[Samba] Upgrading samba from source over debian packages

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:00:17 -0500
Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> 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.
> 

Bob, if you run ./configure --help in the base of an unpacked Samba
tarball, you will get a list of options that can be passed to the
compile, amongst these are the places to put various parts of Samba. If
you do not set any of these, Samba will be installed
to /usr/local/samba and when I say Samba, I mean all of Samba, the
binaries and libraries etc, you get uptodate versions of ldb, tdb,
tevent etc. 

The problem comes if you are trying to upgrade from a
distro package, these scatter Samba in several places and you will need
to find a way to move thing like sam.ldb to the correct place.
The easiest way would be to set up another DC joined to the domain and
then demote and remove the original DC.

Rowland