Bug#593261: re-add wmi-client package
On 08/16/2010 08:00 PM, higuita wrote:
> Package: wmi-client
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Per bug 523638 ( http://bugs.debian.org/523638 ), wmi-cli was removed, but its
> a useful package for those interacting with windows machine. My main use is for
> backuppc backing up windows machines with shadow copy.
>
> As there is still no samba4 package in debian and the upstream finally
> release the winexe as GPL3 and seens to be trying to resync with
> main samba4, maybe debian could re-add this package.
>
> I just compiled the package and seems to work and many people would be
> glad to be able to use this without compiling or using the ancient
> static build that starts to give problems with new windows versions.
> (compiled version works fine)
>
> From:
> http://winexe.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=winexe/winexe;a=commit;h=2cfe0997688065250e8659633ad1e33ee832bde0
Ah that is interesting - didn't know there was a repo on sf.net.
The wmi package was actually the source from zenoss.com, which ships with python
bindings and other stuff which is not included on the sf.net page. I'm still
waiting for the Zenoss guys to switch to GPL-3...
But still, to be able to maintain it properly in the future we would need a
patch which applies properly on top of the current samba4 version, not something
based on an old checkout. I don't really have the time to rebase Andrzej's
patches, but I can talk to one of the Samba upstream developers and ask him to
integrate that code into Samba4, that would be the best idea anyway.
So fixing this will take some time unfortunately- unless somebody else helps out
and keeps porting the winexe patch to recent Samba4 versions, or better, make it
build with samba4-dev.
Cheers,
Bernd
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