On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Paul Robert Marino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I happen to like systemd. It feels a bit strange, but it's not bad at all.
> And with SL7, it's going to be upon us. If you have problems with it, file
> bugs against F18 *now* and against EL7 beta as soon as possible.

I've gotten the backported Fedora Rawhide Samba-4.0.3 package  to
build on SL 6. Woo-hoo for me. I don't have a good test environment
for it, since my last contract ended and I don't have access to a lot
of test hosts. The critical components to modify are:

      * Use init scripts instead of systemd.
      * Don't pre-deploy documentation into /usr/share/doc/samba-4.0.3
and expect to add it from there, put them in packaging /RHEL/. and add
from there instead.
      * Use "/var/run/samba" instead of "/run/samba" on systems without systemd.
      * Provide updated versions of the the following components,
backported from Fedora rawhide or Fedora 18 as necessary:

           iniparser-3.1  # not present in RHEL 6
           krb5-1.10 # update needed, conflicts with current IPA

The following RPM's need to be built, and installed, in this order due
dependencies.

           libtalloc-2.0.8
           libtdb-1.2.11
           libldb-1.1.15
           libtevent-0.9.17

I'll start pushing these up to https://github.com/nkadel/ for others
to play with, along with the "mock" and "yum" structures I use for
building and accessing these.