samba - Jul 2022 - Compiling and upgrading

Hi,

I have a samba AD server (CentOS 7) installed from compiled sources.

What is the procedure for compiling and updating? Can I just remove 
/usr/local/samba/bin, lib, libexec and sbin, then make && install ?

Or is it an insecure method and better not to update ?

Thanks!

On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 11:51 +0200, Nicolas Boiss? via samba
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a samba AD server (CentOS 7) installed from compiled sources.
'samba AD server' covers multiple types, a DC, an RODC and a Unix
domain member, so just how are you running Samba ?

Rowland

On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 11:51 +0200, Nicolas Boiss? via samba
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a samba AD server (CentOS 7) installed from compiled sources.
> 
> What is the procedure for compiling and updating? Can I just remove 
> /usr/local/samba/bin, lib, libexec and sbin, then make && install ?
> 
> Or is it an insecure method and better not to update ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
If you still have the source that you ran "make install" from then you
should be able to run "make uninstall" to remove the old version
completely.

See: https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/Makefile

So, download the new source, configure and make it.  Run the uninstall
on the old version and then make install on the new one.

I notice that the Makefile goes on about something called waf so things
have changed since I last compiled Samba!  So let's look in buildtools/
...  oh a README ... follow the link to code.google ... 404.

Sorry, I'm out!

Cheers
Jon