[Samba] RE: Support of Samba on RHEL4?

[Alex de Vaal]

Hello Gianluca,

The "rpm -q --changelog package" command was known to me, but the original
Samba packages doesn't contain a changelog.

As for the RHEL4 Samba packages; the changes are applied by RedHat
engineers, but if you are looking into the patches itself, they come mostly
from samba.org
How can otherwise statements of Jeremy Allison of samba.org be in patches of
RedHat... ;) and the only way to find out is to dig in the patches
themselves...

Regards,
Alex.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday 15 September 2006 15:42
To: a.vaal at nh-hotels.com
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: re: Support of Samba on RHEL4?

Alex,
I could not agree more with you.
BTW, perhaps you already know, but just in case:
If you want to see the patches applied to a package during its history, and
you don't need to dig into the sources themselves, you can query the
changelog for an rpm package without having to download
sources:

rpm -q --changelog package

for example  for my samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2
rpm -q --changelog samba
* Wed May 11 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.2

- include the -bug157208 patch. to close
  bz#157208 CRM 511318 - smbfs dont respect uid and gid options when
mounting

* Fri Apr 29 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com>

- include the -smbspool pattch from RHEL-3, to close
  bz#155350 SAMBA client working, printer configuration not working
- include the -winbindd_2k3sp1 patch to allow Samba to authenticate
  against a Windows 2003 SP1 machine.  This closes
  bz#154558 Winbind refuses to authenticate against Windows 2003 SP1

* Wed Mar 30 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E.1

- try the -gcc4 patch, to see if it solves problems with nmbd crashing.
  bz#150582 ? nmbd dies when windows client requests browse list

* Tue Jan 04 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com> 3.0.10-1.4E

- Upgrade to 3.0.10, to close bz#143983  This obsoletes
  the -CAN-2004-1154 patch.
- Include the -64bit patch from Nalin.  This closes bz#142873