[Mageia-dev] Samba update to 3.5.8

Fri May 13 13:08:31 CEST 2011

On Friday, 13 May 2011 12:28:45 Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 13/05/11 11:16 did gyre and gimble:
+> > I have finally got a bit of time to get busy with Mageia packaging (my
+> > first VM was on virtio disk on Mandriva 2010.1/kvm, and there seem to be
+> > some corruption problems, I finally got time to reinstall it yesterday).
+> > 
+> > Since I have just finished samba/samba4 updates in Cooker, I would like
+> > to update Cauldron to the same.
+> > 
+> > Specifically, what we miss between 3.5.5+CVE is:
+> > 
+> > 
+> > New in 3.5.8:
+> > o  Fix Winbind crash bug when no DC is available (bug #7730).
+> > o  Fix finding users on domain members (bug #7743).
+> > o  Fix memory leaks in Winbind (bug #7879).
+> > o  Fix printing with Windows 7 clients (bug #7567).
+> > 
+> > New in 3.5.6:
+> >   o Fix smbd panic on invalid NetBIOS session request (bug #7698).
+> >   o Fix smbd crash caused by "%D" in "printer admin" (bug #7541).
+> >   o Fix crash bug with invalid SPNEGO token (bug #7694).
+> >   o Fix Winbind internal error (bug #7636).
+> > 
+> > Unfortunately, "samba features", if absent, are usually "samba bugs",
+> > such as printing with Windows 7 clients etc.
+> > 
+> > If this is viable, I will try and commit updates to the following in svn
+> > between now and 15h00 UTC:
+> > 
+> > -tdb 1.2.9 (done)
+> > -ldb 1.1.0 (import)
+
+I could probably submit this now, but it (build)requires tdb-1.2.9. Its other 
+requirement, fixed package names/provides for talloc, has just finished 
+building.
+
+> > -samba-3.5.8
+> > -samba4alpha15 (alpha11 was imported about 2 days before I finished
+> > alpha15 in Mandriva)
+> > 
+> > Please let me know if I should go ahead. tdb should be pushed in the
+> > meantime in this case.
+> 
+> While this is very late in the cycle, the changes to samba look like
+> bugfixes to me and the samba4alpha package is likely one we can push
+> through the freeze anyway due to it's nature.
+> 
+> So IMO the only question is the tdb and ldb. Are these just bug fixes
+> too? (as ldb is an import it's less of an issue - is it just needed for
+> samba4?)
+
+Both samba3 and samba4 require newer versions of tdb, and ldb, I've switched 
+to using standalone versions of all the common libraries 
+(talloc,tdb,tevent,ldb) now that they actually seem to be released before 
+versions of samba3/samba4 that need them.
+
+(By default, without the libraries, both versions of samba would build static-
+only copies, or you can choose to build shared libraries, but it ends up being 
+more convoluted having them in one or the other of samba3 or samba4).
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+