[Samba] Upgrading samba from source over debian packages

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:29:00 -0500
Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 2016-09-28 01:04, Marc Muehlfeld via samba wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am 27.09.2016 um 21:14 schrieb Elias Pereira via samba: 
> > 
> >> Maybe, it would be nice to put on the wiki that step regarding
> >> uninstall the old packages version. I believe that a good portion
> >> of users unaware that step. :)
> > 
> > I only can add a general and installation, because distros have
> > different package managers and you can run into dependencies
> > problems. For example, when you uninstall Samba, cifs-utils is also
> > automatically removed - even if you don't want to compile this
> > yourself.
> > 
> > I will see if I find a place where this general information fits
> > tonight.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Marc
> 
> Out of curiosity I ran "apt remove samba" on Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS and
> removal adds "winbind" packages "will be REMOVED" even though I don't
> want to remove winbind. So, " . . . because distros have different
> package managers and you can run into dependencies problems." yes, I
> understand you reluctance to adding "uninstall" instructions in the
> wiki. IMHO, this is actually a distro related issue. 
> 
> Marc, you probably already know this but, I just thought everyone
> should be aware. I have also seen different types of distro related
> issues, like this, in CentOS and Fedora experiments where package
> manager is going to un-install and/or install some package due to
> dependency requirements.
> 

Bob, if you removing Samba to compile your own version, then it doesn't
matter that winbind is also removed, compiling Samba also provides
winbind.

Rowland