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

Hamish captainmish at gmx.net
Thu Jul 29 16:34:00 GMT 2004


Thanks Craig,
Will it work if I remove samba 3.0.3 completely (rpm -e) and then 
install 3.0.5?

Craig White wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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:
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>>>>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:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>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
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