On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:50:25PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Now, from the package search pages on www.debian.org, the current debian > Samba packages are: > > stable (woody) samba_2.2.3a-12.3 > testing (sarge) samba_2.2.3a-6 > unstable (sid) samba_2.999+3.0.alpha23-4 > > So, my questions are: > > 1. Why does the stable package appear to be more recent than the > testing one? That is indeed odd. Perhaps 2.2.3a-12.3 was a security update, which made it into 3.0r1, but still hasn't filtered into testing? > 2. I assume that Samba 2.2.4 through 2.2.7a made it into, and now out > of, unstable, on the way to 2.999+3.0. Where are they? Gone. Well, from Debian anyway. You can find the on http://snapshot.debian.net/, though. > 3. I assume that the general concensus is that jumping to 2.999+3.0 on > a production server would be unwise? I'd say so, even though it seems like Samba 3.0 is coming up fairly soon. There was a fairly serious bug a couple of weeks ago, but I don't remember the details. If you want/need it, though, then you could certainly use it, or even a straight CVS pull, as long as you test it thoroughly. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: top secret BCCI tempest armed overthrow cracking Aldergrove
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