[gluster-packaging] samba-vfs-glusterfs for CentOS8

[Anoop C S]

On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 07:34 -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:28 AM Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 08:29:23PM +0000, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> > > Hi Niels,
> > > 
> > > do you have any idea in which repo I can find gluster-vfs-samba
> > package for CentOS8 and CentOS Stream ?
> > > It seems that I can't find it and I'm not sure if it is related
> > to the module concept introduced in CentOS 8.
> > 
> > Hi Strahil,
> > 
> > Sorry, I don't know where these packages are maintained. Maybe
> > Anoop can
> > point us in the right direction.
> 
> I suppose you mean the samba-vfs-glusterfs package. At least that's
> its name in Fedora[1]. It's part of Samba, if whoever built Samba
> enabled it in the build.
> 
> There are two potential sources of Samba in CentOS: the one that's in
> the base is the same as what's in RHEL, which doesn't have any of the
> VFSes enabled[2];

Most probably because RHEL 8 doesn't ship samba-vfs-glusterfs.

> and there could be one in the Storage SIG, but nobody has built it
> there in six years[3]
> 
> It'd be nice if the Samba community would participate more in CentOS,
> and in the Storage SIG in particular.

Once we started off this initiative but did not make much progress
other than creating "samba" dis-git repository under CentOS-Storage-
SIG(~4 years back). We will try to look into its possibilities moving
forward.

> --
> 
> Kaleb
> 
> [1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1534127
> [2] http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
> [3] https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7
> 
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