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

Robin Hack hack.robin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 00:28:08 MDT 2015


Hi all.

Can somebody please review my patches?

scannedonly project is officially dead.

Have nice day and thanks for your time
Robin Hack

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Olivier Sessink <
oli4 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I already replied, but you were not on the list of recipients.
>
> scannedonly is no longer actively maintained. I do no longer have access
> to a testbed and to large numbers of users. So I'm fine with this.
>
> Olivier
>
>
> On 15-06-15 21:36, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:00:31PM +0200, 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 vfs_scannedonly has largely been superseded in recent releases by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.
> >
> > OK by me. What timeframe do we set for getting a response
> > from the maintainer ?
> >
>
>
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