[CentOS] Re: CentOS Repo Questions (and Samba)

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Dec 4 20:04:43 UTC 2007


on 12/4/2007 10:27 AM Bit spake the following:
> Hello,
> 
> I have two questions which are really CentOS repository related, but 
> they primarily revolve around the Samba packages available.
> 
> 1)  Why is the s390 architecture version of Samba for CentOS 4 so much 
> more up to date than the i386 architecture version?  If you open these 
> two links in a browser window...
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/s390/RPMS/
> and compare the available rpms, the s390 version of samba is 3.0.25b, 
> while the i386 version of samba is only 3.0.10.
> 
> 2)  On a related note, why does it appear that a recent security update 
> was not applied to the CentOS 4 i386 architecture version of samba?
> 
> If you look at the top two patches listed on the Samba homepage here:
> http://us3.samba.org/samba/history/security.html
> You will see that they should apply to all versions of samba from 3.0.0 
> to 3.0.26a.
> So that would include the i386 CentOS 4 version of samba because it's 
> 3.0.10.
> 
> I am on the CentOS Announcements mailing list, and I still have not seen 
> an announcement that this has been fixed in the i386 CentOS 4 version of 
> samba.  I have seen announcements for CentOS 3 i386, CentOS 3 x86_64, 
> and even CentOS 4 s390.  But not for CentOS 4 i386.  What gives?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Bit
I think this is part of 4.6, coming to mirrors near you maybe this week.

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