Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny
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From: Christian PERRIER on 5 May 2010 17:10 Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle(a)debian.org): > (please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC > me to answers, I read the 3 of them...) And one of them was invalid (sigh) as lists.debian.org is not yet hosting Samba mailing lists..:-) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
From: Rippl, Steve on 5 May 2010 17:20
Thanks for doing this! On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle(a)debian.org>wrote: > (please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC > me to answers, I read the 3 of them...) > > Some users (including me with my professionnal hat) want to use 3.5 > versions of samba on production servers running Debian. Of course, > most of the time, these production servers are running Debian lenny > (the stable version of the distribution). > > Debian lenny ships with samba 3.2.5, so these users need a > "backported" package....or to compile packages themselves. > > We already had backports of samba 3.4.7, which is the version > currently shipped in Debian "testing" (aka "the next Debian > version"). These are available through the http://backports.org > service, also known as the "nearly completely official backport > service of the Debian project". > > The policy of backports.org does not allow us to provide 3.5 packages > there, because these versions are not in Debian testing. > > So, as a service to our users, I prepared some packages which are now > available from http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org, also known as "the > not so official but still quite actively supported backport service of the > samba packaging team of the Debian project" (which makes a fairly long > name...). > > These packages are functionally identical to 3.5.2 package we provide > in Debian experimental....but are usable on Debian "lenny" systems. > > There are however a few limitations: > - they're provided only for i386 and amd64 architectures > - they require the backported cifs-utils, ctdb and libtalloc2 packages > from backprots.org (cifs-utils is only required if you previously > had the "smbfs" package that provide (u)mount.cifs > > To use these packages, you need to add the following to > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free > deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports-latest/ > > Then packages must be installed with: > > apt-get install -t lenny-backports-latest samba <winbind> .... > > Please note that these packages are not (yet) digitally signed, so > apt-get might complain and ask for confirmation. I should improve this > in the future. This is why this mail is currently GPG-signed with the > key I'm using for Debian packaging. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- Steve Rippl Technology Director Woodland Public Schools 360 225 9451 x326 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba |