[Samba] Re: New Debian Packages?

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH]

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Martin Thomas wrote:
>>> You can try this:
>>> add the line
>>> deb ftp://de.samba.org/samba.org/Binary_Packages/Debian/ stable
>>> main to your /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get update, apt-get
>>> dist-upgrade. This should update Samba to 2.2.7a.
> tried it a few minutes ago. apt-get update shows:
> ...
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release
> Hit ftp://de.samba.org stable/main Packages
> Get:2 ftp://de.samba.org stable/main Release
> Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
> Ign ftp://de.samba.org stable/main Release
> ...
> I don't know much about Debian but I got the same messages right
> before updating 2.2.3 from the "standard" Debian stable to Version
> 2.2.7a published by the Samba-team on their mirrors. I don't know why
> the output shows "Get 2" and "Ign" for de.samba.org but it did work.
> I'm using the german mirror. Perhaps you can try another one.
The problem here is that the "Release" file is missing on the server.
And the effect is that the apt utility can't check to which release the
packages are belonging. The "Release" file has the following format
(copied from [1]):
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Suite: stable
Version: 3.0r1a
Codename: woody
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:45:37 UTC
Architectures: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc
Components: main contrib non-free
Description: Debian 3.0r1a Released 16th December 2002
MD5Sum:
 678eab2d1d603992726f697765dadf33             3208
main/disks-alpha/current/md5sum.txt
 678eab2d1d603992726f697765dadf33             3208
main/disks-alpha/3.0.23-2002-05-21/md5sum.txt
<!--StartFragment-->SHA1:
 c6127040c645338c14d6983a568ad6c608417374             3208
main/disks-alpha/current/md5sum.txt
 c6127040c645338c14d6983a568ad6c608417374             3208
main/disks-alpha/3.0.23-2002-05-21/md5sum.txt
 7652d2dab0d0fa416635e03d7b065d4848585c86          6244592
main/binary-alpha/Packages
 77da3f08bd05101746e79d03ee95b5c6f35abb28          1700954
main/binary-alpha/Packages.gz

Would it be possible that any of the samba-mirror maintainers generates
a file like this?


[1] ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/Release/


Cheers
Nicki

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