[Samba] GnuTLS, modern Samba and RHEL Re: Samba rpms now available from CentOS Storage SIG

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 17:14 +0530, Anoop C S wrote:

> > Initially this sounds like a reasonable option but there is a
> > further
> > wrinkle:  Samba 4.12 exposes a GnuTLS bug:
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14399
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845083
> > https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1278
> > 
> > Is there some way this is dodged or are you in a position to ensure
> > CentOS gets this fixed in that package (I can't see a patch in the
> > CentOS repo).
> 
> Build process for those Samba packages are currently dependant on the
> GnuTLS version with default RHEL 8/CentOS 8 repositories. I am
> hopeful
> that with the following bug, we will have the fix available
> eventually
> with CentOS 8 too.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1844112

Great, I'm glad to hear there is a way this is going to be handled.

Andrew Bartlett
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