Samba 3.6 vs 4.0, and packaging.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 12:56 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> 
> On 24 June 2013 12:22, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>         No, while the file server code in Samba 4.0 is based on the
>         Samba 3.6
>         code, it isn't the same thing, it is the current supported
>         evolution of
>         that code.  Samba 4.1 likewise continues to evolve that code.
>         
>         
>         
>  
> Thanks for clarifying that, but I take it that Samba 4.0 can be used
> much the same as Samba 3.6

It can be.

>         Samba releases are already supported for 27 months, I don't
>         see any need
>         to extend that.
>         
>         Packaging Samba is not our responsibility, but members of the
>         team work
>         with and for a number of vendors, and the situation is
>         improving -
>         Debian will shortly have experimental (and then unstable)
>         packages for
>         Samba 4.0, which someone will presumably also backport.
>          SerNet provides
>         packages in exchange for a registration, and Fedora included
>         Samba 4.0
>         (but not DC) packages ever since Samba 4.0 was released.
>         
> 
> 
> I understood that the packages come from the Distro suppliers, but at
> the moment none of them seem to work the same as if you compile S4
> yourself, if you get my meaning. From your instances: SerNet seems to
> want to change all the binary names to start with sernet, Fedora does
> not want you to use an S4 AD, they want you to use IPA ( I prefer my
> IPA out of a bottle ;-) )
> 
> 
> When I said that samba 3.6 might have to be extended, I was doing so
> with my tongue in my cheek, but unless the distro's get their finger's
> out, we could be in the ludicrous situation that samba 3.6 is
> discontinued but no distro supplies a Samba 4 package or packages to
> replace it

Well, I do wonder if Debian stable might skip Samba 4.0 entirely, and
jump directly to 4.1.

Andrew Bartlett

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