Re: Samba and XP support discussion. Where is the XP shares?

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> To continue the question, what should be done in order to include this
> into the formal release?
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> And, I noticed you said that the current upk build process is broken,
> what exactly were the problems you run into? build-helper.sh still is
> able to build all the way to a developer upk.

The problem isn't the upk build process.

Major problems that made this release difficult:

1.) Version number check.  I had to increase the version of my
firmware, or decrease the version stored in  cur_uboot, cur_kernel,
cur_rootfs. I could not flash alternative numbers, or lower version
numbers. This makes reflashing and testing difficult.

2.) I used 0.63 as my base, I had to name my firmware 0.64 to get it
to flash (see #1).  However the upk would still not flash because I
only included root.cramfs and uImage.  Error message was that I had to
update uboot.  This shouldn't not happen, i didn't need to include
uboot but the version checks made it so i had to.  Work around, i had
to go into the OSD and change cur_uboot to 0.64.  Forcing me to
include uboot is dangerous. changing cur_uboot is impossible without a
serial cable making my firmware useless to normal users and testers
without serial cable.

3.) Cannot reflash to official neuros firmware because of #1 and #2 my
versions are higher than Neuros versions.  Making it hard for users,
myself, and impossible again for non serial users to revert away from
custom firmware. (have to manually edit
cur_uboot,cur_kernel,cur_rootfs in OSD env)

4.) Cannot reflash my firmware after I messed it up. See #1, I messed
up some stuff and had to repack my rootfs.  I could not reflash 0.64 i
had to update my version to 0.65,  repeat #1, #2, #3.

The logic in flashing needs to be fixed.

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