On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:16:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek scribbled: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:22:55PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > For the tdb-tools package? Well, the debian/copyright file says > > > > This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > > > Mon, 7 May 2001 18:03:17 +0200. > > > > It was downloaded from http://samba.org/ > > > This is the bit that doesn't quite add up. > > > > Upstream Author: Andrew Tridgell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > And the upstream version number is 1.0.6... > > > It appears that the debian package is the spun off version from sf.net, > > patched back to look like mainline Samba 3.0.5. Perhaps it would be Well, that's what's happened later on when it became apparent that the sf.net version was most probably unmaintained.
> > better to have it built from the samba source package? > > Is there currently a good way to do that? The tdb-tools package seems to > include some tools that aren't present in the samba 3.0.14a source/tdb/ > directory, and the makefile only covers building tdbbackup, tdbdump, and > tdbtool (tdbtest and tdbtorture appear to be present in the source, but not > built). > > I don't mind building a tdb package out of the samba source tree, but I > don't really know which tools have to be in it. It would indeed make more sense to build the package from the samba sources now. The tools that are, IMHO, required to be present in the package are the ones built by samba by default, tdbtest and tbtorture are quite optional and could be included just for completness. best regards, marek
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