[Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with Samba 4.0.5 package

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 15:17 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:48:13AM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> > > From here, I think we need to address the three TODO commits, sort out
> > > the debconf mess and the upgrade/prerm/postint scripts.  I would very
> > > much appreciate assistance with that.
> 
> > I fixed the debconf stuff for now, by moving the templates to the right names
> > for the current packages. This version builds and installs fine. Just running
> > the 'samba' package (with smbd and nmbd) is fine. The samba-ad-dc package
> > installs fine now too, but I didn't get it to work (probably because I never
> > tried running the samba4 ad dc before).
> 
> > We should think about the naming of the packages and the init scripts. The
> > 'samba' package doesn't ship the 'samba' daemon, and the 'samba' init script
> > doesn't control this daemon. Looking at the history, this is expected, but it
> > gets confusing very quickly.
> 
> Oops.  Cf. my latest post about splitting the init scripts. ;)
> 
> Since there will now be a 'samba' daemon in addition to the classic 'smbd'
> and 'nmbd' daemons, what do you think of switching this all in one go, and
> making /etc/init.d/samba control /usr/sbin/samba while the other daemons
> each get their own init script?

As long as:
 - We don't cause total confusion
 - Something more meta causes the system to start the *right* scripts in
the right situation.  Currently due to limitations of what we could do
for 4.0, 'samba' is for the AD DC, and nmbd/smbd/winbindd must not be
used in this situation.  Eventually the Samba team wants to move to
'samba' being the only user-or-system launched process.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org