Debian samba4 package

[C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP]

Wow.  Is there any way to have the package not depend on a specific
implementation of kerberos?  I'd prefer to stick to MIT kerberos.

cjac at foxtrot:~$ sudo apt-get install samba4
[sudo] password for cjac: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  attr bind9 bind9utils ldb-tools libasn1-8-heimdal libdcerpc-server0 libdcerpc0 libgensec0 libgssapi3-heimdal libhcrypto4-heimdal
  libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhx509-5-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libkrb5-26-heimdal libldb1
  libndr-standard0 libndr0 libregistry0 libroken18-heimdal libsamba-credentials0 libsamba-hostconfig0 libsamba-policy0
  libsamba-util0 libsamdb0 libsmbclient-raw0 libtevent0 libwind0-heimdal python-dnspython python-ldb python-samba python-talloc
  python-tdb samba-dsdb-modules samba4-common-bin
Suggested packages:
  bind9-doc ufw phpldapadmin samba-gtk swat2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  attr bind9 bind9utils ldb-tools libasn1-8-heimdal libdcerpc-server0 libdcerpc0 libgensec0 libgssapi3-heimdal libhcrypto4-heimdal
  libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhx509-5-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libkrb5-26-heimdal libldb1
  libndr-standard0 libndr0 libregistry0 libroken18-heimdal libsamba-credentials0 libsamba-hostconfig0 libsamba-policy0
  libsamba-util0 libsamdb0 libsmbclient-raw0 libtevent0 libwind0-heimdal python-dnspython python-ldb python-samba python-talloc
  python-tdb samba-dsdb-modules samba4 samba4-common-bin
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On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 08:16 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 11:31 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> 
> > And maybe we can get some voices here of people using
> > Samba file servers on various Unixes and of the distributors
> > (of Linux, but also BSD flavours maybe).
> 
> I can speak to the process of packaging Samba 4.0, on Debian actually.
> 
> I've been involved in the effort to produce a Samba 4.0 package, and the
> biggest challenge has not been the build system (because it is
> still ./configure && make && DESTDIR=/tmp/installroot make install) but
> in merging the two packing efforts because of the pre-existing samba4
> packages.
> 
> There is more work in ensuring all the shared libraries are put into the
> right packages (particularly because debian packages try to split things
> up), but also great relief that Samba is finally using shared libs, and
> is therefore smaller. 
> 
> There is also work in adjusting to the slightly altered configure
> syntax, but we did a lot of work to ensure options came across from
> autoconf for 4.0, and this isn't difficult. 
> 
> On the Red Hat side of the fence, I'll let the developers involved speak
> for themselves, but we had a flurry of patches before 4.0 specifically
> around tweaking the waf build to make it a little easier to package
> correctly. 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

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