RE: samba broken for Debian/Woody backport for the alpha
fyi, I've been running samba 3.0.6-3 (3.0.6-Debian) on Alpha for more
than 3 months without much problem. I'm running a system installed
with woody(stable) and updated to sarge(testing).
fwiw,
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James D. Freels [mailto:freelsjd@ornl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:51 AM
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: samba broken for Debian/Woody backport for the alpha
>
> Package: samba and related sub-packages
> Version: >= 3.0.6*
>
> Starting at 3.0.6, samba packages backported to Woody (as all previous
> packages had been before) for the Alpha architecture produced
> this bug. I have tried both the 3.0.6* and 3.0.7 series and they both
have this
> bug.
>
> The bug is that the files on a Windows client that show up in the
> directory cannot be displayed, edited, or accessed in any
> way. They are locked out. This basically makes the package totally
unusable.
>
> The package compiles and builds .deb files without any
> alteration of the source as backported from
>
> deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable samba
>
> or alternatively.
>
> deb-src http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/bin-pkgs/Debian/samba3/ stable
> main
>
> These apt-get sources produce reliable packages for versions <=3.0.5
>
> This bug does not appear on the i386 architecture for Debian/Sid
> (unstable) or backported to Debian/Woody (stable). I do not have a
> machine to test Debian/Sid for the alpha for this bug, but I highly
> suspect it does exist.
>
> As a work around, I reinstalled the backported 3.0.5 packages for the
> alpha. I could also revert back to the Woody packages that
> also contain some of the security updates contained up through 3.0.7
> series of samba.
>
> --
> James D. Freels, Ph.D.
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> freelsjd@ornl.gov
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