Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-09 Thread Lars Wendler
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:23:24 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >On 9/1/15 3:24 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: >> * samba upstream is extremely uncooperative. Best example is that we >> still have some automagic dependencies [5] in samba's build system >> and upstream is not very keen on fixing these. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-09 Thread Lars Wendler
Hey all, seems like I need to correct one of my previous said statements. Please see below: On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:24:05 +0200 Lars Wendler wrote: >Hey community, > >for a way too long time Gentoo's samba packages lack the attention they >would require to keep them top notch and as useful as

Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-09 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 9/9/15 4:00 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:23:24 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> I don't see any references to upstream bug reports, and so no evidence >> of upstream being uncooperative. >> >> Are there any public links that you could share? > > Sorry, I forgot about the

Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-02 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Lars Wendler wrote: > * We should really get heimdal and mit-krb5 packages in a shape where > we can install them in parallel [2]. Using the bundled heimdal from > samba is no valid option [3] While bundling a copy of a kerberos implementation is

Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-02 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 9/1/15 3:24 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: > * samba upstream is extremely uncooperative. Best example is that we > still have some automagic dependencies [5] in samba's build system and > upstream is not very keen on fixing these. > > [...] > > [5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/489748 >

Re: [gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Lars Wendler wrote: >> * We should really get heimdal and mit-krb5 packages in a shape where >> we can install them in parallel [2]. Using the bundled heimdal from >> samba is no

[gentoo-dev] samba (and related) packages are in desperate need of help

2015-09-01 Thread Lars Wendler
Hey community, for a way too long time Gentoo's samba packages lack the attention they would require to keep them top notch and as useful as possible for our users. The reason I started to take minimum care of our samba packages was because my former employer used Gentoo on his Linux server