On Monday 25 February 2013 10:09:50 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the Samba Team has announced [1] that it will remove SWAT from the Samba > > Suite. SWAT is unmaintained and has the most security bugs. > > Andrew, I'm in that thread on the Samba mailing list at > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-February/171643.html. I > don't see an actual decision there, just a call for discussion. Also, > if you decide to remove the samba-swat package from the samba suite, > should it be obsoleted or merely reported as conflicting with new > samba-common releases, to make sure people delete it before doing > upgrades and getting in dependency trouble? It might even be better > pulled as part of the next Samba 4.0.4 package. That's why I stated below that I will remove it when it gets removed in the Samba development tree upstream. I will handle the correct deinstallation of samba-swat when it gets removed but thanks for the idea with handling it in samba-common. I'm sure it will take some time till it gets removed. > And while you're in that package: I've got rewrite of the .spec file > and the other dependencies for RHEL compatibility of 4.0.3. It's up at > https://github.com/nkadel/samba-4.0.3-srpm/, along with RPM building > tools for all the other dependencies below: > > iniparser # not in RHEL > krb5 # Version 1.10 in RHEL 6.4 is good enough > > libtalloc > libtdb > libldb > libtevent I've removed everything for older version on purpose to have a clean spec file. We decided not to support RHEL6 with this. -- Andreas Schneider GPG-ID: 8B7EB4B8 Red Hat asn@xxxxxxxxxx Samba Team asn@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
