[CentOS] Centos 3 samba upgrade

Tue Sep 20 21:21:49 UTC 2005
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:14 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:07 -0800, Colht, Charles wrote:
> > I want to upgrade my samba installation from 3.0.9-1.3E.3 to 3.0.20
> > without breaking anything along the way :) Any suggestions about order
> > of installation? It looks like I will have to nodeps at least some of
> > the packages. I have everything working with our AD environment so I
> > don't want to disturb it if possible.
> > 
> 
> Is there something in this version of Samba that you need?  If not,
> security updates are backported: 
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
> 
> So, I would not upgrade beyond the version that is included with
> CentOS ...
> 
> If I was going to upgrade because there was a feature I HAD TO HAVE, I
> would only use other RH based upgrades ... like the one from CentOS-4 or
> the versions from FC4 or FC5 beta only (and rebuild the RPMS from the
> SRPMS).
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3.0.20 has a bunch of fixes for interacting with AD environments which
is what is driving his interest. I would expect that RHEL will adopt it
probably soon after 3.0.20b happens.

Craig


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