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

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 06:46:34AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > 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?

> How can we handle the transition for our majority of users who are
> running File and Print Services with no need for the AD DC part?

The switch from /etc/init.d/samba to /etc/init.d/[ns]mbd would be
transparent for users, except if they're trying to call the init script
directly (as you point out).  It's certainly *possible* to add an
/etc/init.d/samba wrapper (with no start/stop links in /etc/rc?.d) for
compatibility, if that's what we want.

However, I wonder if this isn't simply postponing the inevitable.  If the DC
daemon is named 'samba', then having an init script named 'samba' which
doesn't launch that, and another init script with a different name which
does launch it, will be very confusing.  Maybe if this confusion is very
short-term it's ok.  Or maybe the guarantee we make is "/etc/init.d/samba
will always start the file and print services"?

Either way, as I've pointed out I think the actual split into nmbd and smbd
init scripts is necessary for compatibility with other init systems, for as
long as we'll be running these daemons.  And we can figure out exactly what
to do with /etc/init.d/samba separately from this.

> My first idea would have been to leave things as they are with
> /etc/init.d/samba launching smbd and nmbd and something else
> (/etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc?) launching samba.

Do you want me to add an /etc/init.d/samba wrapper as part of this
conversion?  Otherwise, I think my 'init-script-split-and-upstart-jobs'
branch in git is more or less complete now and ready for merging to master.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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