[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

Tue Aug 2 17:04:41 CEST 2011

On Monday, 1 August 2011 22:34:55 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
+> Le Lundi 01 Août 2011 12:36:47 Buchan Milne a écrit :
+> > On Friday, 29 July 2011 20:52:14 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
+> > > Helow
+> > > 
+> > > Specially tu buchan, in my experince, when trying to making work a
+> > > Squid with an ugly wik2k8 we realize that the squid helper is not
+> > > working.
+> > 
+> > I had no problems with this in providing one of the two sets of squid
+> > proxy servers that had a role in presenting the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
+> > (The other set of proxies used Basic authentication against OpenLDAP).
+> > 
+> > > After doing research we realize that samba has a helper that works
+> > 
+> > You mean ntlm_auth, which has been in samba-common for years, and works
+> > with Squid, Apache and FreeRADIUS ?
+> > 
+> > > , i was
+> > > wondering if you can do a subpackage of that helper so the squid may do
+> > > a
+> > > suggests to that only.
+> > 
+> > I need more details ... so far this sounds like a question, not a
+> > proposal.
+> > 
+> > Regards,
+> > Buchan
+> 
+> Yes, itis a prposal
+> 
+> if you can add a subpackage like
+> 
+> samba-helpers inwher eyou place tthe ntlm_auth and others from samba
+> and i then do a suggest from squid to ask for them
+
+Samba-common is the right package for this. I see no need to have a squid-
+specific subpackage (and then samba-apache, samba-freeradius, with the same 
+content, or all virtual packages just pulling samba-common).
+
+Feel free to mess up your squid package by adding suggests on samba-common, 
+but since installing the right package is trivially solved by the admin and is 
+a small portion of the work required, I would personally prefer not to 
+increase the default footprint of any installation that pulls in squid.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+