Re: Samba and Netatalk (any package using talloc) cannot coexist

On 8/5/24 16:15, Andy Lemin wrote:
> Hi List!

Hello.



> I reported this to Netatalk, and they advised that we ask your opinions?

I'm not the port maintainer, but I'll try to answer anyway...



> Simply samba419 port demands that talloc is _not_ installed, as samba 
> bundles talloc.

That's an option: you can try modifying the value of 
SAMBA4_BUNDLED_TALLOC in the Makefile to no.
I'm not sure it will even build, however.
See:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280510
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280557



> However this means that no other packages (including Netatalk) can also 
> use talloc on the same server, as trying to install talloc results in 
> samba being removed.

That's the rationale behind those bug reports.



> Conflict causing one or the other to be removed;
> 'talloc-2.3.4_1 conflicts with samba419-4.19.7 on 
> /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/talloc.cpython-311.so'
> 
> We can understand why samba want to bundle talloc, but wonder if this is 
> actually a porting issue instead?

It *is* a porting issue.



  bye
	av.