Re: Updating Samba

From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:00:31 UTC 
On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:52:49 +0200, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>  
wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:35:22 +0200, Carmel <carmel_ny@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering why the ports version of Samba is so far behind
>> the official latest release of this software. Currently, the ports
>> system is only up to version samba 4.13.17_1, released in 2020. The
>> latest official release is Samba 4.16.2 as listed on the samba web site.
>>
>> Is this due to some technical problem? I have Googled but found nothing
>> specific to this matter.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
> iXsystems ported Samba 4.15 for TrueNAS. I don't know why they did not  
> try to get that into the regular ports tree or how much effort it took  
> them to accomplish this. I'll cc the maintainer of them.
>
> root@freenas[~]# pkg info samba
> samba-4.15.7_1
> Name           : samba
> Version        : 4.15.7_1
> Installed on   : Mon May  9 19:39:04 2022 CEST
> Origin         : net/samba
> Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
> Prefix         : /usr/local
> Categories     : net
> Licenses       : GPLv3
> Maintainer     : awalker@ixsystems.com
> WWW            : http://www.samba.org/
> Comment        : Free SMB/CIFS and AD/DC server and client for Unix
>
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.


Also found this PR with some insights and a comment of the maintainer of  
the samba412 and samba413 ports.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263874

Regards,
Ronald.