[RFC] Switch on tdb2 API by default?

Dan Shearer dan at shearer.org
Thu Sep 29 12:09:12 MDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:44:46PM -0400, simo wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:21 -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 08:20 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:52:48AM -0700, Kai Blin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Note that as build systems go I tend to prefer waf to autoconf because I
> > > > know Python much better than m4. But I do get Volker's point that it's
> > > > not as portable as the autoconf build system.
> > > 
> > > The other issue is that (as I understand it) right now the waf
> > > build required the Heimdal libraries to be linked into the smbd
> > > fileserver. For US Government contracts this is prohibited as
> > > MIT kerberos is the only certified krb5 library set that can
> > > be used.
> > 
> > Has Apple been dropped from all US government contracts?  (Apple
> > maintains Heimdal these days, is the the kerberos lib on all current
> > MacOS X versions as I understand it).
> 
> Apple basically dropped any remaining server platform afaik.

Apple still have server software (that they support on most of their
hardware) and server hardware. The current Apple server OS doesn't
include any Samba code afaik, they have their own called smbx or xsmb.

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Dan Shearer
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