Author: Graham Bleach Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Bringing a newer version of Samba in to Debian etch?
2008/7/17 David Ramsden <david@???>: > I've got a Debian 4 (etch) server and I need to use Samba version 3.0.30
> or greater. Etch has version 3.0.24.
>
> I see that Debian lenny has version 3.0.30 so I could bring in the .deb
> from lenny in to my etch installation and hope it doesn't break
> anything. Or, I could remove Samba and compile it from source (looking
> at the args it was compiled with in etch).
>
> Just wondering what peoples preferences are? Any tips or hints?
> Upgrading the entire dist to lenny isn't an option either.
I'd go for compiling from source, maybe using the source package from
lenny to build a .deb. Mixing packages from different releases has
always been painful to me.
