[Samba] Programmatically Retrieve Current Stable Version

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Hai, 

I use, this to get the latest versions from the samba site.
wget -q https://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/ -O - | awk -F"href=\"" '{ print $2 }'| cut -d"\"" -f1 | egrep -v "/|asc|FTP|latest|=|COPY|READ|DOWNLOAD" | sort|uniq | tail -n1

Results in : 
samba-4.8.3.tar.gz

Set -n1 to -n2 to see 4.7 also or -n3 to see 4.6.x


I also suggest you look also at. 
https://salsa.debian.org/samba-team/samba/blob/master/debian/README.source.md 
This one is updated to 4.8. Debian Dev Mathieu did some very good work here for the git instructions. 

If you look at : 
https://packages.debian.org/sid/samba  you wil see 4.8.2. 

If you look at the git tree, you will that 4.8.3 is already imported in the debian git tree. 
Its just not in experimental, my debian 4.8.3 package are based on the debian git 4.8.3. 


Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Andrew Bartlett via samba
> Verzonden: maandag 13 augustus 2018 2:40
> Aan: John Clendenen; samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Programmatically Retrieve Current 
> Stable Version
> 
> On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 20:58 -0400, John Clendenen via samba wrote:
> > I am writing an update script for Samba (compiled from 
> source) and I am
> > wondering how best to programmatically get the latest 
> release version
> > number.
> > 
> > I know that 
> https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/samba-latest.tar.gz exists,
> > but I would like to get the version number to compare to 
> smbd -V, so that
> > it can quietly ignore if Samba is already up to date.
> > 
> > My currently solution is to incrementally prod at
> > 
> https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.X.X.tar.gz
> , but that’s
> > obviously not ideal.
> > 
> > Please let me know if there is a better, accepted way to about this.
> > 
> > Thank you for all your hard work. I am looking forward to 
> the 4.9 release.
> 
> Debian has a watch file for this purpose:
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/samba/2:4.8.2+dfsg-2/debian/watch/
> 
> It is much the same as what you do however.
> 
> There are also tags in the samba git repo, eg samba-4.8.1
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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