[Samba] 4.1.11/DebianWheezyBackports vs. 4.1.12/Sernet

Darik Horn dajhorn at vanadac.com
Wed Oct 22 11:59:11 MDT 2014


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Harry Jede <walk2sun at arcor.de> wrote:
>
> The packages from sernet are surly newer, but they have a big show
> stopper. These packages do not flag themselve as "samba" or "smbclient"
> or any other package name used by Debian.
> So what happens, if one ever installed a Debian package which depends on
> samba or smbclient? The Debian packages get installed and one ends up
> with two packages in different versions.

Try using the `equivs` utility to create dummy "samba" and "smbclient"
packages for Sernet installations.

-- 
Darik Horn <dajhorn at vanadac.com>


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