[PATCH] s4: update What's new and explain how to upgrade a samba4 provision
Matthieu Patou
mat at matws.net
Wed Nov 25 07:10:52 MST 2009
---
WHATSNEW4.txt | 5 ++++-
upgrading-samba4.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 upgrading-samba4.txt
diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt
index 1cd66d5..35ab327 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW4.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ directories.
CHANGES SINCE alpha8
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 alpha8 was released in June 2009, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
(in no particular order):
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
+ Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha10.
+
RUNNING Samba4
==============
diff --git a/upgrading-samba4.txt b/upgrading-samba4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbd47f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upgrading-samba4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Upgrading from an older samba4 installation.
+
+For users of samba4 alpha 8 and after
+=====================================
+
+* Stop any samba process
+* Backup your samba4 provision:
+ go in the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
+ do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private (it's also recommended to save the etc/smb.conf and var/sysvol dir aswell)
+* Go in the source4 dir
+* run ./python/scripting/upgradeprovision
+* do make install
+
+For users of samba4 alpha 8 and after
+=====================================
+
+* Stop any samba/smbd process
+* Backup your samba4 provision:
+ go in the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
+ do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private (it's also recommended to save the etc/smb.conf and var/sysvol dir aswell)
+* Go in the source4 dir
+* run ./python/scripting/upgradeprovision --full
+* do make install
+
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