[Buildroot] [PATCH v3, 1/1] package/samba4: Do not force target python

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Jan 8 08:32:50 UTC 2020


On Fri,  3 Jan 2020 14:43:41 +0100
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Samba does not need python on the target for file server functionality.
> It does need it for the Active Directory Domain Controller feature,
> which is already configured in buildroot as optional and already depends
> on python3 since commit 4485a75859fbae99090b065ddd7c088a65571d37.
> 
> An unnecessary target python greatly increases the size of the target
> filesystem. A somewhat minimal configuration with a samba server shunk
> from an 82 MB rootfs to 53 MB with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <trent.piepho at synapse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes v2 -> v3 (after review of Thomas Petazzoni):
>  - Only drop select in Config.in

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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