samba - Sep 2016 - Upgrading samba from source over debian packages

Hello Marc,

Thanks for the fast answer!!!

Don't forget to uninstall the packages before running 'make
install'.
> Otherwise you risk that a Debian update overrides your setup or getting
> dependency problems.

Maybe, it would be nice to put on the wiki that step regarding uninstall
the old packages version. I believe that a good portion of users unaware
that step. :)


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>
wrote:
> Hello Elias,
>
> Am 27.09.2016 um 18:16 schrieb Elias Pereira via samba:
> > We have samba 4.1.17 installed via debian package and would like to
> install
> > the latest version 4.5 from source.
> >
> >  It's possible to perform this upgrade over the packages? If so,
what the
> > paths used in the installation via debian packages?
>
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba_from_Source#
> Viewing_Built_Options_of_an_Existing_Installation
>
> Pass the paths as options to the 'configure' script. See --help.
>
> Don't forget to uninstall the packages before running 'make
install'.
> Otherwise you risk that a Debian update overrides your setup or getting
> dependency problems.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>


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Elias Pereira

Hi,

Am 27.09.2016 um 21:14 schrieb Elias Pereira via samba:
> Maybe, it would be nice to put on the wiki that step regarding uninstall
> the old packages version. I believe that a good portion of users unaware
> that step. :)
I only can add a general and installation, because distros have
different package managers and you can run into dependencies problems.
For example, when you uninstall Samba, cifs-utils is also automatically
removed - even if you don't want to compile this yourself.

I will see if I find a place where this general information fits tonight.

Regards,
Marc

On 2016-09-28 01:04, Marc Muehlfeld via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 27.09.2016 um 21:14 schrieb Elias Pereira via samba: 
> 
>> Maybe, it would be nice to put on the wiki that step regarding
uninstall
>> the old packages version. I believe that a good portion of users
unaware
>> that step. :)
> 
> I only can add a general and installation, because distros have
> different package managers and you can run into dependencies problems.
> For example, when you uninstall Samba, cifs-utils is also automatically
> removed - even if you don't want to compile this yourself.
> 
> I will see if I find a place where this general information fits tonight.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
Out of curiosity I ran "apt remove samba" on Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS and
removal adds "winbind" packages "will be REMOVED" even
though I don't
want to remove winbind. So, " . . . because distros have different
package managers and you can run into dependencies problems." yes, I
understand you reluctance to adding "uninstall" instructions in the
wiki. IMHO, this is actually a distro related issue. 

Marc, you probably already know this but, I just thought everyone should
be aware. I have also seen different types of distro related issues,
like this, in CentOS and Fedora experiments where package manager is
going to un-install and/or install some package due to dependency
requirements.

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