[yocto] [meta-security][PATCH 2/5] libldb: work around samba libldb packaging issues

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:50:14AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:28:18PM -0700, Armin Kuster wrote:
> > Samba and libldb overlap in a few places. This is the simplest fix for
> > now.
> 
> Adding a quick hack for interaction problems between two packages
> that are both in meta-openembedded by adding a .bbappend in 
> meta-security creates a technical debt while not even helping
> users who are not using meta-security.
> 
> The proper solution is likely to make samba use the external libldb 
> instead of an internal copy.
>...

commit a001e465293b36c03d4ca4500857fe0a67d13e20
Date:   Fri Jul 27 14:09:10 2018 -0700

    samba: Update to 4.8.3
    
    LDB 1.4.0 breaks Samba < 4.9 therefore use internal version


So the root cause is that last summer LDB in meta-openembedded was 
updated to a version not compatible with with the Samba version in 
meta-openembedded.

As workaround Samba was changed to use the internal version
of the library.

What is now proposed is a workaround to fix a regression caused
by the first workaround.

The best way forward would be to upgrade Samba to 4.9 or 4.10 and
use the external LDB again.


cu
Adrian

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