Status of samba ports

[Rick Miller]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 7:13 AM Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'd like some information WRT to the status of samba ports, what is
> [not] working, what *should* be working and what is planned.
>

security/sssd with SMB enabled fails to build due to dependency conflicts
w/ Samba, which bundles ldb, tbd, tevent, and talloc. Previous to recent
commits in these past few months, it was possible to build Samba w/o the
bundled libraries, but those commits now install those by default. This
makes building security/sssd with SMB=on impossible.  Several bug reports
describe the problem:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230705
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231846
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238465
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230705>
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231846>

A couple problems contribute to the complexity here:

* security/sssd is woefully out of date at v1.11 while the project is
shipping v2.2
* Samba bundles dependencies
* Recent commits to Samba ports have made it impossible to build SSSD w/
SMB=on

I've not been able to spend any time because of a plethora of competing
priorities though submitted patches can be tested with relative ease. That
said, my preference is to always build/install recent software and
dependencies. Maintaining old software and dependencies is too much work
for so little benefit. This is to say it would be good to see SSSD 2.2 with
a dependency on a recent Samba.


-- 
Take care
Rick Miller