Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:10:26 +0100 From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE> To: Willy Offermans <Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl> Cc: Samba List <samba@lists.samba.org>, tms3@tms3.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba upgrade HowTo requested Message-ID: <E1PTspQ-000SD4-LX@intern.SerNet.DE> In-Reply-To: <20101217102612.GC7694@vpn.offrom.nl> References: <4d0a2fd5.50f.2ce7dc40.5721f9f0@tms3.com> <20101217102612.GC7694@vpn.offrom.nl>
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Willy Offermans wrote: > I do not think that this issue is related to dependencies. Of course I need > to be sure that the dependencies are correctly installed as well, but this > job is accomplished by ``portupgrade -R -N'' quite well. > > No, the real problem lays in the settings and databases created in a > previous version of samba, which will be lost, altered or corrupted upon an > upgrade. To phrase the questions again? > > Is there a procedure on how to upgrade samba to a newer version? > > How can the ignorant user be informed when using portupgrade? > > I'm sorry, I just recall the UPDATING file in /usr/ports/. The > following is a cut from this file: > > <snip> > > 20101026: > AFFECTS: users of net/samba35 > AUTHOR: Timur Bakeyev <timur@FreeBSD.org> > > This is the latest stable release of the Samba3 distribution. It has > been extended with the experimental support of the NFS4-like ACLs on > ZFS partitions, thanks to the sysutils/libsunacl library by Edward > Tomasz Napierala(trasz). This support haven't been tested thoroughly, > so try it on your own risk. This looks interesting. I just did a portsnap fetch update in my FreeBSD 8.1 box, but I don't find that snippet. Where can I find those patches? Volker
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