On Wed, Jul 05 2023, Ian McWilliam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> c. april 2016….. Jeremie wrote:
>
>
>> on Tuesday the samba team will release major security patches.  You may
>> have heard of
>> 
>>  http://badlock.org/ <http://badlock.org/>
>> 
>> samba-4.1 is EOL upstream, thus they won't release a new version.
>> 
>> At $WORK we've been recognized as samba vendors, meaning that we have
>> access to the bug, diffs and upcoming tarballs.  The diff applied to
>> 4.2+ is huge, I don't think it's reasonable for us to try to backport
>> it.  Right now I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3.6...
>
> If memory serves me, there was an issue at the time linking to lib archive 
> and as no one else was testing
> and didn’t use the feature, I think it was agreed to look at this at a later 
> date.
>
> So, this was removed in the middle of a major Samba security, coupled with 
> moving to newer major versions,
> in a short period of time.
>
> I think that covers it. I have no issue if the feature makes its way back 
> into the port.

Same here, I'll just include it in the next update to samba-4.18.

-- 
jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF  DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE

Reply via email to