Samba4 on OpenBSD: a report (tags: waf, s3fs, ntvfs)

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Wed Sep 2 07:22:07 UTC 2015


On 2015-08-31 at 21:11 +0200, Thomas Nagy wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:41:32 +0200, (Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > last week we (OpenBSD) have switched the net/samba package in our ports
> > tree from latest Samba3 (+ patches) to Samba4 - samba-4.1.19 to be
> > exact.  The work on Samba4 was started by OpenBSD developer Vadim
> > Zhukov, who did a big amount of work.  The co-maintainers of this samba
> > port are Ian (cc'd) and I.
> > 
> > Here's a bit of feedback about the transition to samba4.
> > 
> > One thing made the transition complicated: waf.  The problem is that, as
> > opposed to autotools that have been tested on and have knowledge of tons
> > of environments, waf is young.
> 
> The Waf version that Samba is using is indeed young. The current Waf version is 1.8, not 1.5.
> 
> >  Plus it encourages you to write custom
> > code, which then breaks on "exotic" setups.  This is the case on
> > OpenBSD, where we use a traditional shared libraries naming scheme.
> > Right now updating to samba-4.2.3 is not possible because of changes in
> > this regard in samba 4.2.x.  I'll try to discuss these problems in time
> > with Samba developers that want to give a hand.
> > 
> 
> There was a long thread on this mailing list about OpenBSD. For some reason, it seems rather difficult to get build-script-related patches in Samba at the moment. I am still waiting on the following for example: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11439

These patches are now in master.
It can move on ... :-)

Michael

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