[Samba] wiki entry regarding updating self compiled samba addc (4.11.x -> 4.15.0 in my case)

[Jürgen Echter]

Hi Andrew,

Am Mittwoch, September 29, 2021 10:36 CEST, schrieb Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
 On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 19:13 +0200, Jürgen Echter via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i upgraded from samba 4.11.x compiled with PYTHON=python2 ./configure
> to samba 4.15.0, i got some libraries left over which insisted on
> samba 4.11.x and made samba-tool crash.
>
> for example:
>
> libsmb_samba_internal.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> simple_dn.so
> simple_ldap_map.so
>
> I read
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#The_Update_Process
> mentioning special treatment for self compiled samba.
>
> Quote:
>
> If you update Samba by compiling from the sources, you should be
> aware that code can be removed for various reasons. If code is
> removed and you compile and install Samba over your existing Samba
> installation, this can lead to old libs being left on disk, this can
> lead to errors. For this reason, it is recommended that you replace
> the entire Samba installation if you compile Samba from sources. This
> should not affect Samba when updating by using distro packages.
>
> So i had a look at
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba_from_Source#Upgrading_a_Self-compiled_Samba_Installation
> and it only says i should use the same configure options, which is
> not possible in this case.
>
> So my question is what directorys are safe/needed to delete prior to
> "make install" the new version?

The things that need to be removed are those that contain .py* files,
executable binaries and .so files. Everything else can be left intact.

Andrew Bartlett
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thanks, i'll try that with my next upgrade practice.