Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/39203: Unclear BREAK message in port net/samba Message-ID: <200206122110.g5CLA2O19938@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/39203; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
To: "Lev A. Serebryakov" <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
Cc: "FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/39203: Unclear BREAK message in port net/samba
Date: 12 Jun 2002 14:06:04 -0700
This PR certainly clears things up for me! Like the author, I was
unhappy to discover Samba "broken" after the change.
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 13:58, Lev A. Serebryakov wrote:
>
> >Number: 39203
> >Category: ports
> >Synopsis: Unclear BREAK message in port net/samba
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Responsible: freebsd-ports
> >State: open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class: change-request
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 12 14:00:05 PDT 2002
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Lev A. Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
> >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD freebsd.sereb.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #1: Sat Dec 8 13:48:40 MSK 2001 root@freebsd.sereb.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEVMAIL i386
> Ports collection: 13 Jun 2002
>
>
> >Description:
>
> net/samba port support ACLs only under FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT.
> But new dialog(1)-based configuration script allows to select ACLs
> feature on any system. If user selects ACLs on 4.x or other old
> system, port systyem (via make(1)) prints this message:
>
> ===> samba-2.2.4_1 is marked as broken: Requires a recent FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT.
>
> And after that `make install' would not work at all.
>
> User, who doesn't know about how ACLs support is implemented, could not
> understand, WHY is samba broken on 4.x.
>
> I think, message should be replaced with somethin like this:
>
> ACL support requires a recent FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
>
> or, even better, `scripts/configure.samba' should detect old system
> and add `ACL support' checkbox only on new ones.
>
> I thinke, both of this changes could be done.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
>
> Try to select ACL support on 4.x system
>
>
> >Fix:
>
> I don't prepare any pathses, but fix of message is trivial and
> fix for script could be like this:
>
> OSVERSION=`make -V OSVERSION`
> if [ ${OSVERSION} -le 500018 ]; then
> ACL_PARAM="acl \"With ACL support\" OFF"
> else
> ACL_PARAM=""
> fi
>
> And after this add ${ACL_PARAM} to dialog(1) command line.
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>
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