[CentOS] Samba 4.1.6

Fri Oct 17 20:13:36 UTC 2014
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Fri, October 17, 2014 2:54 pm, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 03:51:39PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 10/17/2014 3:32 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> >On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 01:22:46PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> >>On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:12:30 -0400
>> >>Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>That looked great until I got signed in and realized that they do not
>> >>>yet have CentOS 7 packages...
>> >>I don't need this so I didn't register and so on, but I'm wondering
>> >>if they offer a source rpm package on that site that you might be
>> >>able to compile yourself?
>> >They do.
>> >
>> >https://download.sernet.de/packages/samba/4.1/rhel/6/src/sernet-samba-4.1.12-9.src.rpm
>> >
>> >(Link of course requires a vaild account).
>> >
>> >I will note that the Sernet folks have indicated they plan to release
>> >EL7 packages, but that was several months back and nothing is available
>> >yet.
>> >
>> >In a pinch, you can often recompile packages from newer versions of
>> >Fedora and in some cases they'll even "just work" without recompile
>> >(I've installed the stock Samba RPM's from Fedora 20 into RHEL7 with
>> >zero issues).
>>
>> I'll give the source rpm a try and see what happens.
>>
>> Can this package coesist with the current Samba package, or do I
>> need to remove the CentOS Samba package first?
>
> I'm not 100% certain, but would suggest you remove (and maybe exclude)
> the official RPM's from your system.
>

You can use yum-priorities...

And after starting doing that you should realize: there goes your
"Enterprise" system. You are more or less on "bleeding edge" now. So be
prepared for some bleeding...

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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