Alex, I could not agree more with you. BTW, perhaps you already know, but just in case: If you want to see the patches applied to a package during its history, and you don't need to dig into the sources themselves, you can query the changelog for an rpm package without having to download sources: rpm -q --changelog package for example for my samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2 rpm -q --changelog samba * Wed May 11 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.2 - include the -bug157208 patch. to close bz#157208 CRM 511318 - smbfs dont respect uid and gid options when mounting * Fri Apr 29 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> - include the -smbspool pattch from RHEL-3, to close bz#155350 SAMBA client working, printer configuration not working - include the -winbindd_2k3sp1 patch to allow Samba to authenticate against a Windows 2003 SP1 machine. This closes bz#154558 Winbind refuses to authenticate against Windows 2003 SP1 * Wed Mar 30 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.1 - try the -gcc4 patch, to see if it solves problems with nmbd crashing. bz#150582 ? nmbd dies when windows client requests browse list * Tue Jan 04 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E - Upgrade to 3.0.10, to close bz#143983 This obsoletes the -CAN-2004-1154 patch. - Include the -64bit patch from Nalin. This closes bz#142873
On 9/20/06, Alex de Vaal <a.vaal@nh-hotels.com> wrote:> Hello Gianluca, > > The "rpm -q --changelog package" command was known to me, but the original > Samba packages doesn't contain a changelog.Strange if it comes from RH. Also the initial release for RH 4, samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9.i386.rpm, contained a changelog in it...> > As for the RHEL4 Samba packages; the changes are applied by RedHat > engineers, but if you are looking into the patches itself, they come mostly > from samba.org > How can otherwise statements of Jeremy Allison of samba.org be in patches of > RedHat... ;) and the only way to find out is to dig in the patches > themselves...yes, but often RH engineers are also active main developers for the corresponding opensource project and infact they have agreement so that they can dedicate part of their time to the OS project. Probably not for samba but this is true for many other ones. In other situations clearly they apply official mantainers patches, eventually dwelving in backporting them, if for some reason they don't want/feel to upgrade the whole package itself. Gianluca
Hello Gianluca, The "rpm -q --changelog package" command was known to me, but the original Samba packages doesn't contain a changelog. As for the RHEL4 Samba packages; the changes are applied by RedHat engineers, but if you are looking into the patches itself, they come mostly from samba.org How can otherwise statements of Jeremy Allison of samba.org be in patches of RedHat... ;) and the only way to find out is to dig in the patches themselves... Regards, Alex. -----Original Message----- From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com] Sent: Friday 15 September 2006 15:42 To: a.vaal@nh-hotels.com Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: re: Support of Samba on RHEL4? Alex, I could not agree more with you. BTW, perhaps you already know, but just in case: If you want to see the patches applied to a package during its history, and you don't need to dig into the sources themselves, you can query the changelog for an rpm package without having to download sources: rpm -q --changelog package for example for my samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2 rpm -q --changelog samba * Wed May 11 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.2 - include the -bug157208 patch. to close bz#157208 CRM 511318 - smbfs dont respect uid and gid options when mounting * Fri Apr 29 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> - include the -smbspool pattch from RHEL-3, to close bz#155350 SAMBA client working, printer configuration not working - include the -winbindd_2k3sp1 patch to allow Samba to authenticate against a Windows 2003 SP1 machine. This closes bz#154558 Winbind refuses to authenticate against Windows 2003 SP1 * Wed Mar 30 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.1 - try the -gcc4 patch, to see if it solves problems with nmbd crashing. bz#150582 ? nmbd dies when windows client requests browse list * Tue Jan 04 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E - Upgrade to 3.0.10, to close bz#143983 This obsoletes the -CAN-2004-1154 patch. - Include the -64bit patch from Nalin. This closes bz#142873