[Samba] Bind 9.12.x support status

[Elias Pereira]

Hello taner and guys,

Can you send me the patch? I would like to test on a version of samba 4.9
with bind 9.12.x.

Thanks in advance!

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 11:32 AM Taner Tas via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:28:38 +1200
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 22:37 +0300, Taner Tas wrote:
> > > > Nobody has looked into it yet.  Likely just an extra build rule
> > > > required, I would need to see the 9.11 and 9.12 DLZ header files to
> > > > check.
> > > >
> > > > Aaron Haslett (CC'ed) may be able to help once he fights past the
> other
> > > > BIND9 issues he is looking at.
> > > >
> > > > Andrew Bartlett
> > >
> > > Thanks for response. I actually looked it myself. Since there is no
> > > DLZ ABI changes since 9.11, I reckon as it would be easy as making
> > > "python/samba/provision/sambadns.py" aware of Bind 9.12 will do the
> > > job without any hassle.
> > >
> > > Any extra build routine for 9.12 will do things complicated
> > > without a sensible reason. I prepared a patch and tested it locally.
> > > It seems it just works fine during provision and as a dns backend.
> > >
> > > Patch attached.
> >
> > Thanks for comfirming that.  That said, I would prefer the extra 9.12
> > (identical) .so from the build system just because otherwise I'll spend
> > my days telling folks it will work when they ask why it loads 9.11 into
> > 9.12.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
>
> Thanks. I want to notice that, you'll follow the same routine for 9.13
> that seems ABI remains same, and maybe for other next releases. So, this
> is
> right time for decide which strategy you will follow.
>
> As myself, I opt for simplicity, extra build routine may added only when
> really needed. By this way, we are able to follow ABI changes with each
> separate "dlopen" line in named.conf.dlz. This is just my thought as an
> user. As developers, you are the ones who's going to deal with all odds
> afterwards.
>
> I can send a patch for build extra dlz module for 9.12. I can send it if
> you
> interested.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Taner Tas <taner76 at gmail.com>
>
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Elias Pereira