[OE-core] Migrating from Samba 3 to 4

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Paul D. DeRocco
> 
> A couple years ago, I included Samba 3 in a Yocto (Dylan 
> branch) project,
> and got it working. It included a custom smb.conf file, and an added
> usermap file. I'm doing a new version of that project using 
> the Yocto Fido
> branch, and incorporating Samba 4, whose recipe works differently.
> 
> To provide a custom smb.conf, I simply did the usual 
> .bbappend prepending
> my own files subdirectory containing the new smb.conf. The new recipe
> copies smb.conf explicitly inside a do_install_append() 
> function, so never
> looks for mine.
> 
> To provide a usermap file, I created a do_install_append() 
> that created
> the necessary subdirectories and copied the file. Worked fine.
> 
> Neither of those is working now. The final sysroot contains the stock
> smb.conf and no usermap. I'm a bitbake near-newbie, so I need 
> some help.
> Why wouldn't my do_install_append() be called? Isn't it legal 
> to have one
> in the .bb and another in the .bbappend?
> 
> And what is the now-accepted method of supplying a custom smb.conf?
> Copying it in a do_install_append(), or by running a little 
> script with
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND? Is the latter how I should be 
> doing both of
> these things?

Never mind about usermap: that was cockpit error.

I'm still left with the question: is there a "standard" way of supplying a
custom smb.conf file for Samba 4?

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com