[Samba] Re: missing packaging/Fedora/makerpms.sh

[Mark Nienberg]

Ray Anderson wrote:
> 
> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>> I downloaded the tar.gz file for 3.0.27a and I noticed there is not a 
>> Fedora directory inside the packaging directory.  I'm fairly certain 
>> there used to be one in older versions.  I'm groping now to figure out 
>> how to build rpms for Fedora 4, which I know is a little old but I 
>> don't have resources to upgrade the OS now. Was it intentionally removed?
>>
>> Mark
>>
> 
> For my Fedora 3 and 4 machines out in the wild, I simply removed the 
> rpms altogether and installed from source.
> 
> It was a painless procedure, even including the vscan vfs objects.
> 
> Symlink the config files to the /usr/local/samba/lib directory and it 
> should work just fine.  Sure makes upgrading to later versions easier.  :)

If you set a few of the compile options correctly then you could get it 
to install into the same places as the rpm does so you wouldn't need 
symlinks.  Oh wait, that is what the makerpms.sh script was for! :)

Mark