[Samba] Compiling and upgrading

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 11:05 +0000, Jon Gerdes via samba wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 11:51 +0200, Nicolas Boissé via samba wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a samba AD server (CentOS 7) installed from compiled
> > sources.
> > 
> > What is the procedure for compiling and updating? Can I just
> > remove 
> > /usr/local/samba/bin, lib, libexec and sbin, then make && install ?
> > 
> > Or is it an insecure method and better not to update ?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> If you still have the source that you ran "make install" from then
> you
> should be able to run "make uninstall" to remove the old version
> completely.
> 
> See: https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/Makefile
> 
> So, download the new source, configure and make it.  Run the
> uninstall
> on the old version and then make install on the new one.
> 
> I notice that the Makefile goes on about something called waf so
> things
> have changed since I last compiled Samba!  So let's look in
> buildtools/
> ...  oh a README ... follow the link to code.google ... 404.
> 
> Sorry, I'm out!
> 
> Cheers
> Jon

Samba now uses WAF, not 'make, make install'

How the OP proceeds will depend on just how he is running Samba. For
instance, if he is running Samba as a DC, he will probably be better
off creating a new DC and joining this to the domain. 

Rowland