gjgowey@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:

My thoughts:

Uninstall the current version using yum, grab the source tgz for the version for the version you want from samba, and compile it using --prefix=/usr/local/mysamba to put all of that ver in that directory. Then when you want to use the latest again delete the mysamba dir and install the new ver with yum.

Actually to take Geoff's idea 1 further, install locally compiled version of samba into prefix /usr/local/samba like Geoff stated, but keep the binaries off the path, then use 'alternatives' to link in your locally compiled version to their /usr/bin location so it appears as a standard install.

You can then use the rpm relocate feature to install the distro version of samba into prefix /usr/samba and provide a second 'alternative' for the distro version of samba.

-Ross

-----Original Message----- From: "Jason Pyeron" jpyeron@pdinc.us

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:49:42 To:"'CentOS mailing list'" centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Downgrade samba?

After reading http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-November/001828.html what would the best approach for downgrading samba-3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 to 2.7 on centos4, then later upgrading back to current?

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