[Samba] Upgrading samba from source over debian packages

[Bob of Donelson Trophy]

On 2016-09-28 07:00, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba wrote:

> On 2016-09-28 06:41, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Thanks. I was just accelerated my searching to find the "that" answer.
> 
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> Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy

Uh-h-h big fingers two different thoughts . . . actually should have
said "Thanks, _you have just_ accelerated my searching . . ."

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