[PATCH PROPOSAL] - remove vfs_scannedonly from samba 4.x source tree

Olivier Sessink oli4 at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Jun 14 12:14:46 MDT 2015


scannedonly is no longer actively maintained. I do no longer have access
to a testbed and to large numbers of users.

Olivier

On 12-06-15 15:00, David Disseldorp wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:46:32 +0200, Robin Hack wrote:
> 
>> Hello samba!
>>
>> I played with vfs_scannedonly and I found that project looks almost dead
>> from my point of view.
>>
>> Scannedonly is divided to two parts:
>>  * vfs_scannedonly - lives in samba source tree
>>  * scannedonly daemon - lives at http://olivier.sessink.nl/scannedonly/
>>
>> I tried to compile last version, scannedonly-0.21.tar, on fresh Debian 8
>> without luck (I just blindly follow instruction on web pages). Scannedonly
>> package are not present in fedora and debian distributions also...
>>
>> I propose removal of this module from samba source tree.
>>
>> My question is: I would like to know... Does anybody even use
>> vfs_scannedonly/scannedonly daemon in samba 4.x?
> 
> vfs_scannedonly has largely been superseded in recent releases by
> samba-virusfilter[1]. The developer, SATOH Fumiyasu (cc'ed), has
> expressed an intention of getting samba-virusfilter into upstream Samba.
> 
> I'm in favour of removing scannedonly from the master branch, unless
> someone steps up to maintain it.
> 
> Cheers, David
> 
> 1. samba-virusfilter
>    https://github.com/fumiyas/samba-virusfilter
> 


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