[Samba] Samba 3.0.26a Available for Download

[David Rankin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morgan [mailto:morgan at orst.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: David C. Rankin
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; David Rankin
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.26a Available for Download
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 
> > Ed Kasky wrote:
> >> At 05:24 AM Tuesday, 9/11/2007, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote -=>
> >>
> >>> Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis at
> >>>
> >>>         http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
> >>
> >> Not being as adept at building rpm's as I could be if I 
> had the time 
> >> to learn it, is there any supporting documentation anywhere that 
> >> describes how to go about converting from an rpm install 
> to installing from src?
> >>
> >> Or is it easier/preferred/better to stick with the rpm's and build 
> >> them from the src?
> >>
> >> I know there are opinions on both sides but I wouldn't 
> mind hearing a 
> >> few as I try and decide if I should continue with the rpm on a FC6 
> >> machine or convert to a src install....
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > 	Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!  
> Seriously, I prefer 
> > rpm's, but I have servers still running mandriva 2005le and 
> no one has 
> > built rpms for that distro for well over a year. So instead of 
> > worrying about installing some new OS, I simply started 
> building them 
> > from scratch/source. Simple process, you only need to 
> figure out what 
> > the ./configure options need to be once and then updates 
> are a breeze.
> >
> > THE BASICS
> >
> > (1) download the latest samba-rev#.tar.gz;
> > (2) unzip it with "tar -xzf samba-rev#.tar.gz"
> > (3) change into the new samba-rev# directory
> > (4) actually read the README file
> > (5) cd into the new samba-rev#/source directory
> > (6) run "sh autogen.sh"
> >
> > FIGURING OUT THE CONFIGURE OPTIONS
> >
> > 	While looking at the output of ./configure --help may 
> be daunting, 
> > unless you have very special needs, the only config options 
> you need 
> > are very straight forward. They are basically limited to:
> >
> > 	Where are your samba binaries/libs are stored and where do the 
> > documentation, config, and password files go?
> 
> I prefer to keep all source installed packages out of the 
> Distro-maintained directories (/usr).  Historically, this was 
> traditionally done on unix systems by using 
> --prefix=/usr/local.  I prefer to put Samba into 
> /private/samba, but that's really up to you.
> 
> If you are going to install from source, I recommended using 
> /usr/local as the prefix.
> 
>  	Andy

Andy,

	To some extent I agree. However, there are 2 areas where I disagree.
First, many of the rpm distros impliment sysconfig file checks that look for
files to be in certain places. When I'm adminning an older system, I don't
particularly want to redesign the whole sysconfig system to prevent the
system from loading the wrong config file because it is looking for smb.conf
in /etc or /etc/samba instead of /usr/local/etc/samba. The second are where
I disagree is if it is your system, you are doing the adminning, who cares
whether the file is in /usr or /usr/local/usr. In that case, there is no
plausable harm that can come from using your /usr directory for source
installs. This is especially true with a distro where updates are no longer
supported by RPM.  


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