package: samba version: 2:3.6.15-1 severity: wishlist
----- Forwarded message from Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> ----- Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 21:12:30 +1200 From: Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> To: Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with Samba 4.0.5 package On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 08:10 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Andrew Bartlett ([email protected]): > > > When I install the built package (which now include even more of the > > original samba package), I get: > > > > Setting up samba (2:4.0.5+dfsg1-2.0) ... > > Generating /etc/default/samba... > > sed: -e expression #1, char 59: unknown option to `s' > > dpkg: error processing samba (--install): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > > status 1 > > > All this is related to the debconf option to decide about running > daemons as standalone or from inetd. Is it even still supported > upstream to run samba daemons from inetd? > > IIRC, we talked about dropping this even in Samba3 packages, because I > think there are very very very few people running samba from inetd > now. I even wonder if this is still supported..:-) It is still officially supported, but increasingly untested and unwise as we need more and more long-term services, which we start at startup (such as to handle spoolss properly). If you can drop it then that will make it easier for us to drop upstream. > What is the result of running the attached script? Use of uninitialized value $action in string eq at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 27. 10 samba/run_mode doesn't exist -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org _______________________________________________ Pkg-samba-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-samba-maint ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

