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Date:      Sat, 7 Jan 2017 13:42:57 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [samb4] Where Is The User Database?
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Derek Schrock <dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 04:54:39AM EST, Martin S. Weber wrote:
> > On 2017-01-06 18:31:52, Derek Schrock wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 05:54:39PM EST, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > > > On 01/06/2017 04:43 PM, Derek Schrock wrote:
> > > > > /var/db/samba4/private/ is that the new location?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yep, you nailed it, that's where it lives now.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks ...
> > > >
> > > > (It never occurred to me to read the smb manpages ... D'oh ... :)
> > >
> > > The location is altered in the ports Makefile hence the difference
> > > between the man page and installation.
> >
> > If the port Makefile alters the path in one file, it should alter the
> > path in all files. That's a bug in the port.
>
> This would be a bug with samba configure/build not the port.  If you
> provide an alt location for lock dir, config file name, etc (search for
> SAMBA4_PORTNAME in net/samba4[34]/Makefile) then I would expect samba to
> update its own installed documentation.
>

Why in the world would Samba honor FreeBSD Ports specific variables?
Should Samba then honor variables set by whatever buildframe work the
project is pulled into?  Can you name a single other non-FreeBSD specific
port which does this?

This is incumbent on the port itself, not the project.

-- 
Adam



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