On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:44:01PM +1100, Ian McWilliam wrote:
> On 20/02/2014 9:00 PM, Sebastian Rother wrote:
> >Dear Brad, dear Ian,
> >
> >Why aint the Version number of the Samba port raised after applying the
> >security patches?
> >
> >>From what I see the most recent version is samba 3.6.22 but OpenBSD
> >includes 3.6.15+&whatever&.
> >
> >If all security patches to 3.6.15 where applied it should be 3.6.22 or?
> >
> >If just the CVE-patches got applied: What's wrong about the other
> >Bugfixes? No new functionality was added.
> >
> >It would be kind if you might could answer me my question about the
> >versioning of this port.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >Sebastian
> >
> >
> 
> Because it's not 3.6.22. It is what is says 3.6.15+ patch level.
> 
> Not all bug fixes post 3.6.15 are rolled in. Only security fixes (thanx
> Brad).
> 
> Look, the Samba folk decided from 3.6.16 to change the build environment
> that had been with the 3.6 branch for 15 releases to python and waf.
> 
> Unfortunately that busted how we handle shared library versioning on
> OpenBSD.
> 
> They changed the build environment for 4.x. No issue. They could have left
> 3.6 that way it was seeing it was to become obsolete when the 4.1 branch was
> released. The world is linux and linux only, no project seems to give a rats
> ass about much else. If it works on linux then it must work
> everywhere..........
> 
> Our in-ports tree waf was out of date to use. Some discussion was had about
> updating this. Not sure what happened after that.

waf is a huge pile of crap. I've switched the two ports that were using
it to use something else, so you can do whatever you want with our
in-tree waf, or you can use the bundled one. If i was to decide, i'll remove it.

Landry

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