[Mageia-dev] Samba update to 3.5.8

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday, 13 May 2011 12:28:45 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 13/05/11 11:16 did gyre and gimble:
> > I have finally got a bit of time to get busy with Mageia packaging (my
> > first VM was on virtio disk on Mandriva 2010.1/kvm, and there seem to be
> > some corruption problems, I finally got time to reinstall it yesterday).
> > 
> > Since I have just finished samba/samba4 updates in Cooker, I would like
> > to update Cauldron to the same.
> > 
> > Specifically, what we miss between 3.5.5+CVE is:
> > 
> > 
> > New in 3.5.8:
> > o  Fix Winbind crash bug when no DC is available (bug #7730).
> > o  Fix finding users on domain members (bug #7743).
> > o  Fix memory leaks in Winbind (bug #7879).
> > o  Fix printing with Windows 7 clients (bug #7567).
> > 
> > New in 3.5.6:
> >   o Fix smbd panic on invalid NetBIOS session request (bug #7698).
> >   o Fix smbd crash caused by "%D" in "printer admin" (bug #7541).
> >   o Fix crash bug with invalid SPNEGO token (bug #7694).
> >   o Fix Winbind internal error (bug #7636).
> > 
> > Unfortunately, "samba features", if absent, are usually "samba bugs",
> > such as printing with Windows 7 clients etc.
> > 
> > If this is viable, I will try and commit updates to the following in svn
> > between now and 15h00 UTC:
> > 
> > -tdb 1.2.9 (done)
> > -ldb 1.1.0 (import)

I could probably submit this now, but it (build)requires tdb-1.2.9. Its other 
requirement, fixed package names/provides for talloc, has just finished 
building.

> > -samba-3.5.8
> > -samba4alpha15 (alpha11 was imported about 2 days before I finished
> > alpha15 in Mandriva)
> > 
> > Please let me know if I should go ahead. tdb should be pushed in the
> > meantime in this case.
> 
> While this is very late in the cycle, the changes to samba look like
> bugfixes to me and the samba4alpha package is likely one we can push
> through the freeze anyway due to it's nature.
> 
> So IMO the only question is the tdb and ldb. Are these just bug fixes
> too? (as ldb is an import it's less of an issue - is it just needed for
> samba4?)

Both samba3 and samba4 require newer versions of tdb, and ldb, I've switched 
to using standalone versions of all the common libraries 
(talloc,tdb,tevent,ldb) now that they actually seem to be released before 
versions of samba3/samba4 that need them.

(By default, without the libraries, both versions of samba would build static-
only copies, or you can choose to build shared libraries, but it ends up being 
more convoluted having them in one or the other of samba3 or samba4).

Regards,
Buchan