[Samba] Upgrading samba from source over debian packages

Bob of Donelson Trophy
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:08:06 -0000

On 2016-09-28 07:00, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba wrote:

> On 2016-09-28 06:41, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:29:00 -0500
>> Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Bob, if you removing Samba to compile your own version, then it doesn't
> matter that winbind is also removed, compiling Samba also provides
> winbind.
>
> Rowland
>
> Thanks. I was just accelerated my searching to find the "that"
answer.
>
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> Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy

Uh-h-h big fingers two different thoughts . . . actually should have
said "Thanks, _you have just_ accelerated my searching . . ."