I didn't look that closely at the 2.2.5 RPM from SuSE. We haven't gotten SLES8 past initial testing, and we don't do printing through the servers anyway.
No, the Samba RPM's are vanilla. Some of my other ones have patches retrofitted, but I don't remember which. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael MacIsaac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] FW: SLES 8 > > > Ken Hall wrote: > > > Samba on SuSE 8.0 is 2.2.5, which is better than 2.2.0a, > but 2.2.8 builds > and runs very nicely. > > But if you build vanilla 2.2.8, you lose the many patches > that SuSE has > applied to 2.2.5. I noticed a file named something like > printing.diff had > over 9000 lines of changes. I didn't do elaborate testing, > but I tried the > *up*loading piece of print drivers described in the SHARE > Samba/print pitch > (see http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE100/s9325mma.pdf). For > me, it worked > with the SLES-8 RPM, but not Samba-2.2.7 (I haven't tried > Samba 2.2.8). > SuSE has patched their Samba-2.2.5 rpm > (samba-2.2.5-71.s390.rpm), which I > believe has the patch to the recent security exposure (it > should, it was a > SuSE developer who found it). I believe you would get that > RPM if you have > support from SuSE (can anyone confirm?). > > > We're supposedly going to be making my hand-built RPM's > available soon > > For Samba, are any of the SuSE patches retrofitted? I know > this can be > tricky work as the package owners may or may not have picked > up the changes > from the distributors, and other code paths diverge. > > -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061 >
