[Freeipa-devel] samba4 woes

[John Dennis]

We're supposed to be working on master now, not 2.2. But master has 
dependencies on samba4. Those dependencies can only be resolved on F17, 
an unreleased platform.

I think it's reasonable for IPA developers to work on the current Fedora 
release (F16) and not have to resort to trying to develop inside a vm or 
run builds inside of mock, etc.

Even the most basic developer task such as running make-lint won't work 
because it requires you run make to populate the generated files. But 
you can't run make because the configure step fails, it fails because it 
can't satisfy the samba4 dependencies. The samba4 dependencies can't be 
satisfied on F16 (I know, I tried).

FWIW, I tried to build samba4-4.0.0-42alpha18.fc17.src.rpm in mock on my 
local F16 machine and it fails because it depends on libldb 1.1.4 which 
is only in F17, and so on and so on.

So how are others working on master and how are you getting around this 
problem?

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