[Samba] regpatch writing to local registry hive with -F not working (registery-utils 4.0.0~alpha15~git20110124.dfsg1-2ubuntu1)

[RiCH]

Bonjour Denis,

I would be very grateful if you manage to do it!

Rich

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 17:41 +0200, denis bonnenfant wrote:

> Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 10:26 +0200, denis bonnenfant a écrit :
> > Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 00:28 +0200, Michael Wood a écrit :
> > > On 14 May 2011 22:09, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 14 May 2011 19:53, RiCH <rich at richud.com> wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Two years ago, I worked a bit on this. There was a lot of things to be
> > done for full support of regf files patching . My patches mostly worked,
> > but I never submitted it because I finally decided to generate .pol
> > files with a small python script and appmently it on client side instead
> > of patching regf files server-side.
> > 
> > So I'm going to resurrect my old sources, rebase it on current git, and
> > hope it helps... As far as I remember, there was some problems with regf
> > format writing, and the registry files generated were sometimes
> > corrupted. Investigating it may be quite difficult, as regf format is
> > not simple and badly documented. But maybe some work was already done
> > yet ? 
> 
> I had a look, and the merge is not straightforward. So I have work on it
> a little bit. Hopefully, regf code seems  corrected, so I expect some
> good news...
> 
> Denis