[Samba] using git to stay current

David Bear dwbear75 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 09:20:09 MDT 2014


yes -- I was thinking by doing a git clone v4-1-stable I would always get
the latest stable which would include security updates.


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:38 AM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 19:58 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > On 24/06/14 19:50, David Bear wrote:
> > > I want (or think I do) to use git to be able to grab the latest stable
> > > release of samba.
> >
> > I think that if you want to use the latest stable release, then do just
> > that, use the latest tarball, which at the moment is this:
> > http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.1.9.tar.gz
> >
> > Using git seems like a good idea, but git could be broken, not saying it
> > is, but it could be, git by its very nature is likely to be unstable.
> >
> > Rowland
> >
>
> Hi
> No, no. git has been around for years. It's very stable. I think the OP
> means the latest _stable_ git checkout which can be had by pointing at:
>   remotes/origin/v4-1-stable
>
> If you're brave or have a test setup you could also try the bleeding
> egde at master.
> HTH
> Steve
>
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