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

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Dec 5 12:26:32 UTC 2007


Scott Silva wrote:
> 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.
> 
Correct ...

CentOS-4.6 will be released soon, then they will be in sync again.

There are different maintainers for different arches and different
approaches.

But I am the i386/x86_64 maintainer ... and 4.6 will be released as a
whole and not in pieces.  That is because in the past, certain security
upgrades caused bugs when built against a newer package set but released
on the older tree.  We can not afford for things not to work together so
will these two arches (which make up 90% of CentOS users) as upstream
did ... with all of the bugfixes, security updates, enhancements
together.  That is just how they are built and the only way everything
is known to coexist.

We just released 5.1 and we have to give our mirror infrastructure time
to peak and go back down before we can release 4.6, since we do not have
unlimited mirror resources like the upstream guys.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes




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