[Samba] Limitations in packages of Samba 4.0 (particularly pre-releases)

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Hai Andrew,  

you wrote 
>The same applies to Debian/Ubuntu, which has for the same reason
>packaged pre-releases of Samba 4.0 to support OpenChange.  These
>packages are also not full packages of the final Samba 4.0.  On
>samba-technical I've posted a link to the start of the packaging work
>I've done to fix that. 
>

Can you provide the link for me, so i can look at it. 

Im looking atm to rebuild the debian experimental samba4 back to squeeze or im going to use the sernet packages. 
I like the sernet appliance packages because of the integrated zarafa schemas. 
I saw samba4 has mismatch with the debian stable samba3, do you know is this also applies for samba 3.6.6 ( from backports ) 

Best regards, 

Louis



>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: abartlet at samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] 
>Namens Andrew Bartlett
>Verzonden: woensdag 19 december 2012 23:55
>Aan: Tom McArthur
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: [Samba] Limitations in packages of Samba 4.0 
>(particularly pre-releases)
>
>On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 19:05 -0500, Tom McArthur wrote:
>> According to the Samba documentation, the manpages are 
>supposed to be 
>> installed with Samba. Quote:
>> 
>> docs/manpages: You don't need to worry about these yet; during the 
>> installation, the files will be installed so that you can 
>use the man 
>> command to read them. But you can take a look in the 
>directory to see 
>> which manpages are available.
>> 
>> My problem:
>> 
>> Samba4 on 64bit Fedora 17 will not install the manpages, 
>other than a 
>> bare-bones "samba" page. Specifically, it will not install the 
>> "smb.conf" page.
>> 
>> What I tried:
>> 
>> I tried reinstalling Samba with the following commands:
>> 
>> sudo yum reinstall samba4
>> sudo yum reinstall samba4-devel
>> sudo yum reinstall samba4-common
>> sudo yum reinstall samba4-libs
>> 
>> No luck - "man smb.conf" still gave a "No manual entry for 
>smb.conf" error.
>
>The samba4 on Fedora 17 is not a complete Samba4, it is just some parts
>(libraries) to support OpenChange and FreeIPA.  Therefore it does not
>include manpages for the parts that are still based on Samba 3.x, which
>was the official release of Samba at the time of the Fedora 17 release.
>
>You can, as you noted before, install from source.
>Just /usr/local/samba won't be in your path, it won't be in the man
>path, as you noticed.  
>
>Any further issues with the deficiencies in the Fedora packages (like
>the lack of AD DC support) need to be addressed to Fedora, as we don't
>provide the packages.
>
>The same applies to Debian/Ubuntu, which has for the same reason
>packaged pre-releases of Samba 4.0 to support OpenChange.  These
>packages are also not full packages of the final Samba 4.0.  On
>samba-technical I've posted a link to the start of the packaging work
>I've done to fix that. 
>
>Andrew Bartlett
>
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