[Samba] Samba 4.0.6 Ubuntu Package Available

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 17:44 -0500, Andrew Martin wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Bartlett" <abartlet at samba.org>
> > To: "Mike Ray" <mray at xes-inc.com>
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 5:07:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 4.0.6 Ubuntu Package Available
> > 
> > On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 16:10 -0500, Mike Ray wrote:
> > > Hello everyone-
> > > 
> > > Just a quick little blurb to anyone interested: I've spend some
> > > time packaging Samba4 for Ubuntu 12.04 and I believe it is finally
> > > "ready".
> > > 
> > > A couple of notes about the package:
> > > 
> > > - it is compiled from the 4.0.6 tarball available from Samba
> > > - it has packages for amd64 and i386* class machines
> > > - it requires various other non-stable class packages
> > > - it uses the file system hierarchy
> > > - BIND9_DLZ as a dns-backend has issues with replication between
> > > DCs due to a TKEY error that I have not figured out* *
> > > - it contains 2 totally unofficial, handcrafted patches -- very
> > > briefly one fixed an issue with environment variable substitution
> > > and the the other adds some flexibility to samba_dnsupdate to skip
> > > IP addresses
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If anyone wants to give it a try, all the necessary packages are
> > > available from here: ppa:xespackages/samba4
> > > Though if you are not going to use bind, you can omit the
> > > "bind9-upstart" package.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm going to be testing with it before it goes live at my place;
> > > however, any feedback -- either on the package itself or on the
> > > functionality of the resulting Samba install -- is greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A huge shout-out to the Samba Team for developing this software .
> > > A personal shout-out to Jelmer for his help in packaging matters .
> > 
> > Just wondering, are you basing it around the Debian experimental
> > packages I've been working with the debian packaging team on?
> > 
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-samba/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/samba_4.0
> > 
> > git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-samba/samba.git
> > 
> > (The reason I ask is that we need help finishing the work, and I'm
> > trying to avoid double-work and get a finished package ready for
> > everyone).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
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> > Andrew Bartlett
> >                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> > Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
> > 
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> 
> Andrew,
> 
> We (Mike Ray and I) started with the samba4_4.0.3+dfsg1-0.1.debian.tar.gz from 
> Debian Experimental here (probably more outdated than the git repo you linked):
> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/samba4
> 
> We then updated debian/rules - removing things that appeared to no longer be 
> necessary and working to get the package to build, install, and run successfully.

Yes, there has been significant work since then.  I'm sorry to hear you
have had to duplicate that.  Your assistance with the new package for
jesse would be most valuable. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org