[Samba] Repos Broken

[Peter Milesson]

On 15.07.2024 21:22, Eduardo Miranda via samba wrote:
> Hello
>
> The repos of the backports branch for version 4.20 of Samba are giving 
> me the following error:
>
> apt-get install -t bookworm-backports samba samba-ad-dc krb5-user 
> krb5-config samba-a
> d-provision samba-dsdb-modules samba-vfs-modules winbind 
> libnss-winbind smbclient tdb-tools
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  samba : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.20.2+dfsg-5~bpo12+1) but 
> 2:4.20.2+dfsg-7 is to be installed
>          Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.20.2+dfsg-5~bpo12+1) but it 
> is not going to be installed
>          Breaks: samba-ad-provision (< 2:4.20.2+dfsg) but 
> 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 is to be installed
>          Recommends: attr but it is not going to be installed
>  samba-ad-dc : Breaks: samba-ad-provision (< 2:4.20.2+dfsg) but 
> 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 is to be installed
>  smbclient : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.20.2+dfsg-5~bpo12+1) but 
> 2:4.20.2+dfsg-7 is to be installed
>  winbind : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.20.2+dfsg-5~bpo12+1) but 
> 2:4.20.2+dfsg-7 is to be installed
>            Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.20.2+dfsg-5~bpo12+1) but 
> it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
>
> I have used it recently and it had not caused any problems, but today 
> I have not been able to
>
> Best regards
>
> Eduardo
>
>
>
Hi Eduardo,

It happened to me also yesterday.

I wanted to update samba backports from 4.20.2-dfsg-2 to 4.20.2-dfsg-5, 
and everything ended up in a mess. When I couldn't get anywhere, I 
waited until this morning, cleaned the apt cache, and made a new 
installation, and got 4.20.2-dfsg-6 instead. I had to rejoin the member 
server to the domain, so do backup smb.conf and nsswitch.conf, in case 
things go wrong.

HTH,

Peter