samba 4.11 rpmbuild on CentOS7

[Denis Cardon]

Hi everyone,

I have given a look tonight at building rpm of Samba 4.11 for 
CentOS7[1]. The need for gnutls >= 3.4.7 makes it quite challenging!

Taking on the work of Sergiomb[2] and Nico Kadel Garcias[3], I compiled 
nettle and gnutls and then went on building the other stuff (which was 
more business as usual).

I have a few question about packaging:

* is it ok to use the latest gnutls 3.6.10? It seems the 3.4 serie is 
not maintained since late 2016. What would be the recommended version?

* I had some library file conflict between stock CentOS7 and custom 
packages when compiling gnutls-dane, gnutls-guile and gnutls-c++. As 
there are no dependencies on them, I didn't build support for them ad I 
guess it was safe to side-step them as far as Samba is concerned.

* EPEL lmdb version is 0.9.22 while upstream is 0.9.24. As I have had 
some issues with lmdb backend in the last year, I was wondering if 
testing was done against the latest 0.9.24 or 0.9.22 should be enough?

* when doing some samba-tool command, the logger is configured to be 
very talkative, like "INFO 2019-10-06 23:46:09,446 pid:23294 
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py #453: 
Administrator password will be set randomly!", and looking at the 
get_logger() inherited methods or other eventual configuration, I have 
not found where the talkative pattern is set... (perhaps it is too late 
and I should go to sleep!).

Cheers,

Denis

[1] https://samba.tranquil.it/centos7/samba-4.11.0/
https://samba.tranquil.it/centos7/samba-4.11.0-srcrpm/
[2] https://github.com/sergiomb2/SambaAD
[3] https://github.com/nkadel/compat-gnutls34-3.x-srpm


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