FS#15592 - Add Samba4

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee) - Monday, 20 July 2009, 01:51 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 27 July 2009, 08:47 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Samba4 is now in alpha, and is not capable of replacing samba, this is admitted candidly by its devs http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4. However, it does add some capabilities samba does not have. My concern is with evolution-mapi, which depends on samba4 being installed for some of its functionality. I'd like to request that samba4 be made available as an option, the simplest method would be to have it conflict with samba (current version I have is 3.3.6). This would:-
a) Presumable by much simpler than having samba4 installed alongside samba.
b) Be a conscious choice by users. Samba4 should be labelled explicitly as alpha, of course.
c) Enable exchange 2007 functionality in Evolution, mainly for office environments.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 27 July 2009, 08:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  samba4 will be available in arch repos, when final release comming from upstream. For now use the AUR mechanism.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 20:57 GMT
My opinion is that the best way to do this at this moment, is providing the package in AUR by you or any other interested user.
Comment by Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee) - Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 21:56 GMT
Thank you. I have attempted this but without success as yet. I will make the appropriate request.

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