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Old 24th July 2008
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by tonytonytony View Post
...is it possible to upgrade a samba installation on OpenBSD with out upgrading the OS itself.
No, & with the following qualifications:
  • OpenBSD 3.6 was released in November 2004. It is no longer supported. Note that version 4.4 will be released November 2008.
  • According to http://www.samba.org, the current stable version is 3.2.0. Version 3.0.28 is available to users of OpenBSD 4.3-release as it is in the 4.3-release ports tree. Version 3.0.30 was checked into OpenBSD's ports tree July 11, 2008, but this is only available to users of 4.4-beta.
Unless you are very well versed in porting software, it is best to stay with what applications are available in OpenBSD's ports tree. Given that a tight coupling exists between the kernel & userland, newer versions of applications cannot be easily retrofitted (if at all...) onto unsupported versions of the operating system, & there will be no official support for such ventures. You will be on your own if you decide to go this route.

If upgrading Samba is a must, you will have to upgrade OpenBSD. The version you are using is nearly four years old.

For more information on third-party applications available to OpenBSD users, study Section 15 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

Last edited by ocicat; 24th July 2008 at 02:22 AM.
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