(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.
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at 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..:-)
Thanks for doing this! On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at 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
Christian PERRIER
2010-May-08 08:33 UTC
[Samba] [Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny
> 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.As one of my co-maintainers kindly pointed: - the mail was *not* GPG signed - it indeed didn't contain any checksum of the proposed deb packages so an attacked could have altered them. Below are the checksums of all .deb files I uploaded on our backports repository....careful users might want to run "md5sum" on the .deb files they get before installing them. 5f703c002bfa03f0edf6d86eb9c11945 libpam-smbpass_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 3ca956d42801c3c42269d8bd27452f9d libpam-smbpass_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb 72eb8c211f2fefacdbc68ab9d18ea6e5 libsmbclient_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 41a172d8c188f652c7e2a2415ae430b7 libsmbclient_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb ad7703c5a0a6c6f362516cd8b64f3482 libsmbclient-dev_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb b94695bb082e3188162260ece1248782 libsmbclient-dev_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb e1f75bf97a200e6ed693c6d9575a00ad libwbclient0_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb c9aea3a7a6887a791eb0cb2f9d090806 libwbclient0_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb f69da0aacebd1ca5d15439ea7250220f samba_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 65a73ce754a19d801733f2a21066858e samba_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb ee84c87472fa9493fc306c8e6026ea31 samba-common_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_all.deb 0d51b93c2e453a93af564735ead75487 samba-common-bin_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 30fb63db90531c1c9d3cbc0566c37a72 samba-common-bin_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb af0d6c65390074f7fe80ff87448d4d7b samba-dbg_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 32d7c4570c91cf7ac94d62b8e2cc0a57 samba-dbg_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb 1518f9e5df82dea50d32b4f7083e3ddd samba-doc_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_all.deb 1dea16da55452d9534d2c37d39943822 samba-doc-pdf_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_all.deb 115dfbe885b72845a5c9b7beb7b0fe3f samba-tools_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 0733a1032adb3f3b69dba3a920fb57d3 samba-tools_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb 8fd6f4080b6ae33383c77d86ac6954fd smbclient_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb 3f973e9cce2b95222c0bdacd8f35353d smbclient_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb 75a0c3ecf5afc96214cd1ac36418dde8 swat_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb ace067411003faa618fe77a90a5f3301 swat_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb b74407b39a81a8fa8b62c6a16fe43a1c winbind_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_amd64.deb d54f1b1959bb03b2045f4815f36c146e winbind_3.5.2~dfsg-2~unoff50+1_i386.deb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100508/60db2d2c/attachment.pgp>
Christian PERRIER
2010-May-12 05:12 UTC
[Samba] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny (some issues left)
> 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 still a few issues that are|were hitting these backproted packages: - up to yesterday, the size of the arch:all packages (samba-common, samba-doc, samba-doc-pdf) was not fittingn the size mentioned in the Packages file, leading to an APT warning. This was indirectly caused by the manual upload of binary packages for the amd64 platform and has been fixed - the winbind package fails to install properly because of the use of an unknown command in its postinst script. This can be fixed with the following hack (as root): ln -s /bin/true /usr/local/bin/pam-auth-update (please remember removing that link once that packages are installed) An alternate way to avoid this is by remmoving the lines calling pam-auth-update in /var/lib/dpkg/info/winbind.{postrm,postinst} I'm preparing updated packages to fix this. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100512/13ecfa35/attachment.pgp>