[PATCH] Make upgrade procedure more explicit.

Michael Wood esiotrot at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 16:05:05 MDT 2010


Add in a compile step.
Change the tar command to include the recommended dirs.
---
 upgrading-samba4.txt |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/upgrading-samba4.txt b/upgrading-samba4.txt
index 85e4699..9dc4636 100644
--- a/upgrading-samba4.txt
+++ b/upgrading-samba4.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 Upgrading from an older samba4 installation.
 
+* Compile the new version of samba4 by following the HOWTO, but do
+  not install it yet, and do not run provision.
 * Stop any samba process
 * Backup your samba4 provision:
-  go in the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
-  do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private (it's also recommended to save the etc/smb.conf and var/sysvol dir aswell)
-* Go in the source4 dir
+  go into the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
+  do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private etc var sysvol
+* Go into the source4 dir
 * run ./scripting/bin/upgradeprovision -s <path to smb.conf in samba4 install>
 * do make install
 
-- 
1.7.0



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