very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun Oct 9 22:25:31 PDT 2005


On Oct 9, 2005, at 7:51 PM, user wrote:

>
> I have a freebsd 5.4-RELEASE system running on a 256 megabyte flash  
> card.
>
> This system does not have the ports tree installed on it.
>
> On another 5.4-RELEASE system I went to /usr/ports/net/samba and  
> ran "make
> package" ... the idea was that I would just copy over this package  
> file
> and run pkg_add on the system.
>
> However, I now see that "make package" does not actually create a full
> package with all the necessary dependencies ... when I try to run
> "pkg_add" I see:
>
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'jpeg-6b_3' with 'graphics/jpeg'  
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'libiconv-1.9.2_1' with
> 'converters/libiconv' origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'png-1.2.8_1' with 'graphics/png'
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'pkgconfig-0.15.0_1' with
> 'devel/pkgconfig' origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'perl-5.8.6_2' with 'lang/perl5.8'
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'gettext-0.14.1' with 'devel/ 
> gettext'
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'popt-1.7' with 'devel/popt' origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'libgpg-error-1.0_1' with
> 'security/libgpg-error' origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'tiff-3.7.1_2' with 'graphics/tiff'
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'libgcrypt-1.2.1' with
> 'security/libgcrypt' origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'gnutls-1.0.24_1' with 'security/ 
> gnutls'
> origin.
> and was not found.
> Package 'samba-2.2.12' depends on 'cups-base-1.1.23.0_3' with
> 'print/cups-base' origin.
> and was not found.
>
>
> So here is my question:
>
> I won't be using this for printing, I can't see what I need jpeg or  
> tiff
> or perl for ... so, is there any more minimal samba that I can  
> build into
> a package and then copy over and install on this system with  
> roughly 15
> megabytes free on ?
>
> Thanks.

     If you just need to mount smb based shares, I believe the base  
portion of the FreeBSD system will do that for you, via mount_smbfs.
-Garrett



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