[Freeipa-devel] samba4 woes

[John Dennis]

On 04/20/2012 01:35 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, John Dennis wrote:
>> 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).
> Please try http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4009116
>
> We are trying to make sure samba4 development packages and libraries are
> installable in parallel to samba3 libraries so that other F16 components
> would continue working. Unfortunately, it is a bit more complicated than
> needed due to versioning symbols in multiple libraries. The update above
> should solve the issues.
>
>> 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?
> Updated F16 build is
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4009116

Did you notice the koji builds you referenced failed to build? This is 
why I tried to do a local mock build of the srpm, which also failed due 
to libldb dependencies. Which is what caused me to write the original 
mail :-)


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