Re: netatalk4 build lacks "ea" support

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 10/15/25 11:17 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> I'm using NetBSD-10 (recent build) and pkgsrc-2025Q3.
>
> This is in mk.conf ...
>
> PKG_OPTIONS.netatalk += kerberos pam dnssd
>
> ... and the result ...
>
> # make show-options
> Any of the following general options may be selected:
>          appletalk
>          debug    Enable debugging facilities in the package.
>          dnssd    Enable DNS Service Discovery Protocol support.
>          kerberos         Enable Kerberos support.
>          ldap     Enable LDAP support.
>          pam      Enable PAM support.
>
> These options are enabled by default:
>          appletalk dnssd pam
>
> These options are currently enabled:
>          appletalk dnssd kerberos pam
>
> You can select which build options to use by setting PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
> or PKG_OPTIONS.netatalk.
>
> ... Also ...
>
> # netatalk -V
> netatalk 4.3.0 - Netatalk AFP server service controller daemon
>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
> under
> the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 
> Software
> Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> version. Please see the file COPYING for further information and details.
>
> netatalk has been compiled with support for these features:
>
>        Zeroconf support:    mDNSResponder
>       Spotlight support:    No
>
>                afp.conf:    /etc/netatalk/afp.conf
>                    afpd:    /usr/pkg/sbin/afpd
>              cnid_metad:    /usr/pkg/sbin/cnid_metad
>      netatalk lock file:    /var/run/netatalk.pid
>
>
>
> But no mention of "extended attributes".

I take it back - was using the wrong command to see the support in afpd!!

# afpd -V
afpd 4.3.0 - Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) daemon of Netatalk

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 
Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. Please see the file COPYING for further information and details.

afpd has been compiled with support for these features:

          AFP versions:	1.1 2.0 2.1 2.2 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
        TCP/IP Support:	Yes
     AppleTalk Support:	Yes
         CNID backends:	dbd last
  Default CNID backend:	dbd
      Zeroconf support:	mDNSResponder
  TCP wrappers support:	Yes
         Quota support:	No
   Admin group support:	Yes
    Valid shell checks:	Yes
      cracklib support:	Yes
            EA support:	ad | sys
           ACL support:	Yes
          LDAP support:	No
         D-Bus support:	No
     Spotlight support:	No
         DTrace probes:	No

              afp.conf:	/etc/netatalk/afp.conf
           extmap.conf:	/etc/netatalk/extmap.conf
       state directory:	/var/db/netatalk/
    afp_signature.conf:	/var/db/netatalk/afp_signature.conf
      afp_voluuid.conf:	/var/db/netatalk/afp_voluuid.conf
       UAM search path:	/usr/pkg/lib/netatalk/
  Server messages path:	/var/db/netatalk/msg/