OAV & Samba 3.0.26a

bajaguy · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: OAV & Samba 3.0.26a

here's a weird one.

I've added the OAV flag to my make.conf. I've added the flag to samba under package.use:

net-fs/samba ads oav readline cups pam ldap acl swat kerberos quotas winbind

Yet, when I go to re-emerge samba, I get this:

MotivatedTea · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:06 am Post subject:

Check http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-fs/samba: the oav flag appears to have disappeared after 3.0.24-r3. In your emerge output, when you omit the oav flag, it says it will Re-merge the current version, which is 3.0.26a. When you include oav, it says it will Downgrade to 3.0.24-r3. As to why it wants to downgrade in that case, I don't know. (Maybe there's an exclusion somewhere, but if there is, it doesn't look like it's a direct dependency of samba.)

bajaguy · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject: Umm..??

Not according to this:

http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/ebuild.php?cat=net-fs&pkg=samba&v=3.0.26a

zach9824 · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 37

Has anyone figured out why oav was removed from the use flags on Samba in ~arch?

gentoo-heysa · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Herzogenrath

i have the same problem...

i cant reach any samba shares if "vfs object = vscan-clamav" is set

and i think the mising use flag is the rason, too!

But where ever you google around you just find howtos that uses oav.......
nobody here with an answer where the use flag is turned or howto get samba work with clamav without this flag??

HK · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

I came across the same problem. So, are the only 2 possibilities to either go back to the vulnerable samba 3.0.24-rX or to stay without a realtime antivirus on the samba server? Any suggestions?

Shink · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:

Same problem here - submitted Gentoo bug 199939.

Shink · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

Looks like OAV was removed on purpose - I guess there's no more antivirus support for Samba

Bugzilla Bug 199769

net-fs/samba-3.0.26a-r2.ebuild "oav" flag (vscan) lost

------- Comment #3 From Tiziano Müller 2007-11-20 21:19:48 0000 [reply] -------
The oav USE-flag has been dropped on purpose together with the oav-patch.

Reasons:
a) unmaintained since March 2005
b) Compilation broken (for version 3.0.26 and surely for 3.0.27)
c) Even if it compiles, it is broken due to API changes in the Samba-Code
d) The patch itself is broken by design since it relies on API's being stable
which are not marked as such.

zach9824 · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 37

Thanks Shink.

I also added the your bug information to gentoo-portage, to save others the hassle of figuring out what happened. I hope that the maintainer of the package can add some einfo information to the ebuild output explaining that this flag is no longer applicable and to change your configuration files to reflect the change.

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-fs/samba

gentoo-heysa · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Herzogenrath

pehaps the package maintainer can also explain why he has removed the flag on purpose.

cant believe that antivirus support should be so bad and unuseful :-/

gentoo-heysa · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Herzogenrath

OH SHIT!

it is also advantageous if i read others's texts
(wer lesen kann ist klar im vorteil

the reasons are listed in shinks last post!!!

:roll:

barikman · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 15

Firstly, thanks for all the contributions above. Once more the Gentoo forums got me out of a hole!

Secondly, the online Gentoo docs here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml

need updating as they tell you to use OAV.

Toodles

Phil