[Freeipa-devel] samba4 woes

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, John Dennis wrote:
>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 :-)
:)

It failed to build due to koji issues, not the build issues.

We had also incompatible libldb in F16/F15 that prevented us going to
alpha18 instead of alpha16 in those distributions.

I hope Andreas (CC:) will be able to look at the issue soon...

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/ Alexander Bokovoy