[olug] samba upgrade

[roger schmeits]

What is the standard for compile options???
Are the defaults good enough for most people?

Thanks for the response.

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:46, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
> Save your /etc/smb.conf config file.
> Remove ALL of the RPM's
> The source tar file has everything you need so compile and install it. 
> By default it goes to /usr/local/samba.  The new location for the config
> file will be /usr/local/samba/lib.  You should be able to drop your old
> config file in that location.
> 
> Upgrading to a new tar distribution later is easy.  Just make a backup
> of the /usr/local/samba directory.  Delete the directory and compile the
> new one.
> 
> Quinn
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:39, roger schmeits wrote:
> > 
> > With the latest release of samba would like to move from version 2.21a-4
> > to 2.2.6. How does one move from a rpm based samba to tar.gz? In other
> > words how do I upgrade from samba-2.2.1a-4.rpm to samba-2.2.6.tar.gz. 
> > 
> > Do I remove samba : rpm -e samba?
> > 
> > And what do I do with the other samba rpm packages:
> > samba-client-2.2.1a-4 & samba-common-2.2.1a-4? Are they included with
> > the tar package?
> > 
> > Can I assume I remove the rpm packages (all of them) and compile from
> > source? And how do I install a new version of samba when the next
> > release comes out?? with a source package you can't do a rpm -e.
> > 
> > sorry for all the questions just trying to get a handle on it.
> > 
> > 
> > Using RH7.2. Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > Roger
> > 
> > 
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