[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#408033: smbfs: smbmount-unix-caps.patch no longer needed

dann frazier dannf at debian.org
Fri Feb 2 17:22:38 CET 2007


On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:34:13PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:45:38AM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > > > Note that the kernel change makes some corner use cases impossible without
> > > > some additional userspace changes to samba. Upstream has agreed to accept
> > > > these patches[1], but I don't know if they've been committed yet.
> 
> > > Even if it's still a case that all server-side perms are ignored, dropping
> > > this patch is still an improvement for users wanting symlink support,
> > > apparently.  So I agree with dropping it, as long as we're sure the kernel
> > > changes are in place.
> 
> > Cool. What's the samba team's opinion of the userspace patches going into
> > etch/sarge? Here's a port of the patch that applies to both etch and
> > sarge:
> 
> The patch looks reasonable to me.  Has it been tested?

for a few test cases, yes

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dann frazier





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