[Samba] oplocks and samba 2.2.7

Keith G. Murphy keithmur at mindspring.com
Fri Dec 13 22:22:01 GMT 2002


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:38, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> 
>>Oddly enough, I got oplock problems when I upgraded from 2.2.3a-6 to 
>>2.2.3a-12, whereupon I filed a bug and downgraded.
>>
>>The Debian maintainer assured me nothing had been done but security 
>>backports; so I upgraded again and crossed my fingers.  I just noticed I 
>>got some oplock errors day before yesterday, so time to downgrade again 
>>and watch.
> 
> 
> I can't not understand with debian cannot update packeges that are in
> the stable version ... but that's a debian problem not samba related ...
> 
Well, I think I understand and approve of the reasons: it's so packages 
can get tested properly before you run them on your 'stable' server.

And they backport security fixes, so you get the best of both worlds, 
generally.

If you want latest features, run 'testing' or 'unstable'.






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