RE: samba broken for Debian/Woody backport for the alpha
I added testing to my sources list and did an update of everything dselect
selected.
That means not just things necessary to get samba working.
However, it is very stable so far.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James D. Freels [mailto:freelsjd@ornl.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:45 PM
> To: Cernese, Dan
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: samba broken for Debian/Woody backport for the alpha
>
> When you say "updated to sarge", did you update the entire system, or
> just the packages needed to get samba working ? I am trying
> to keep as much of this machine running Woody as possible for QA reasons
(server)
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:08, Cernese, Dan wrote:
> > 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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