[Samba] Building samba 4.17.4 on CentOS7

[Rowland Penny]

On 18/01/2023 16:02, Greg Dickie wrote:
> Ok now, but did 4.10.16? I was just trying to rebuild their source RPM.

OK, Samba first started using python 3 at version 4.10.0 , but you could 
build Samba with python 2 if you ran '.configure' and 'make' like this:

   'PYTHON=python2 ./configure'
   'PYTHON=python2 make'

Samba 4.11.0 did not come with runtime support for python 2, but you 
could still build it as above

Samba 4.11.0 required a minimum of python 3.4, which was raised to 3.5 
as Samba 4.12.0 and again to python 3.6 at 4.13.0

Python 2 was removed from samba at 4.14.0 and a minimum of python 3.6 
was then required.

That's the facts, now my opinion:

Centos is now dead, red-hat bought it and basically shut it down, so why 
continue to use it ?
Have you considered using Debian ? Right from the start of Samba 4 it 
has been easier to set up Samba on it. If you use Debian 11 and Samba 
from backports, you get (at the moment) the latest version of Samba 4.17.4

Rowland