Benefits of having a samba-latest.tar.gz for Samba4

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Mon Jan 28 01:15:58 MST 2013


Hi Julien,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:56:48PM +0100, Julien Kerihuel wrote:
> In a day or so, the OpenChange team will release a new version of
> openchange. It actually works smoothly with samba-4.0.1 and we can't see
> any reason why it wouldn't work with samba-4.0.2 as well.
> 
> The problem is we can't postpone our release and samba-4.0.2 won't be
> around yet when it's done.
> 
> We would really appreciate users building openchange from sources to be
> able to grab latest samba4 tarball available unless specified otherwise.
> 
> There is a samba-latest.tar.gz that binds to Samba-3.6.10.
> 
> Would it be possible to have something similar for samba4 releases?

samba-latest.tar.gz should bind to the latest stable release, that is currently
samba-4.0.1. There was indeed a mistake, so the links pointed to the 4.0.0
release, but that has been fixed now. Thanks for the catch!

Cheers,
Karolin

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