On 19 October 2013 23:15, Wulf C. Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > After having worked with Samba for almost 20 years, I'm giving up now. > > I have submitted patches upstream when Samba (and I :) ) was young, > I've proof-read books on Samba and NTLM but where they're going, I > can't follow them any more. > > - - Samba 4.1.0 doesn't even build for me any more and I'm too > frustrated to figure it out. > > - - In Samba 4.1.0, SWAT (the configuration web interface) seems to have > been removed. I might be missing something but if I'm not, that sucks.
It has; I discovered this trying to work out why I couldn't get it to build on 4.0.9 and upstream says they removed it because it's old, full of bugs and security exploits. > > - - Samba's "new" crappy build system WAF is just horrible and I simply > don't understand it. I asked for help (and it was offered) but nothing > was ever done. > > - - New versions of Samba 4 try to build against already installed > versions in the live filesystem and I don't understand WAF enough to > fix that. > > I've just removed myself from BUGS_TO. If you want it, take it but if > you do, do me a favour and do a better job than me and make sure > you're weird enough to understand (and ideally like) WAF. >From what I remember of a talk Tridge gave to the local LUG on WAF, this is more along the lines of "understand Samba's customised WAF", as the intent of WAF was for people to grab a copy, shove it in their package's repository and customise it as needed. > > - -- > Best regards, Wulf > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJid8sACgkQnuVXRcSi+5olTwCeOwXBFTTyhLHM1d6L+ZROB/s0 > v4MAn1pTMpohA7i173Aw4YnXv9GLhxe5 > =xLBv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [email protected] http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
