LDB skew against Samba version

[Timur I. Bakeyev]

 Hi, Stefan, Andrew!

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 07:43 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> >
> > thanks! Can you remind me if it's possible to use newer ldb versions
> > 1.4.x or 1.3.x with 4.7? Timur asked me about that and I wasn't sure
> > as we had some problems with that at some point.
>
> It probably doesn't work, particularly for 1.4, as the DSDB module
> stack had to again be changed again when the locking got stricter.
>
> It also simply isn't tested.
>
> I don't suggest mixing Samba with LDB versions different to what it was
> released with, and we should probably remove the pretence that this was
> ever a good idea (ie like CTDB, just release with Samba).
>

Thanks, Stefan, for remembering  my question and acting upon!

Thanks, Andrew, for replying!

So, it seems that the best strategy for the ports/packages from now on is
to use
bundled version of LDB.

Historically, early samba4 ports were modeled after RH/CentOS RPMs,
in particular in the part where great four - TALLOC/TEVENT/TDB/LDB were
bundled as separate external libs/packages.

FreeBSD ports still use such an approach, but with the recent LDB
1.2/1.3/1.4
it became a bit of a hassle to keep separate LDB ports for separate Sambas
(we try to keep all last 3 in the tree).

Hence, I guess, bundled LDB is the best option for now.

With best regards,
Timur Bakeyev.