January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 1m
English
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Appendix B. Downloading Samba with Subversion
In Chapter 2, we showed you how to download the latest stable version of Samba published by the Samba developers. For most purposes (including all production servers), this procedure is sufficient. However, sometime you might want to run a version of Samba that includes the latest bug fixes and features—maybe for research and testing purposes, or just to see what the Samba developers have been up to lately.
The Samba team keeps the latest Samba source code in a Subversion (SVN) repository. SVN is a freely available source configuration management system distributed under an Apache/BSD-style license. You can download the latest subversion release from http://subversion.tigris.org . The Samba team describes various ways to access its own SVN repositories at http://devel.samba.org.
Samba’s SVN tree is broken up into multiple branches, one branch for each development effort. The current list of branches is as follows:
- SAMBA_3_0
This is the branch for all Samba 3.0 development. The code in the tree can undergo major changes between each 3.0.x release. If you want to watch (or participate in) the bleeding edge of Samba 3.0 development, this is the branch to obtain.
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SAMBA_3_0_
XX Each numeric 3.0 release (e.g., 3.0.23) will be assigned a branch for bug fixes (also know as letter releases). For example, the SAMBA_3_0_23 branch was created once version 3.0.23 was publicly available. Developers commit fixes to this tree for inclusion in the next ...
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