Re: should we separate out the cifs utilities from the samba tree?
Christian PERRIER <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.samba.internals,gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Quoting Jeff Layton ([email protected]): > Decoupling the cifs utils from samba would be easier for distro > packagers too. No need to do an entire samba release if there's a > mount.cifs problem and vice versa... From a distro packager point of view, I support this. In some way, it would make our life easier....after making our life slightly temporarily difficult (separate source packages, make sure that things properly move from one package to another, handle dependencies and transitions...)... With the same point of view, I'd vote for this to happen after 3.5, so in 3.6 or whatever it's called. In Debian/Ubuntu, we would also certainly take this opportunity to finally rename the "smbfs" package to "cifs-utils" as there is now quite some time since "smbfs" actually only provides CIFS utilities For the record, here is what we have currently in the "smbfs" package: root@mykerinos:/var/log# dpkg -L smbfs /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/umount.cifs.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mount.cifs.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/cifs.upcall.8.gz /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/smbfs /usr/share/doc/smbfs/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/smbfs/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/smbfs/copyright /usr/share/doc/smbfs/README.build.gz /usr/share/doc/smbfs/TODO.Debian /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/smbfs /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall /sbin /sbin/umount.cifs /sbin/mount.cifs /sbin/mount.smbfs /usr/bin/smbumount /usr/bin/smbmount /usr/share/man/man8/smbumount.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/smbmount.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mount.smbfs.8.gz (mount.smbfs is a transition wrapper for mount.cifs)