Status of samba ports

Carmel NY carmel_ny at outlook.com
Tue Sep 17 14:14:09 UTC 2019


On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:55:00 -0400, Robert Huff stated:
>Andrea Venturoli writes:
>
>>  Sorry for being pedantic, but I believe a lot of us would benefit
>> from some guidance:
>>  _ should we upgrade promptly to 4.10? Will it work or will it be a
>> waste of time?
>>  _ should we stay on 4.8, because it will be the default on FreeBSD
>> for a long time still? And will it be fixed?
>>  _ should we just wait for a (working) 4.11 to come our way? When
>> will this happen?  
>
>	I'd prefer to wait for 4.11, assuming it appears in a
>	reasonable
>time-frame.
>	What would encourage that would be a "migrating for dummies"
>document from 4.8, as I understand this is not a trivial process.

Samba announced the availability of Samba 4.11.0 for download. You
might want to contact the samba port maintainer, timur at FreeBSD.org,
regarding when he plans to release it to the port system.

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Carmel


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