Package distribution hassles - a proposal.

[Max TenEyck Woodbury]

John H Terpstra wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
> 
>> John H Terpstra wrote:
> 
>> I just spent an hour searching the Red Hat FTP site for samba*.rpms.
>> There were over a 100. 21 different .src.rpms for samba and 4 for smbfs.
>> Obviously, it makes no sense to build for anything older than 6.2, but
>> should I document the older stuff? I'm inclined to limit the initial effort
>> to stuff that's less than 2 years old. If someone else wanted to do the
>> 'historic' stuff for the fun of it, the more power to 'em!
> 
>>
>> I'll do a web search for other samba distributions later tonight, but
>> it would help if you supplied a list to make sure I don't miss anything
>> obvious.
> 
> We need support for:
> 
> ...

Thanks for the list. I haven't finished yet, but partial results follow:

I took you list and sorted it into a priority order and started hunting
for source specifications. I also started a search for other distributions.
It seems like everybody and his brother have a distribution. I've listed
a few misc. ones at the end. I'll fill in more later.

Red Hat:             6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2                **********
 ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/<var>/en/os/<arch=i386>/SRPMS
  samba-1.9.16p11-3rh.src.rpm
  samba-1.9.17p4-3.src.rpm
  samba-1.9.18p5-1.src.rpm
  samba-1.9.18p10-3.src.rpm
  samba-2.0.3-8.src.rpm
  samba-2.0.5a-0.4.2.src.rpm
  samba-2.0.5a-12.src.rpm                     (6.1)
  samba-2.0.6-9.src.rpm               2230 Kb (6.2)
  samba-2.0.7-4.src.rpm                       (6.1 update)
  samba-2.0.7-21sslj1.src.rpm         3732 Kb (7.0 ja)
  samba-2.0.7-21ssl.src.rpm           4148 Kb (7.0)
  samba-2.0.7-36.src.rpm              4356 Kb (7.1 i386)
  samba-2.0.8-1.7.1.src.rpm           4343 Kb (7.1 alpha, ia64)
  samba-2.0.10-0.521.src.rpm
  samba-2.0.10-0.62.src.rpm           3388 Kb
  samba-2.0.10-0.7.src.rpm            3388 Kb (7.0 update)
  samba-2.0.10-2.src.rpm              4613 Kb (7.1 kr, update)
  samba-2.2.1a-4.src.rpm              5811 Kb (7.2)
  samba-2.2.1a-5.src.rpm              5813 Kb (7.2 ia64, s390)
  samba-2.2.3a-1.src.rpm              5387 Kb (RawHide)
  samba-2.2.3a-2.src.rpm              5387 Kb (RawHide s390x)
Mandrake:            7.x, 8.0, 8.1                          ******
 ftp.linux-mandrake.com/pub is empty...
 jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/<ver>/SRPMS/
 (nearest to me. YMMV)
Caldera OL Server:   2.3, 3.1, 3.1.1                        *****
 ftp.caldera.com/pub/OpenLinux<ver>/Server/SRPMS/
TurboLinux:          4.0, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0                     ****
 ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/product/<arch>/server/<V>/<ver>/source/SRPMS/
Caldera OpenServer   5.0.5, 5.0.6                           ****
Sun Solaris Sparc    6, 7, 8, 9                             ****
HPUX:                10.20, 11.00, current                  ****
SuSE:                6.x, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3                     ***
 ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/<arch>/<ver>/suse/n1,n2
Sun Solaris Intel    7, 8                                   ***
Tru64:               4.0B, 4.0D, 5.0, 5.1                   ***
Caldera Open UNIX:   8.0                                    **
AIX:                current and two prior                   **
Conectiva Linux: last 2 or 3 releases                       *
Caldera OL Workstation: 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.1.1                *
e-Smith:            Current and immediate previous only     *

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