer this interest lowered even |
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more and all I am doing right now is simple version bumps on all samba |
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(and related) packages nobody else seems to take care of. |
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The situation in Gentoo became even worse when upstream discontinued |
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the 3.6.x series which still is the only samba version in Gentoo that |
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is multilib capable. |
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Given this fact I decided to unmask samba-4.0 and samba-4.1 series |
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although both still suffering from two major problems: |
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* Until now all samba-4 packages are not multilib ready [1] |
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* samba-4 packages require heimdal, a kerberos implementation that |
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unfortunately cannot be installed in parallel with mit-krb5 package |
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[2] |
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So here comes a really seriously meant call for help: |
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Gyus, if you _are_ interested in samba then please try to invest time |
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and knowledge so we can make Gentoo's samba packages better. |
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To be honest there are some trip wires that make solutions to the two |
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above mentioned problems (and possibly others) a bit difficult: |
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* samba upstream is extremely uncooperative. Best example is that we |
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still have some automagic dependencies [5] in samba's build system and |
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upstream is not very keen on fixing these. |
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* samba (and related) packages are using waf as build system. One of |
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the most ugliest build systems I ever had the bad luck to be involved |
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with. |
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* To make samba-4 (and related) packages multilib ready, we might need |
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to make python multilib ready first. I'm not sure this requirement is |
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still necessary - we should ask mgorny about this :) |
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* We should really get heimdal and mit-krb5 packages in a shape where |
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we can install them in parallel [2]. Using the bundled heimdal from |
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samba is no valid option [3] |
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* Stabilization of samba-4 still needs to go a long road [4] |
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Once again, we need your help so please help. If you are willing to do |
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so and have no commit access, well... I have and as long as the |
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contributions from any volunteer meet the Gentoo standards I am more |
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than happy to commit any improvements as proxy maintainer. If they |
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don't meet the standards, I'm quite sure we can work those issues out |
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together. |
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Kind regards |
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Lars |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/534432 |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/490872 |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/542462 |
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[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies |
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[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/489762 |
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[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/489748 |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/489770 |
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-- |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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