[Samba] Samba rpms now available from CentOS Storage SIG

[Anoop C S]

On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 04:09 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia via samba wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:10 AM Anoop C S via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 07:47 +0100, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> > > On 17/08/2020 07:35, Anoop C S via samba wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > This is to announce the availability of Samba(and CTDB) rpms
> > > > from
> > > > Storage SIG[1] on CentOS 7 and 8. Visit Samba's CentOS wiki
> > > > page[2]
> > > > for
> > > > more details on installation steps.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage
> > > > [2] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Samba
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Anoop C S.
> > > 
> > > Hi Anoop, Are these packages capable of provisioning an AD domain
> > > with
> > > Heimdal ?
> > 
> > Nope, these are built with system MIT kerberos requirement and does
> > not
> > contain bits and pieces to setup Samba as an AD domain controller.
> > 
> > For better clarity I will update wiki page to contain this
> > information.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Anoop C S.
> 
> Then what, precisely, is the point of these non-RHEL supported
> updates, rather than using the versions built into the base RHEL and
> CentOS?

quoting from the other reply on @centos mailing list:

"Unlike Samba from default CentOS repository, which stays at a
particular version for a while, Storage SIG Samba is planned to have
latest possible stable versions packaged and shipped as and when they
are released upstream. Additionally it is aimed at maintaining
GlusterFS integration by shipping samba-vfs-glusterfs package with
specific VFS module for accessing GlusterFS volumes."