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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!