Bug 446349

Summary:	libsmbclient requires samba-windbind (and samba-common)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Simo Sorce <ssorce>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	adamcohen, rdieter
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Description Oded Arbel 2008-05-14 08:23:14 UTC

Description of problem:
libsmbclient requires that samba-winbind be installed, which in turn requires
samba-common. As libsmbclient is required by GNOME (by gvfs) any gnome
installation requires samba-common.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.0-1.pre3.9.fc9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora with GNOME and without samba
  
Actual results:
samba-common is installed by default

Expected results:
samba-common should only be installed if Samba is to be installed, as it was in
Fedora 8

Additional info:
The problem is that libsmbclient requires libwbclient.so from samba-winbind. I
think that its easy to solve this problem by changing the samba SPEC to put
libwbclient.so in libsmbclient and having samba-winbind depend on libsmbclient
instead of the other way around (it also makes more sense to me - applications
should depend on libraries and not the other way around).

Specifically my problem is that I want to install Samba4 (from 3rd party RPM)
and it conflicts with files from 3.2.0 samba-common and samba-winbind (as it
should) but I can't remove them without botching my GNOME installation.

Comment 1 Guenther Deschner 2008-06-25 13:54:31 UTC

That's not so easy, as libwbclient.so is entirely useless without winbindd. It's
really a frontend library to this. 

What we should investigate is the requirement of libsmbclient to link against it.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2008-07-03 14:53:40 UTC

nod, this adds a considerable footprint to live images, so any work to be able
to omit samba-common would be much appreciated.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:47:11 UTC

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Comment 4 Oded Arbel 2009-06-10 08:58:31 UTC

This is still an issue with Fedora 11

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 12:02:55 UTC

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Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2010-04-27 12:28:55 UTC

A consolation is that this seems fixed in f13 at least.

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 10:36:36 UTC

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