To release Samba 4.0 'as is'

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 16:26 -0500, simo wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 11:56 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 
> > Quoting Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> > >> However, as someone using Samba 4 in production (authentication for proxy-,
> > >> file- and mailservers, domain controller, mail routing) I would like
> > >> something distributions can build on. Personally I don't care about fs
> > >> support in Samba 4, every serious organization can devote a seperate
> > >> computer/server to it.
> > >> For me I'd rather see monthly or bi-monthly packages in an Ubuntu PPA than
> > >> an early Samba 4 release. Or maybe just some good guidance on how to
> > >> package Samba 4 so people have something to start with.
> > > One of the key reasons I wish to release Samba 4.0 is because so many
> > > users are using it.  Our users should not have to find 'Samba4' in a
> > > Ubuntu PPA just to get our AD DC on their distribution.
> > > As a practical matter in the short term, once we get the bind9_dlz
> > > changes in, I'll see about spinning another alpha to make it easier to
> > > package.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > As a mere user the lack of packaging is an awful nuisance;  and as  
> > long as it isn't 'released' the packaging is always going to be  
> > sub-part and the 'support' [as far as distributions go] is going to be  
> > second-class.  Since Samba is a big name a release will get a lot of  
> > attention and playing nicely with Bind, NTP, and other packages will  
> > become a priority - making using Samba4 much easier.
> 
> 
> Packaging is currently one of the reason we *should* not release.
> 
> The current trees are still quite a mess, and adapting packages has been
> hard and we found a ton of bugs already. More are to come as we explore
> what does not work. Until all the duplication and stupid names like
> smbclient3 vs smbclient are resolved the current build is in no way
> production level shippable matter.

Simo,

I know you have had some challenges with packaging Samba4 in the past.
I'm sorry you got caught needing the package the release between when I
reworked our configure options, and when Metze reworked them more
comprehensibly.   Do you have any specific issues that remain?  

I know we need to flip the names of the smbclient{,3} and ntlm_auth{,3}
binaries, but is there anything else?

It is exactly this kind of issue I would like to focus on over the next
few months. 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org