[Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with Samba 4.0.5 package

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 12:17 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 20:34 +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:13:11PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Firstly, has anyone else reproduced my package build yet?  
> > 
> > I got it to build, but I took some shortcuts in my repo to get to that point,
> > so I will need to clean that up before I can push to the public repo.
> > 
> > In the tests I did I saw some issues:
> > 
> > - there is something wrong with the debconf templates (which causes the error
> >   you saw)
> 
> Where are these?
> 
> > - the init script in the 'samba' package is for the 'samba' daemon, not for
> >   'smbd' and 'nmbd'
> > - the samba package doesn't depend on all the needed libraries:
> > smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libdfs_server_ad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> None of the shared library dependencies work.  
> 
> > - the postinst from the 'samba-ad-dc' package fails

I've not seen that, but I think I've fixed the prerm stuff that is
wrong. 

> > - samba-ad-dc doesn't ship an init script
> 
> Oops, I've been pushing files between packages, as part of the rename,
> and it looks like I got that in the wrong one. 

I've fixed that in my latest push to that branch

> > - there is no transitional samba4 package (which should probably depend on
> >   samba-ad-dc)
> 
> Isn't that what a 'replaces: ' tag is for?
> 
> > But when I manually start smbd, I can connect to the samba server (basic test
> > with smbclient).
> 
> Great.

So, how can we get my current branch into a proper repo, that doesn't
need massive hacks to build?

Andrew Bartlett

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