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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