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#26797
qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
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Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 10:27:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: easy
Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 26797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> See commit b344c505f4dff2ecbe981f0a0a3c3d67b222dcca, which removed the
> dependency and Samba. Prior to that commit, QEMU recorded the absolute
> file name of ‘smbd’.
>
> The problem is that Samba is big:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size qemu |tail -1
> total: 710.5 MiB
> $ guix size qemu samba |tail -1
> total: 1203.5 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Right, that’s not good.
> Thus it’d be best if we modified QEMU to search for ‘smbd’ in $PATH.
I agree! I can’t work on this right now, unfortunately, but I’ll
revisit this at some point in the future if nobody else beats me to it.
Thanks for your input!
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Ricardo
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