[Samba] Re: In place upgrade

[Rubin Bennett]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:42 +0100, Kristian Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kristian Davies
> <kristian.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excuse the basic question but how do I do an in place upgrade from
> > src? 3.2.2 to say 3.2.4.....
> 
> *bump*
> 
> Please feel free to berate me on no already knowing this.... and if I
> don't already know it, maybe I shouldn't be installing src.
> 
> The docs don't mention anything, I'm assuming this is because it
> expects you to already know how.
> 
> -Kristian
If you're on an RPM based system, then you just upgrade your rpms (rpm
-Uvh {packages}.

For a system installed without a package manager (i.e. make install),
then you make a copy of your passdb.tdb, secrets.tdb and smb.conf,
upgrade, and put those 3 files back in.
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