[Samba] Upgrade question - please be gentle! - failed dependencies?

[Craig White]

This is an act of pure desperation and nothing that I could ever in good
conscience suggest to someone. Not charming doesn't begin to describe
the consequences that may occur.

Craig

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 03:36, rruegner wrote:
> Hi,
> i updated my systems with the killing method
> rpm --nodeps --force
> i know this is not charming but it worked with the suse packs since 
> samba 3.0 up to samba 3.04
> but i strongly recommend to test this first on a test system !!!!
> Best Regards
> 
> Hamish schrieb:
> > Thanks for you help, I tried to update with rpm -Uvh and it found a lot 
> > of failed dependencies: liblber.so.199, libldap.so.199, libpopt.so.199 
> > etc - did you have these same problems?
> > 
> > rruegner wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi, i have a big smb/ldap setup and running
> >> with 3.04 but with kernel 2.4.21 suse 9
> >> and i had no Problems with updating it ( all the way up from version 
> >> 3.0-3.04) it worked all like charme as before,
> >> but i recommend to use samba packs from ftp suse projects samba, or 
> >> self compiled....yesterday i looked there there where patched 3.04 
> >> packs against the swat sec bug ,but no 3.05
> >>
> >> I know problems with sernet suse samba packs after update relating to 
> >> cups
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Hamish schrieb:
> >>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> I am planning to upgrade our production samba server (3.0.3pre2-SuSE 
> >>> on SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.6.5-10) tonight to 3.0.5. Is there anything I 
> >>> should know about things breaking during this upgrade? I will just do 
> >>> it with `rpm -Uvh --repackage samba*` - I have tried this on a test 
> >>> server and it seems to work ok, but if anyone has some info that 
> >>> might be useful I would be grateful!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> H
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>