On 6 June 2016 at 17:27, Rupert Kolb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying. I was not aware of this.
>
> For the short term I downgraded to an older version of samba4 (to get my
> system running again).
> (And yes, there is an entry in bugzilla for "my" problem. And a link to an
> upstream patch ....)
>
> In the medium term I'm looking for an other distribution:
> It doesn't make sense to have about 10 years of support (in theory), but
> updates just every half year.

It depends on what you are defining as an update because it means
different things. If you are talking about security updates and major
problem updates then it is sooner than 6 months.

> Then I prefer a system
> -- where I have to do upgrades to the next major versions more frequently,
> -- because of merely about 3 years of update support,
> ++ but with a more current update policy
> ++ and an overall more recent software.
>

You are asking a lot for free.



> Rupert
>
>
> Stephen John Smoogen schrieb:
>
>> On 6 June 2016 at 13:00, Rupert Kolb <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> are there any updates for samba4 ?
>>> At the moment in the repo is:
>>> samba4-4.2.10-6.el6_7.x86_64  from 13th of april.
>>>
>>> At download.samba.org is a updated version samba-4.2.12 from 2016-05-02
>>> (one
>>> month ago!)
>>>
>>> As there are some bugs in 4.2.10, which seem to be solved in 4.2.12 (for
>>> instance: 'wbinfo -u' returns no users), I'm really interested in the
>>> updated version !!!
>>>
>> You seem unfamiliar with how Scientific Linux ships software which is
>> causing you some confusion. Scientific Linux (SL) is built from the
>> git source code that Red Hat puts out for its Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
>> Red Hat does periodic updates to its software on a scale of 1 to 2
>> times a year but these upgrades may only backport fixes to the current
>> release number or may do a complete upgrade. [When a RHEL release
>> moves from various production stages which RHEL-6 just did, they only
>> backport major fixes.]
>>
>> So if you need SL to ship samba4-4.2.12 then you need to check to see
>> if there are existing bugs on the issues you need fixed in
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com and also test out whenever RHEL-6.9beta
>> comes out to see if the bug was backported to it. Otherwise you may
>> need to look at Scientific Linux 7 and if it is fixed/updated in SL7.3
>>
>>
>>> Rupert



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.