Hello, Early last year, a patch was accepted into Samba to add a --with-fhs option to configure. For OSes that aspire to follow the FHS (which includes most Linux distros, AFAIK), this is a good thing. Unfortunately, the original patch didn't make Samba's paths completely FHS-compliant, and things have decayed since then to the point that current CVS's terminology and usage bears little real resemblance to the FHS.
Is anyone within the Samba Team interested in seeing this FHS support updated and fleshed out? I'd be happy to supply patches to do so, but if there's really no interest, I may as well create a local patch instead and spare myself the effort of making this mesh nicely with the default directory layout. One way or the other, the patch will be there for Debian's sake, and of course I'd rather see this cleanly integrated upstream (for the benefit of other Linux distros as well as for our own benefit), but that would depend on someone on the inside being willing to follow through on it. Thanks, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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