[CentOS-devel] re/building Samba from git sources

R P Herrold

herrold at owlriver.com
Thu Apr 23 16:14:00 UTC 2020


On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Trevor Hemsley via CentOS-devel wrote:

> It would probably help if you read the wiki article on how to do this.
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/Sources

That page has problems, and does not work as written.  There 
is problem doing the lookaside, or such 

The script seems also to already be +x, so the admonition to 
set is +x is not needed

[herrold at centos-8 ~]$ find centos-git-common -name get_sources.sh -a -exec ls -al {} \;
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 herrold herrold 6456 Apr 23 12:06 centos-git-common/centos-git-common/get_sources.sh
[herrold at centos-8 ~]$ 

-- Russ herrold


worked example of the defect as to samba :
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[herrold at centos-8 ~]$ mkdir centos-git-common
[herrold at centos-8 ~]$ cd centos-git-common
[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ git clone  https://git.centos.org/centos-git-common.git
Cloning into 'centos-git-common'...
remote: Counting objects: 217, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (213/213), done.
remote: Total 217 (delta 0), reused 217 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (217/217), 131.34 KiB | 1.06 MiB/s, done.
[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ find . -name get_sources.sh
./centos-git-common/get_sources.sh
[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ ln -s ./centos-git-common/get_sources.sh ~/bin/
[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ git clone https://git.centos.org/rpms/samba.git
Cloning into 'samba'...
remote: Counting objects: 660, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (578/578), done.
remote: Total 660 (delta 71), reused 611 (delta 39)
Receiving objects: 100% (660/660), 1.48 MiB | 1.57 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (71/71), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ ls -al samba
total 24
drwxrwxr-x. 3 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 .
drwxrwxr-x. 4 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 7 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 .git
[herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ 



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