the true way to make a rpm package for samba's latest version

Alexander Bokovoy ab at samba.org
Fri Aug 18 08:05:15 UTC 2017


On pe, 18 elo 2017, Nico Kadel-Garcia via samba-technical wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Li, Dan via samba-technical
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > Hi, all
> >
> > I want to make new rpm of samba's latest version in the platform(CentOS).
> > I find the file makerpms.sh.tmpl and samba.spec.tmpl under the folder "packaging/RHEL",
> > But it doesn't works well now. (for example, some parameter of configure doesn't work anymore.)
> > Is it correct to use new samba.spec under the following url or should I create a new one by myself?
> > https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!samba.git
> >
> > Regards,
> > Li Dan
> 
> The latest versions of Samba do not compile well with older versoins
> of gnutls I've tried to create CentOS compatible RPM's for leading
> edge Samba releases, and had to throw in the towel some time ago. If
> you want to play with my existing work, you're welcome to checkout
> https://github.com/nkadel/, but I warn you that Samba 4.6 or later
> presents real dependency issues.
RHEL 7.4 contains samba 4.6.2. CentOS did import it already:
https://git.centos.org/commit/rpms!samba.git/bec1a9f92d0e0b6463f5d10cb6328712c08f0594
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/ Alexander Bokovoy



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