samba3: universal variant fails

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #39350.

[darkwalk@…]

This is opened 13 months ago. so I guess its low priority? Any workaround instead? Thanks.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The previous maintainer of the port does not appear to have worked on a solution. The port currently has no maintainer. The workaround is to install samba3 without the universal variant, which of course doesn't help if you require the universal variant. You could also look into the samba4 port and see if it is better-behaved.

[darkwalk@…]

Thanks for the help. can you direct me to the non-universal variant? I googled but couldn't find anything. I am unsure what to google. Thank you!

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

If you type "sudo port install samba3 +universal" you get the universal variant. Or if you put "+universal" in variants.conf. Or if a port you're installing requires that samba3 be installed universal. Otherwise, if you just type "sudo port install samba3", you should not get the universal variant. To explicitly request that you don't want the universal variant, type "sudo port install samba3 -universal". You may need to "sudo port clean samba3" first to clean out your previous failed attempt.

[darkwalk@…]

THank you so much! It worked like a charm. Without specifying, it defaults to universal, so I had to force the install by using -universal.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to darkwalk@…:

Without specifying, it defaults to universal,

Only if you asked for that by putting "+universal" in variants.conf. If you no longer want that, remove "+universal" from variants.conf.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I've disabled the universal variant in r108866 because I'm tired of running into this problem (because I do have +universal in my variants.conf). If someone wants to reintroduce a working universal variant for this port that would be great.