[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

Tue Aug 2 22:23:24 CEST 2011

Op dinsdag 02 augustus 2011 17:04:41 schreef Buchan Milne:
+> 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
+
+
+this is really imho an example where conditional suggests could work well: if 
+you have squid already installed and you're installing samba, this subpackage 
+could then be suggested. (and vice versa).
+
+something i would like to see in mageia whenever time allows me to actually 
+work on this feature.
+