An approach to solving the 'different paths' upgrade problem

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 06:43:25PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I've been thinking about the issue with upgrading Samba4 into a
> different prefix.  Currently upgrade_from_s3 is rather clunky in this
> case. 

> My proposed solution uses this command:

> testparm --parameter-name='netbios name' -l -s 2> /dev/null

> This works not only for netbios name, but also for state dir, private
> dir etc.  It returns the option, even if the smb.conf doesn't set it -
> it was added by Debian for distro-specific scripting around smb.conf
> specified paths. 

> From this, we can extract all the parameters we need.  The advantage
> here is that we won't be using the Samba 4.0 testparm or loadparm system
> - we will have the user point us at the old testparm (with
> --old-testparm=), which will be compiled against the correct paths.

> We can then load this into the loadparm system using param.set_option(),
> or pass it to provision etc. 
I'm not sure I understand all the parameters here, but wouldn't it be
possible to just point the generic smb.conf parser at that file and
use that to retrieve the options?

Cheers,

Jelmer
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