[Samba] Moving from compiled to packages

[Jason Waters]

So I can just copy the data into the new directory the package creates?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
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> Am 29.06.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Jason Waters:
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>> I understand about using the newer binaries, but what I really want to
>> "save" is the active directory.  Sorry I should have been clear.  I do
>> not want to have to rejoin/recreate everything.  Thanks.
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> userdata are *not* part of "make install", independent if the application
> comes froma package or is self contained, they are typically below /var/lib
> for any software
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>  On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
>> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
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>>     Am 29.06.2015 um 15:06 schrieb Jason Waters:
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>>         I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 for awhile and built samba from
>>         source.  I
>>         have two servers, both on 12.04.  Samba bulid 4.1.11.  I would
>>         like to
>>         upgrade the servers to 14.04 and start using the actual pacakges
>>         from
>>         ubuntu.  How do I get from compiled binarys to using the ubuntu
>>         pacakge?
>>         Thanks for any help
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>>     by delete all files spewed with "make install" into the system and
>>     install the packages, you should have used a build-prefix to isolate
>>     it from the rest of the OS or just built your own package
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>>     maybe "make uninstall" works, in doubt compile and do "make install"
>>     again to have all the files needed for "make uninstall"
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