[Samba] using git to stay current

[Rowland Penny]

On 24/06/14 20:21, David Bear wrote:
> Thanks Rowland. I'm not sure what the best practice is for managing a 
> latest samba 4.x installation. When there is a security update, I 
> assume then that stable becomes samba-4.1.10.tar.gz ?
There is a new release approx every six weeks, you will find the release 
schedule here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Release_Planning

And yes the next release of the 4.1.x range will be 4.1.10 ;-)

Rowland
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Rowland Penny 
> <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 24/06/14 19:50, David Bear wrote:
>
>         I want (or think I do) to use git to be able to grab the
>         latest stable
>         release of samba.
>
>
>     I think that if you want to use the latest stable release, then do
>     just that, use the latest tarball, which at the moment is this:
>     http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.1.9.tar.gz
>
>     Using git seems like a good idea, but git could be broken, not
>     saying it is, but it could be, git by its very nature is likely to
>     be unstable.
>
>     Rowland
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